Mulberry Arcade, Chinatown (Photo- Nathaniel Rubel)
A view up Mulberry Street in Newark’s Chinatown. On the left is the Shanghai Restaurant. — Credit: WPA Photographs, NJ State Archives
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Man Playing a Chinese Harp
A man plays a Chinese harp in this unmarked photograph, most likely taken in the early 1900s in Newark’s Chinatown. Newark’s Chinatown flourished between the 1870s and 1920s in the neighborhood around Columbia and Lafeyette Streets, reaching a peak of over 2,000 people of Chinese descent. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Classroom in Chinatown, 1922
A view into a classroom in Newark’s Chinatown in 1922. Newark’s Chinatown flourished between the 1870s and 1920s in the neighborhood around Columbia and Lafeyette Streets, reaching a peak of over 2,000 people of Chinese descent. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Chinatown Store, 1967
Two men pose inside a store in Chinatown in 1967. The City Government tried unsuccessfully in the 1940s to revitalize Newark’s Chinatown, which flourished between the 1870s and 1920s in the neighborhood around Columbia and Lafeyette Streets, reaching a peak of over 2,000 people of Chinese descent. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Sisters in Chinatown, 1964
Sisters Priscilla Eng Wong and Patricia Eng Wong stand outside of the Sun Wo Yuen grocery store and Canton Restaurant on Mulberry Street in 1964. Newark’s Chinatown flourished between the 1870s and 1920s in the neighborhood around Columbia and Lafeyette Streets, reaching a peak of over 2,000 people of Chinese descent. — Credit: Newark Public Library
