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Spring festival booklet of donations to the Wo Hing Society of Lahaina in Maui, Hawaii, 1916. Courtesy of Wo Hing Museum and Cookhouse/Lahaina Restoration Foundation.
Gathering: Festival Donation Booklet
Chinese fortune sticks, ca. 1850s. Courtesy of Temple of Kwan Tai.
Gathering: Fortune Sticks
Checks issued by the First National Bank of Riverside, payable through the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles, 1902. Courtesy of Kevin Akin. To learn more about the Save Our Chinatown Committee, visit: www.saveourchinatown.org.
Gathering: Bank Checks
Sword cane belonging to Ah Quin, ca. mid-1800s. Donated to the San Diego Historical Museum by Jeanie Ming. Courtesy of San Diego Chinese Historical Society and Museum.
Gathering: Sword Cane
Textbooks from the Portland Chinese Language School, ca. 1940s. Donated to Portland Chinatown Museum by Franklin Quan. Courtesy of Portland Chinatown Museum.
Gathering: Chinese Language Textbooks
Wooden sculpture of Jesus by artist Jerome Seu, ca. 1975. Courtesy of Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Museum.
Gathering: Wooden Sculpture
“Manchu Shoes” (aka horsehoof or flowerpot shoes), ca. 1890. Courtesy of Mai Wah Society. Learn more by visiting: www.maiwah.org.
Gathering: "Flowerpot Shoes"
Recreation of Tule Horseshoe, 2019. Created by Patrick Daniel. Courtesy of Locke Foundation.
Gathering: Tule Horseshoe
Stone block used to construct the first level of the Kam Wah Chung & Co. building, late 1800s. Courtesy of Kam Wah Chung State Heritage Site.
Gathering: Kam Wah Chung & Co. Stone Block
Horse collar used by Belle when plowing at the Fong family farm. Courtesy of Chinese History Project.
Gathering: Horse Collar
Teapot from China excavated from Los Angeles’ Old Chinatown archeological site, ca. 1900. Courtesy of Chinese Historical Society of Southern California.
Gathering: Teapot
Architectural model of the Chinese Immigrant Memorial at Mount Hope Cemetery, ca. 1992. Courtesy of Chinese Historical Society of New England.
Gathering: Cemetery Memorial
Charcoal rubbings of historical marker plaque for the Lung Kong Tin Yee Association, 2019. Courtesy of Chinese Historical Society of Memphis and the Mid-South. To learn more, please visit: www.chinesehistoricalsocietyinthemidsouth.wordpress.com
Gathering: Historical Marker Plaque
Postcard of Jake Lee’s painting Laborers Working on the Pacific Railroad created by Kan’s Restaurant in San Francisco, 1963. Courtesy of Chinese Historical Society of America Museum
Gathering: Jake Lee Watercolor Postcard
Cobalt blue altar vessel made for the original Ng Shing Gung Temple, ca. 1892. Courtesy of Chinese Historical & Cultural Project.
Gathering: Altar Vessel
Renewal charter for the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of Augusta, 1949. Courtesy of Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of Augusta. To learn more, visit: ccbaaugusta.com.
Gathering: Charter Renewal
Photographs of Bunkhouse on the Shinn Ranch, ca. 1974. Courtesy of Chinese Bunkhouse Preservation Project. Learn more here: sites.google.com/view/chinese-bunkhouse-preservation/home.
Gathering: Bunkhouse
Arthur M. Tom Sr., herbalist calendar, 1940. Courtesy of Chinese American Museum of Northern California. Learn more here: www.chineseamericanmuseum.com.
Gathering: Herbalist Calendar
Incense sold at the Lama Temple, a recreation of the Golden Temple of Jehol within the Century of Progress International Exposition, Chicago, 1933. Courtesy of Chinese American Museum of Chicago.
Gathering: Incense
Bone repatriation book of the Chong Hou Tong, 1894. Courtesy of China Alley Preservation Society.
Gathering: Bone Repatriation Book
First book of registered members of the Asociación China de Mexicali, 1918. Courtesy of Asociación China de Mexicali.
Gathering: First Book of Reistered Members
Coaching book of Lee Luen Kay, a then 17-year-old Chinese immigrant detained for three weeks at the Angel Island Immigration Station, 1926. Courtesy of Connie Young Yu.
Gathering: A Coaching Book
Nori
Diplomatic Passport
Order to Leave the U.S.
Matthew's Chinese Textbook, "Huanying (Welcome): An Invitation To Chinese"
Chinese Textbook
Kassia's copy of "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung"
Quotations from Chairman Mao
Goodnight Moon
For more information, please visit CHSNE's website: chsne.org
New England Chinese Directory
Sun Wing Wo General Store
The Tenement Museum recreated the Wong family apartment, including the desk, for the Under One Roof tour.
Family Desk
Golden Heels
From the Epoxy Art Group Archive (1982-1992) at the Fales Library & Special Collections at New York University
"36 Tactics" - Art Masks
From the Martin Wong Papers ca. 1982-1999 at the Fales Library & Special Collections at New York University
Food Labels
Adoption Document
Photo credit: California Department of Parks & Recreation, Weaverville Joss House State Historic Park. For more information, visit CINARC's Temple Page: http://www.cinarc.org/Shrines.html.
Daoist Flag Rack
Champion Firehose Team of Deadwood, South Dakota, 1888
Watercolor by Jake Lee
Shipping Crate
Jacket of Just Us Girls
"Just Us Girls: The Kim Loo Sisters"
“Fly to the Freedom” eagle, 1994 Folded paper, papier-mâché, cardboard, glue and colored marker. MOCA Collection 1996.001.049
“Fly to the Freedom” Eagle
Kam Wah Chung & Co. Building. For more information, visit the Oregon State Parks Website here: http://oregonstateparks.org/index.cfm?do=parkPage.dsp_parkPage&parkId=5
Kam Wah Chung & Co. Museum
Grave marker GLGM29 recovered from Evergreen Cemetery. (Courtesy of Chinese Historical Society of Southern California).
Grave Markers
A frontal view of the Memorial Shrine from a photo taken in the 1890s (By permission of the Huntington Library Photo Archives and CHSSC website).
Chinese Memorial Shrine
The Sun Yun Lee. While this image is not dated, the junk worked the fisheries between 1884 (built date) and 1892 (date the vessel was sold). Courtesy of the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, from the Robert A. Nash Collection. Dr. Robert Nash was instrumental in starting the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California in 1975. He spent many years methodically detailing and writing about Chinese fishing activities and watercraft with a specific focus on California-built Chinese junks and sampans.
Chinese junk, the Sun Yun Lee
Li Ling-Ai's Exclusion File
Rancho Cucamonga Chinatown
Here I am with my grandparents at the Empress of China in San Francisco Chinatown. Judging from our attire, we were VIP that night.
Empress of China
The Golden Elixir
A 9-man volleyball competition with the Chinese Youth Club of Washington, D.C., on H Street NW. Photo courtesy of Penny Lee and the Chinese Youth Club Archives
9-Man Volleyball
A photo of me with Wing after his service in WWII: I'm the one in the lower left, not smiling!
My Brother's Legacy
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