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Contains text materials published by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles and/or referencing the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles. This collection includes books, directories, booklets, guidebooks, and program schedules of Chinese American events and businesses of Los Angeles. The majority of the collection consists of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce Yearbooks, Miss Los Angeles Chinatown Programs, and Chinese business directories.

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Includes Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles event programs. Includes the Golden Years Chinatown's 50th Anniversary Celebration, New Chinatown 75th Diamon Anniversary, and the 1990 Chinese Moon Festival. Other organizations evolved in these events include the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, the Los Angeles Chinatown Corporation, Chinatown Merchants Association, and the Chinese Cultural and Community Center of Greater Los Angeles.

Content Description This collection contains 176 photographic prints of 76 unique images taken by L.T. Holman Gotchy, as well as postcards by Gotchy and other unknown photographers, featuring buildings, streets, and residents of Old Chinatown area in Los Angeles. The collection includes photographs taken by Gotchy between 1938 and 1959 and reproduction photographs taken between 1876 and the 1930s by unknown photographers. The photographs capture the exteriors and signage of local businesses such as Jin Hing...

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Includes Miss Los Angeles Chinatown program materials sponsored by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles. Content includes Miss Chinatown events and contestant biographies.

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Contains photocopies of newspaper articles with photographs and a journal issue related to the National Volunteer Activist Award that Wong won in 1979.

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This series is processed at the folder level. Contains articles, including photocopied newspaper articles, a program, planning documents, and an email related to activities and organizations that Wong was involved in including the Reachout Committee for the Los Angeles Music Center and the Chinatown branch of Los Angeles Public Library.

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Contains photocopies of newspaper articles, programs, and a handwritten speech about Wong related to various awards and honors that Wong received herself or that she awarded to others.

Content Description Collection includes materials relating to the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, Chinese Americans, Los Angeles Chinatown, local organizations, and Asian Americans from the 20th century, primarily in the 1970s-1990s, collected by founder and long-time leader of CHSSC Reverend Paul Louie. This includes organizational and event materials, artifacts, newspaper articles, dissertations, and theses on Chinese Americans written between 1940-80s. This collection also contains...

Abstract The Chinese Historical Society of Southern California (CHSSC) and the UCLA Asian Studies Center (AASC) conducted the Southern California Chinese American Oral History Project from 1978 to 1984. They collected 165 oral histories, from which transcripts, summaries, indices, and the book Linking Our Lives: Chinese American Women in Los Angeles were made. This collection contains approximately 1700 pages of transcripts and summaries, in English with small amounts...

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Contains an application, programs, and photocopies of newspaper articles related to the Southern California Volunteer Activist Award that Wong won in 1978. The articles note that she was the only person of Asian heritage chosen for the award.