Tag Archives: Asians

Oct. 10, 1907: The Want Ads

Posted on October 10, 2025 by lmharnisch

October 10, 1907: George Sumi’s Japanese Employment Agency. Most reliable in the city. Continue reading →

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September 21, 1907: 26 Men Deported to China

Posted on September 21, 2025 by lmharnisch

September 21, 1907: 26 men are deported to China, 11of them from Los Angeles. Most Chinese men in Los Angeles have the proper paperwork to be in the United States, an immigration official says. Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on October 29, 2018 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1922 “The Toll of the Sea,” one of the earliest two-strip Technicolor features. Story by Frances Marion, directed by Chester M. Franklin, photographic direction by J.A. Ball, with Anna May Wong, Kenneth Harlan, Beatrice … Continue reading →

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Oct. 10, 1907: The Want Ads

Posted on October 10, 2018 by lmharnisch

This is an encore post from 2006.

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Sept. 21, 1907: 26 Men Deported to China

Posted on September 21, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Sept. 21, 1907 Los Angeles It is one thing to know in the abstract about racial intolerance at the turn of the 20th century and quite another to have to read it … Continue reading →

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May 30, 1907: Hop Chung, Chinese Laundryman, Presses Zoning Case in Court

Posted on May 31, 2018 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2006. May 30, 1907 Los Angeles Hop Chung is in trouble again. Chung, it seems, is no stranger to the legal system, with a police record going back to 1883. Ten years later, … Continue reading →

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June 14, 1908

Posted on June 14, 2008 by lmharnisch

Wilshire and Westmoreland via Google street view Lake and Hoover via Google street view ow if only research led in a straight line — but thankfully, it doesn't. Research corkscrews and jets off at unexpected angles. Today's project was supposed … Continue reading →

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The comics

Posted on May 24, 2008 by lmharnisch

A panel from "Buster Brown," May 24, 1908.

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Feb. 3, 1908

Posted on February 3, 2008 by lmharnisch

 

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Jan. 8, 1908

Posted on January 8, 2008 by lmharnisch

Oil at 40 cents a barrel ($8.36 USD 2006), overcrowded jails,  a road from the San Gabriel Valley to Long Beach (the stirrings of a freeway, perhaps?), a near-lynching and a lady of the stage who had led a colorful … Continue reading →

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