Lion Dance during Chinese New Year celebration in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1928

Title: Lion Dance during Chinese New Year celebration in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1928
Date Created: January 1928
Date: 1928-01
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Chinese men, women, and children, some in costume, observe the Lion Dance on an unpaved street during Chinese New Year along with Mexicans and others.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Bing, Zing, Boom! Happy New Year," Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan 1928: A1.
Two men support the lion costume, spectators obscured by clouds of smoke.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: LOS ANGELES CHINATOWN, CELEBRATIONS, NEW YEAR 1928

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Lion dance--California--Los Angeles
Chinese New Year--California--Los Angeles
Costumes--Chinese
Smoke--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_5854
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cvzgm
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