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Chinese New Year Greetings

January 23, 2012 by Jeff Bridgers

New Years Greeting, Chinatown 1912. Photograph published by Bain News Service, 1912. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.10143

The following is a guest post by Brett Carnell, Acting Head, Technical Services Section, Prints & Photographs Division.

Here’s wishing you a happy Chinese New Year. We usher in the Year of the Dragon with a photo from 100 years ago showing two men toasting the new year in New York’s Chinatown. Running for fifteen days, the Chinese New Year celebration concludes with the Lantern Festival on February 6.

Learn more:

See a variety of photographs capturing
Chinatown in various cities in the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

Learn about the
Chinese experience in America in a unit on immigration provided by the Library of Congress Teacher Resources.

2 Comments

A Nikhwai
January 24, 2012 at 1:35 pm
Happy New Year to the Dragons….
Nicholas
February 1, 2012 at 9:25 am
In the spirit of the new year, top it up with the Chinese (Mandarin) expression for happy new year: “Gong Xi Fa Cai”

Cheers, Nich
http://www.jufito.com

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