File 1 - Detroit 250th Anniversary Parade photos

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CA CHKL F001-S10-1

Title

Detroit 250th Anniversary Parade photos

Date(s)

  • 1951-07-22 - 1951-09-20 (Creation)

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1.5 cm of photographs and textual records

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Name of creator

Jai, Beatrice Yew Wah
(1928 - 2017)

Name of creator

Jai, Raymond Yew Kwong
(1916 - 2004)

Repository

Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library

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File consists of 41 b+w photographs, 2 sheets of textual records and 1 envelope related to the Detroit 250th Anniversary Parade and other events. Records are further divided into following items.

  1. Parade and floats, 15 b+w photographs, themes include lion dance, audience, float for Chinese music, Chinese girls drum corps, Chinese community members wearing traditional clothing in the parade;
  2. Performers in Cantonese Opera costumes, 9 b+w photographs;
  3. At the performance, 10 b+w photographs;
  4. Enlarged group photographs, 7 b+w photographs, 1 page of photo description provided by donor. Persons identified in the photographs (in addition to Beatrice and Raymond Jai) by the donor include Mrs. Lore Lan Fong, Tuey Ping Lee-Hum, Mari Young, Rose Chin, Ho Sing-Wah, Violet Chin (Lum Siew King).
  5. 1 page of obituary of Fon L. Lim (photographer of above photos), 1 large envelope used by Fon L. Lim to mail printed photographs from Detroit to Toronto where Beatrice and Raymond Jai lived at the time (September 20, 1951).

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  • English
  • Chinese

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    beatrice-and-raymond-jai-cantonese-opera-collection.pdf

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    Language(s)

    • English
    • Chinese

    Script(s)

    • Latin
    • Traditional Han

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