Manuscripts
Phoenix Bakery and East West Bank
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Phoenix Bakery
Manuscripts
Early building permits, photographs, deeds and agreements, ephemera including paper hats and menus, stationery, and documents related to the construction of the Phoenix Bakery building at 969 N. Broadway in Los Angeles Chinatown.
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Phoenix Bakery records
Manuscripts
Materials related to the history of Phoenix Bakery, its founder F.C. (Fung Chow) Chan, and head baker Lun F. Chan. Includes documents related to the design and construction of the 969 N. Broadway building; business records; advertisements and press; ephemera including stationery, menus, and employee name tags and clothing patches; photographs; and construction drawings by architect Gilbert Leong and artist Tyrus Wong. Other materials include a small amount of papers related to the founding of East West Bank and some of F.C. Chan's other business interests, and Lun F. Chan's United States Army documents.
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Phoenix Bakery realia
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Phoenix Bakery receipt book, clothing patches, and nametags; a Chinese stamp; and an F.C. Chan Company embossing tool.
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Phoenix Bakery oversize
Manuscripts
Architectural and design plans, including some by Gilbert Leong and Tyrus Wong; oversize photographs, including a photo posterboard of F.C. Chan, Wai Hing, and family; and oversize clippings, some from Chinese newspapers.
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Photographs of bank leadership
Manuscripts
The collection consists mainly of photographs and a small number of contact sheets, negatives, and slides pertaining to the construction and infrastructure of the bank, its leaders, employees, and presumably clients. Of note are images of board members including former Los Angeles city councilman and Mayor Tom Bradley, civil rights leader Reverend Thomas Kilgore, Jr., and Dr. Leroy R. Weekes, founder of the King/Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles. Also included are newspaper clippings; press releases; communications, and resource referral lists; an August 1964 National Association of Real Estate Brokers 17th Annual Convention journal; a Governor's Commission report on the Los Angeles riots; invitations; advertisement printing plates; a 1975 Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC) Achievement Award engraved plaque plate; biographical data on Tom Bradley; a Second Baptist Church First Decade Award certificate and program honoring the bank; as well as a Man of the Year Award program honoring United States Congressman Augustus F. Hawkins. The collection also contains Financial Building Company leases and canceled stock certificates.
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Isna Barrage East Bank. Looking west
Visual Materials
The Aswan Dam Photographs collection contains 28 albums containing more than 1750 black-and-white photographs (most approximately 8 x 10 in. format), documenting the construction of the first Aswan Dam and Asyut Barrage from 1899 to 1902, the first dam heightening from 1907 to 1912, the Isna Barrage from 1907 to 1909, and the second heightening from 1930 to 1933. The images chiefly chronicle progress at the construction sites and depict laborers, masonry work, excavating, the transportation of materials and equipment, and the building of the locks, buttresses, gates, canals, and bridges, with many views of the Nile River. In addition there are images of repairs to the temple at Philae (in Albums 1, 3b, 4, and 12), and some photographs of ceremonies including the H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught laying the foundation stone on February 29, 1908 (Album 10, pages 8-9), and the laying of the final stone with Abbas II Hilmi, the Khedive of Egypt, on February 9, 1909 (Album 5, page 24).The collection consists of both nondescript albums with affixed photographs accompanied by typed or handwritten captions, as well as more formal presentation albums, which include inscriptions of W. L. Lowe Brown, resident engineer at the Asyut Barrage (Album 1); John Aird, whose company constructed the dam (Albums 2, 6, and 8) Murdoch MacDonald, chief engineer beginning in 1902 (Album 3); While most of the albums are limited to photographs and captions, Album 1 and 2 have an eight-page printed preface by William E. Garstin and Albums 5 and 6 have two introductory pages of printed explanatory notes by Murdoch MacDonald. Photographers engaged in documenting the construction and heightening projects were D.S. George (construction of the Aswan Dam and first heightening), F. Fiorillo (first heightening), A. Gianny (viewing of Aswan Dam), A. Marques (first heightening), and other unidentified photographers. Within the materials, there are variant spellings of Aswan including Assuan and Asswan.
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