- Title
- Chinese Gardeners in California
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- Creator
- Reeves; Walter, M. Mission Artist, 230 1/2 S. Spring St. L.A. Cal.
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- Description
- Two Chinese men sitting on a porch surrounded by vines; one is wearing a traditional Chinese hat and holding a long pipe; Chinese hanging lantern; paper with Chinese characters is posted on porch rail; front text reads: Chinese Gardeners in California; front text also includes Chinese characters;
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- Format Extent
- 1 postcard : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm.
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- Subject
- Gardens, Chinese--California--Los Angeles;
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- Note
- At the end of the 19th century , half of the farm hands and 90% of the gardeners in Los Angeles were Chinese. The original Los Angeles Chinatown began in the late 1800s as a small settlement on Calle De Los Negros, between El Pueblo Plaza and Old Arcadia Street, and expanded east across Alameda Street. Suffering from absentee landlords and a lack of municipal services and code enforcement, the area was in decline when the city forced residents out and demolished it to make way for the new Union Station Terminal. Two new Chinatowns were created: China City, a tourist attraction, complete with rickshaw rides, brainchild of Christine Sterling, founder of Olvera Street; and New Chinatown, a business and residential neighborhood created and funded by the Chinese community under the leadership of Peter Soo Hoo. Both opened to great fanfare in 1938.
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- Collection
- Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection
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- Type
- ["Postcards"]
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- Geographic Location
- Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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- Language
- eng; chi
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