Manuscripts

SooHoo family photograph albums

Description: Primarily snapshots of David and Dora SooHoo. Also includes some Mei Wah event photographs.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1920s-1930s
Call number: mssSoohood
Provenance: Gift of Gregory David SooHoo and Debbie F. Lew SooHoo, July 2021.; Gift of Patricia Ann Lem, September 2022.
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David and Dora SooHoo family papers

Manuscripts

Primarily material related to David W. SooHoo (1911-1970), Dora SooHoo (1913-2001), and their families, including family documents, photographs, and artifacts. The collection also includes school notebooks, yearbooks, and other items related to David SooHoo's upbringing as a second-generation Chinese American in Los Angeles. David SooHoo served as director of the Los Angeles Mei Wah Girls' Drum Corps for many years, and the collection contains photographs, clippings, and correspondence related to the group, particularly around the World War II era. Also included are photographs, plans, and promotional material featuring Old Chinatown and New Chinatown, Chinese Presbyterian Church newsletters and anniversary booklets, and other items representing aspects of the Chinese American community in Los Angeles. The collection also contains written and printed Chinese documents that functioned as receipts, business records, essays, menus, and educational texts.

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SooHoo family

Manuscripts

Primarily photographs, including portraits, group photographs, and snapshots of the SooHoo and Tom families. A small amount of SooHoo family material includes business cards and envelopes for the Sang Yuen & Co. store located on Apablasa Street in Old Chinatown, and an 1985 wedding announcement. There are also some photographic postcards of Los Angeles places with the family photographs.

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David and Dora SooHoo

Manuscripts

David SooHoo's school papers, yearbooks, and certificates; wedding announcement and memory book for David and Dora SooHoo.

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Mei Wah Girls Drum Corps

Manuscripts

Photographs, clippings, correspondence, and mementos related to Mei Wah Girls Drum Corps. Most correspondence concerns invitations to perform at parades, public celebrations, and other events.

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Photographs, 1883-2005

Manuscripts

Includes Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association; Mei Wah Girls Drum Corps; Chinese Moon Festival; Glee club; and Chinatown and New Chinatown.

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Family album

Visual Materials

An album of 57 photographs of Edward Dalziel's extended family and their home in Hampstead. "Hampstead" is written under some images. Some informal outdoor portraits of Dora and Grace Dalziel (perhaps taken by each other), and their brothers, Charles, Gilbert, and Wilfrid. One group portrait of men and women with tennis rackets, and a Mr. Cunningham and Hal Ludlow. One mounted photograph in album of a very elderly man in slippers, possibly George or Edward Dalziel? Photographs most likely taken by Dora and Grace Dalziel.

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SooHoo family photograph albums

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