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Wendy Horowitz, May 20, 2024
Photographer Harry Quillen loved the circus, and during the 1940s, he enthusiastically captured the light-hearted spirit of the traveling show with his large format camera.
Vi Thục Hà, May 17, 2024
Long-time visitors of Chinatown will be very familiar with the storefront with Sing Song, a Tyrus Wong (1910-2016) drawn logo of a bashful little boy in a traditional Chinese haircut with a robe holding a box behind his back
, May 13, 2024
Dr. Leana Wen (pronounced Lee-nah) is an emergency physician and nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Kelly Wallace, March 14, 2019
The Big Read this year is The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu.
![New Year lion in New Chinatown, [ca 1940s]. Harry Quillen Collection New Year lion in New Chinatown](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/blog_latest_list_120x90/public/blogs/2024-05/harry-quillen-header.jpg?itok=TZKdcwVo)


![Drawing of a scene from Chinatown, Los Angeles, from the book: Eine Blume aus dem Goldenen Lande; oder, Los Angeles, by Archuke Ludwig Salvador, [1878]. Security Pacific National Bank Collection Drawing of a scene from Chinatown, Los Angeles](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/blog_latest_list_120x90/public/blogs/2025-08/chinatownheader.png?itok=WNbiQkry)