Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Letter from Ray A. Myers, of Myers Bros. General Building Contractors, to Peter SooHoo informing him that Myers Brothers is committing to $100 in advertising for New Chinatown in the Los Angeles Examiner.
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Letter from Peter SooHoo, Chinatown Project Association, to the Board of Water and Power Commissioners, Los Angeles, concerning water supply for New Chinatown.
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Letter from Max G. Linder, President of the Foreign Trade Association of Southern California, to Peter SooHoo acknowledging receipt of letter. SooHoo had written Linder concerning Christine Sterling's activities following a conversation SooHoo's wife had Linder. Linder expresses interest in The New Chinatown proposition and asks for more information.
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Two drafts of a letter from Peter SooHoo to Joe Shoong,with manuscript corrections, concerning Shoong's decision not to purchase property in New Chinatown.
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Letter from SooHoo to Shoong discussing the possibilityof his buying into the New Chinatown project. The enclosure is a letter from Herbert Lapham to Peter SooHoo discussing the sale of land.
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Letter from Peter SooHoo, Secretary of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, to Louis B. Mayer, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios. SooHoo writes to Mayer concerning the information that props from the movie the Good Earth are being sent to Sterling's China City. SooHoo explains the efforts of the Chinese-American community to build their New Chinatown, and he asks that Mayer attention be drawn to their efforts.
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