Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
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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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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Letter from Ray Myers to Peter SooHoo concerning some continuing construction matters in Chinatown.
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Letter from Joe Shoong to Peter SooHoo, informing SooHoo that he, Shoong, had lunch with Frank McLaughlin, Head of the Work Projects Administration in California, and filled him in on the New Chinatown project. Shoong suggests that when Mclaughlin is in Los Angeles that SooHoo and Adrian Wilson meet with him. There may be WPA funds available.
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Letter from John Anson Ford, Supervisor, Third District, Board of Supervisors, County of Los Angeles, to Peter SooHoo reconfirming his acceptance of the invitation to the opening of New Chinatown.
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