Frank Moy, the ‘mayor of Chinatown’, celebrates the Chinese New Year with children in Chicago, 1934
Chinese Americans
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