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Description: Photographs of Chinatown in Los Angeles (Items 58-132) depict parades and festivities including the first Fiesta de Los Angeles (1894) and the Feast of the Dead in Los Angeles (1902); street scenes including views of people and of businesses, such as the the Los Angeles Hay Market (Items 83-84); a glimpse of the Water Department on Marchessault Street (Item 86); the Mon Chong and Company storefront on Apablasa Street, one with Percival's mother in front (Items 102-103); the Guan Sun Company and Chop Suey Café; views of a parade and of Marchessault Street dated 1929 (Items 123-128); and photographs depicting Chinese graves and a Chinese tomb in the Evergreen Cemetery (Items 129-133).
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1880-1941 (bulk approximately 1899-1939).
Call number: photCL 217
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

North Los Angeles Street, Old Chinatown, Los Angeles

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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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Scenes in Chinatown, Los Angeles

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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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Subseries D. Los Angeles, Cemeteries, Views

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The photographs depict the Calvary Cemetery at Buena Vista and North Broadway, the Fort Hill Cemetery, and the San Gabriel Mission Cemetery; most are dated 1922. A few photographs depict the tomb of Dr. Richard Den, who had served as chief physician and surgeon for Mexican forces in the Mexican American war treating Californios and American prisoners from 1821-1895 and then practiced medicine in Los Angeles; and nearby graves (Items 348-351). Other graves depicted include Maria F. M. De Abila (Item 352); Antonio Coronel, who served as mayor of Los Angeles from 1853-1854 and owned Rancho Los Feliz, now Griffith Park (Items 353-354); and the tombs of Jose Sepulveda and Pio Pico (Items 365-369). Percival's caption for the Garnier burial plot describes its "lovely design/iron fence," and one photograph of Coronel's tomb shows an adjacent oil well (Item 353).

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798 & 802 Juan St

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View of attached brick two-story buildings, one with potted plants on balcony, on Juan Street, as viewed from Marchessault Street, in Old Chinatown, Los Angeles. Storage tanks of the Los Angeles Gas and Electric Corporation are in the background.

photCL 502 (45)

321,323, 323 1/2 Marchessault St

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View of two-story attached brick buildings on Marchessault Street in Old Chinatown, Los Angeles. There are signs on the wall advertising Steam Pressing and "For Rent." A paneled truck sits on the street advertising a noodle mfg. co.

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313 1/2-319 Marchessault St

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View of two-story attached brick buildings, with balconies and drying laundry, on Marchessault Street in Old Chinatown, Los Angeles, with a pedestrian and men in an automobile.

photCL 502 (54)

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