Reverend Ng Poon Chew inside Presbyterian Chinese mission at 128 Wilmington Street (later renamed San Pedro Street). Psalms and Hymns (Praise of the Land) hanging on walls. Reverend Ng Poon Chew stands with four other men around him. "The Congregational Chinese Mission School in Los Angeles. Note the proudly assimilated look of the fellow on the far right, complete with vest and watch chain, from the C.C. Pierce Collection, Historical Photographs."
Reverend Ng Poon Chew inside Presbyterian Chinese mission at 128 Wilmington Street (later renamed San Pedro Street). Psalms and Hymns (Praise of the Land) hanging on walls. Reverend Ng Poon Chew stands with four other men around him. "The Congregational Chinese Mission School in Los Angeles. Note the proudly assimilated look of the fellow on the far right, complete with vest and watch chain, from the C.C. Pierce Collection, Historical Photographs."
Reverend Ng Poon Chew inside Presbyterian Chinese mission at 128 Wilmington Street (later renamed San Pedro Street). Psalms and Hymns (Praise of the Land) hanging on walls. Reverend Ng Poon Chew stands with four other men around him. "The Congregational Chinese Mission School in Los Angeles. Note the proudly assimilated look of the fellow on the far right, complete with vest and watch chain, from the C.C. Pierce Collection, Historical Photographs."
Reverend Ng Poon Chew inside Presbyterian Chinese mission at 128 Wilmington Street (later renamed San Pedro Street). Psalms and Hymns (Praise of the Land) hanging on walls. Reverend Ng Poon Chew stands with four other men around him. "The Congregational Chinese Mission School in Los Angeles. Note the proudly assimilated look of the fellow on the far right, complete with vest and watch chain, from the C.C. Pierce Collection, Historical Photographs."
"Chinese workers replace the Indians as the chief manual labor in South California agriculture. They were in turn replaced by the Japanese after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Acts in 1882 and 1892." Courtesy Title Insurance and Trust Company, Los Angeles. Four Chinese agricultural laborers in front of sacks of produce.