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Photo Id# AAB-7165
Title [Chinatown Fashion Show at the Chinese playground at Sacramento and Stockton streets] [graphic].
Date 1939.
Description 1 photographic print: b&w.
Location Folder: S.F. Districts-Chinatown-Festivals-1939.
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: "By popular demand, Chinatown will repeat its colorful all-Chinese Fashion show at the Chinese playground at Sacramento and Stockton Streets on Thursday (Feb. 16) at 8 p.m. as part of the festivities celebrating the World's Fair Premiere. The fashion show - strategy by Miss Alice P. Fong has a cast of 50 beautiful Chinese girls - wearing the costumes and dresses most favored by Chinese women from the T'ang dynasty down to the present day. Miss Daisy Kwong will act as commentator. The program will begin at 7 p.m. with Chinese musical numbers. Left to right: May Lum, Patricia Joe (with sword), Pearl Fong, Florence Yip, Annie Tom and Bertha Lew."
Subject San Francisco (Calif.) -- Photographs.
Festivals -- California -- San Francisco.
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)
Series San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection