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Chinatown in Philadelphia, PA with Chinese blade signs and people congregated together. The most prominent sign is a yellow sign with red lettering that reads, "L & W RENT FAIR VIDEO / 50 N. 10TH STREET / PHILADELPHIA PA 19107" in English with…

Community organizers signing a petition for coordinated action in Chinatown.

Black and white photograph of five women on a stage, playing music and dancing in traditional dress.

Four musicians sing and play the drums on the flatbed of a truck during a parade. Sign on the truck reads "The People[...] Tribun[e]"

Seven performers, three women and two men, are onstage. Five, all wearing white, are lined up at the very back of the stage. Two are forward from the line, a man in white wearing a cloth bag, head bowed, and a woman barefoot wearing a blue patterned…

Five individuals (some in costume) dance, play the drums, and hold objects aloft during a parade. (Possibly performing a Concheros or Chichimecas dance, a pre-Hispanic and pre-Christian Mexican dance ceremony)

Often in archival photographs, there are images where the person or event cannot be identified. While there are elements of the photos that are unidentifiable, there is still a lot of information that can be drawn from these sources. Two particular…

A woman performer, barefoot in traditional dress, speaks into a microphone on a stand as she holds a small gong suspended on rope and a mallet in her left hand. She wears a white undershirt with three-quarter sleeves under a floor-length colorful…

Black and white photograph of three performers in traditional dress. Two of the performers kneel on the stage, while the third performer plays a drum behind them.

Black and white photograph of a woman standing on a stage and speaking into a microphone. Three performers in traditional dress are posed behind her, one of which is playing a drum.