Manuscripts

Chinatown businesses

Description: Guides and directories for Chinatown businesses. Also some photocopies of photographs and clippings, candles and a small china plate.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1940s-1990s
Call number: mssLeong
Provenance: Gift of Leslee See Leong, February 2020.
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Chinatown businesses

Manuscripts

Materials related to Chinatown business and tourism, including maps, telephone directories, business cards, souvenir books, theatre programs, and dining guides. Some items related to San Francisco Chinatown.

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Chinatown businesses

Manuscripts

Account books for Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association and other Chinatown businesses, entirely in Chinese. All have been dated and several have been identified as "mysterious company" by the donor.

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Chinatown history

Manuscripts

Items related to Los Angeles Chinatown history, particularly the demolition of the Lugo Adobe and other areas of Old Chinatown, and the dedication of Union Station. Includes clippings, poll tax receipts, business directories and pamphlets, and publicity about Chinese New Year celebrations from 1960s. Also includes photos of Old Chinatown, including Ferguson Alley.

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Chinatown and Chinese community

Manuscripts

Photographs, clippings, artifacts, and other items related to Los Angeles Chinatown and its history, including the demolition of Old Chinatown, and the Chinese community in Los Angeles. Some materials related to San Francisco Chinatown, and the larger Chinese community in the United States.

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Old Chinatown and Chinese community

Manuscripts

Photographs and clippings of Old Chinatown, and other items related to the Chinese community, including Madame Chiang Kai-Shek's visit to Los Angeles in 1943.

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Family businesses

Manuscripts

Business documents, publicity, advertising, correspondence, photographs, and other materials related to the Leong and See family businesses in Los Angeles Chinatown and elsewhere in the city. Includes items related to the See family's F. Suie One Co. and F. See On import business and antiques stores, and Dragon's Den restaurant, and the restaurants run by the Leong family: Chinese Garden and Soochow.

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