Name/Title
Chinese Dragon Dance, Chinatown, San Francisco, Calif.Entry/Object ID
CHSA-04440Scope and Content
Color. Photo. SF; Parades: A night scene of a green dragon with a red and white trim that is on the street carried by men with colorful pants, another man is carrying a ball on a stick leading the dragon.
Front: Caption: "Chinese Dragon Dance. Chinatown. San Francisco. Calif.-31." Back: Info. Text: "Chinese New Years', usually in February, lures all of San Francisco's 20,000 Chinese residents for a week long celebration, which includes feasts of the lanterns, religious ceremonies and the famous Dance of the Dragon. The huge silken creature, carried by dozens of young men, parades through the streets of the district, by day and by night."