SF Public Library -- Historical Photographs

Photo Id#	AAB-6978
Title	[Six women comparing fabrics to be worn in an annual benefit for St. Mary's Catholic Chinese Social Center] [graphic].
Date	1942 May 8.
Description	1 photographic print: b&w.
Location	Folder: S.F. Districts-Chinatown-People.
Reproduction Rights	Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library: www.sfpl.org/permissions.
Notes	Written on back: "FESTIVAL TO FEATURE ORIENTAL SONGS DANCES AND FASHION PROMENADE. Young ladies of San Francisco's Chinatown compare the fine fabrics they are to wear in special costumes in their featured musical attractions tomorrow (Fri) night, at the annual benefit Festival for St. Mary's Catholic Chinese Social Center in the Fairmont Hotel. Left to right, the young ladies are the Misses Sybil Lum, Flora Lee, Katherine Lee, Lily Soo Hoo, Virginia Wong and Marie Chan."
	Written on back: "The Catholic daughter group of St. Mary's Chinese Mission are kept busy these days preparing for their display of an ancient Chinese pageant with all its ritualistic ceremony which will take place Fri. evening May 8th. Fairmont Hotel 8:00 p.m. for benefit of the mission."
Subject	San Francisco (Calif.) -- Photographs.
	Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)
Series	San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Source	San Francisco Call Bulletin.
	San Francisco News-Call Bulletin.