Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visual Materials
A composite photograph of six street scenes in Old Chinatown in Los Angeles, California, showing Chinese men and women in traditional clothing walking in the street, as well as one image of a man standing amid laundry.
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View of a street in old Chinatown, Los Angeles.
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Manuscripts
Photographs and photographic postcards of Old Chinatown and New Chinatown, newsletters and photographs of the Chinese Presbyterian Church, and other items related to Los Angeles Chinatown, including newspaper clippings, events programs from the 1920s-1940s, a promotional photograph album from the 1930s, and promotional material from the 1980s.
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Elevated view of one-story and two-story adobe buildings in the Old Chinatown neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles, California, with horse-drawn wagons in the dirt courtyard. Presumably the buildings were located near or in the Calle de los Negros (also known as "Nigger Alley").
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Elevated view of the dirt road, horse-drawn wagons, and storefronts along the Calle de los Negros (also known as "Nigger Alley") in Old Chinatown in Los Angeles, California, with a sign for "J. Kennedy" in the shape of a horseshoe at right.
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View of a row of two-story buildings with balconies in the 500 block of North Los Angeles Street in Old Chinatown, Los Angeles, with signs for "Fook Wo Lung Curio Co." and "Chew Fun & Co. Chinese Herbs" visible and an automobile parked at the street curb. The Hop Sing Tong Society headquarters was located at 520 1/2 N. Los Angeles Street. The buildings face the Los Angeles Plaza (not pictured) and the central building (with three dormer windows) was built for Don Vicente Lugo and known as the Lugo Adobe.
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