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The Cash Register
Chow Family Cash Register
This is the dough for the dumpling skin
Dumplings
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
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