Calle de Los Negros in Chinatown, Los Angeles, ca.1900-1930

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Photograph of Calle de Los Negros (Negro Alley, colloquially referred to as "Nigger Alley" at the time) in Chinatown, Los Angeles, ca.1900-1930. A YMCA can be seen along the shopfront lining the right side of the street, above which the Upper Room Mission is situated. Telephone poles line the sidewalk, extending to the distance in the left of the photo, where an automobile is parked by several pedestrians. A white man in a hat and suit stands in the foreground at right, his hands on his hips.

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Title Calle de Los Negros in Chinatown, Los Angeles, ca.1900-1930

Subject Chinese Americans (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Chinatown (file heading), Los Angeles -- Plaza #6 -- Streets -- Calle de los Negroes (file heading), roadways (adlf), Stores, Retail (lcsh), Streets (lcsh), Upper Room Mission (subject), Young Men's Christian Association (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place "Nigger Alley" (roadway), California (states), Calle de los Negroes (roadway), Chinatown (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900/1930

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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 1900/1930

Creator C.C. Pierce & Co. (photographer)

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-m2158

Identifier 6686 (accession number), CHS-6686 (call number), CHS-6686 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3091 (legacy record id), chs-m2158 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-2218 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-3983 (legacy record id), 1-15-79 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3091

Unique identifier UC120435

Legacy Identifier CHS-6686.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.4 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
44.2 cm × 34.5 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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