Interior of a Chinese shop at New Year's

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Photograph of the interior of a Chinese shop decorated for the New Year's Celebration. Four men are gathered (2 standing, 2 sitting) about a small table on which flowers and other objects sit. The men are all wearing dark traditional Chinese garb with skullcaps. A picture of a Chinese noble hangs above the table. Behind the wooden counter at left are shelves bearing the wares of the shop.

Asset Metadata

Title Interior of a Chinese shop at New Year's

Subject Chinese Americans (lcsh), Chinese New Year (lcsh), commercial sites (adlf), Minorities -- Chinese (file heading), Stores, Retail (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1900

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10300

Identifier 2108 (accession number), CHS-2108 (call number), CHS-2108 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-12443 (legacy record id), chs-m10300 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-10445 (legacy record id), 1-230- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 12443

Unique identifier UC132238

Legacy Identifier CHS-2108.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.7 in × 15.5 in at 300dpi
50.1 cm × 39.5 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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