Manuscripts
Chinese Tuxedo Restaurant papers
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Chinese Tuxedo Restaurant papers
Manuscripts
Collection includes a bilingual menu in English and Chinese, illustrated with photos of the restaurant and staff. There is also a postcard featuring a photo of the restaurant interior, and a handwritten party invitation card to dinner at the restaurant, from "Mess Tom Mon Kip, Tom Ming, Tom Ying, and Der-Foo Sam."
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Rice Bowl, restaurant menu
Manuscripts
Menu from the Rice Bowl restaurant, 949 Sun Mun Way, New Chinatown. The back of the menu promotes the restaurant and the bar, the The Temple of Heaven Cocktail Lounge.
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Golden Pagoda, restaurant menu
Manuscripts
Menu from the Golden Pagoda restaurant, 464 Gin Ling Way, New Chinatown. A promotional flyer has been inserted into the menu.
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Original Coppa's Restaurant : wine list
Manuscripts
Wine list from Original Coppa's Restaurant bound in gilt-stamped red leather boards. Handwritten not on front pastedown: "Buttsky. Earthquake dinner at Coppa's, Farewell to Mrs. P. Newberry Monday May 7, 1906 by candlelight." Signed by 12 people on the first page of the wine list, including: Herman Whitaker (1867-1919), Elsie Whitaker Martinez (1890-1984), Xavier Martinez (1869-1943), Agnes Foster Buchanan, Porter Garnett (1871-1951), James Hopper (1876-1956) and Henry Anderson Lafler.
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Nixon's restaurant (exterior and kitchen shots)
Visual Materials
Nixon's restaurant (exterior and kitchen shots) - [with 21 variants]. Nixon's Family Restaurant was owned and operated by Francis Donald Nixon, known as Donald, the young brother of President Richard M. Nixon. Donald eventually owned five restaurants, including this restaurant and a drive-thru burger stand in Whittier.
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Three Chinese men inside a restaurant
Visual Materials
This collection contains photographs of Los Angeles' Old Chinatown and portraits of its Chinese residents, most dating from the 1890s to the 1900s. Together there are 299 glass plate negatives ranging in size from 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches to 8 x 5 inches; an ornate photograph album containing 12 studio portraits of Chinese men and women; and six additional card photograph portraits. Some printed photographs have the imprints of professional photographers and a few of the glass plate negatives are credited to "Yee Photo, L.A. Cal." They may be connected to a photographer "Yee" who at one time had a studio at 510 North Los Angeles Street in Old Chinatown (see photograph Box 8 (1)). This could possibly be Wy Yee, a photographer working during the same time period. It is unclear if he took all the photographs or there was more than one photographer. There are two glass plate images of a photographer's storefront with a sign in Chinese that translates to Jinghua Photo Studio. Scenes in Old Chinatown include: street views of buildings and storefronts; Chinese and a few white people walking in the streets; the interior of a restaurant and three Chinese workers posing for the camera; two men on bicycles; the Chinese community participating in La Fiesta de las Flores parade; and other candid photographs of people in daily activities. Some buildings have store signs in English and Chinese. The majority of photographs are portraits of primarily Chinese sitters. Several are posed studio portraits of men, women, or children, wearing traditional Chinese or western clothing, with elaborate props and backdrops. Other portraits are simple head shots of Chinese men, one of which has the handwritten date "1902," the year that the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was made permanent and required Chinese residents to register and obtain immigration documents. Other photographs include: three studio images of women showing bare shoulders, a Chinese woman posing in a sailor's uniform, and white tourists posing in traditional Chinese clothing. Photographer imprints on card photographs are: Bijou Studio, James Blanchard, George Dewey, J. H. Lamson Company, Michael A. Wesner, and "Yee," who may be photographer Wy Yee, all of Los Angeles. There is one portrait of a Chinese woman by William Shew, San Francisco. The China subseries consists of copies of photographs taken in China, including landmarks and scenes of punishment. Please note that this subseries contains historical images that library users may find harmful, offensive, or inappropriate. Miscellaneous photographs include images of Native Americans and a town in the Southwest.
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