
Frank Moy, the ‘mayor of Chinatown’, celebrates the Chinese New Year with children in Chicago, 1934
Frank Moy, the ‘mayor of Chinatown’, celebrates the Chinese New Year with children in Chicago, 1934
orientallyyours: Chinese Humiliation Parade, May 10, 1938. New York City. Photographer: Peter Stackpole for LIFE Magazine. Twelve thousand Chinese Americans from all parts of New York City, Newark, Jersey City, […]
The first Chinese on record arrived in Los Angeles in 1852, but by 1910 Old Chinatown had grown to cover approximately 15 streets. In 1931, a California Supreme Court decision […]
Tam Yuk-lan, the Great Star’s (a theater in San Francisco’s Chinatown) first bathing beauty seated on table, 1920s
two singing stars of Forbidden City, a San Francisco nightclub of the 1930’s and 1940’s which featured Chinese Americans entertainers