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Sweet Potato & Ginger Soup
Sweet Potato & Ginger Soup
Parents' suitcase
Blue Funnel Line Suitcase
Blank menu
Main Cafe
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
Teapot from China excavated from Los Angeles’ Old Chinatown archeological site, ca. 1900. Courtesy of Chinese Historical Society of Southern California.
Gathering: Teapot
Bow Wah watch cleaner
Sun May Company
Order to Leave the U.S.
For more information, please visit CHSNE's website: chsne.org
New England Chinese Directory
Golden Heels
Grandma Ou Shee immigrated in Nov 1920
Ou Shee Exclusion Act File
Champion Firehose Team of Deadwood, South Dakota, 1888
Watercolor by Jake Lee
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
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
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
Snowfall and accumulation at a local park. (Sunset Park)
Snow
Vintage CICF Shirt
Photo credit: Seaver Center for Western History Research, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History
Mee Wo Chong Store
Father's first family picture
Wok
Wok
Arch above Chinatown in D.C.
piggybank
Jaded
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