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Boy Scouts, 1919-1982
Series
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents
This series contains Boy Scout documents and memorabilia. The materials are mostly comprised of correspondence with troop members and the Boy Scout headquarters; accounting ledgers; Boy Scout letterhead; Boy Scout newsletters; one Boy Scout magazine; sketches and drawings; newspaper clippings; official Boy Scout graphics (images for rowing, nature, drafting, etc.); specific Troop 150 information (address lists and activity reports); and awards.
Dates:
1919-1982
Business documents, 1921-1969
Series
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents
The documents in this series include tax reciepts, bills, inventory lists, local credit sales accounts, client sales accounts, check books, receipts, permits, business cards, and other financial records. In addtion, there are account books for restaurants outside of New York City, from 1921-1942, and an account book for donations to WWII funds (1946).
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1921-1969
Interview with Sylvia Seid, 2003
Item
Identifier: 2015.007.015
Abstract
Sylvia Seid is the sister in law and wife of the men who founded what is now considered a Chinatown cultural trademark - The Chinatown Ice-cream Factory. Of Peruvian and Chinese descent, Seid describes her upbringing and her childhood growing up in Peru and the States. She also discusses the evolution of the ice-cream business from the late 1970s to the early twentieth century and how it has transformed from being the once tourist destination to the now localized sweet-treat icon it is known...
Dates:
2003
Newspapers
Series
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents
The document in this series is a newspaper clipping.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1921-1969
Oral History Interview with Agnes Chan, 2008
File
Identifier: 2008.041.001
Abstract
In 1980, Agnes Chan graduated at the top of her Police Academy class and became the NYPD’s first Asian female officer. In this position, she sought to build bridges between the Asian community and the police department. Promoted to Detective rank in 1984, Chang served 20 years in the NYPD, including Chinatown’s 5th precinct. She retired in 2000.Chan initially went to John Jay College with the vision of going to law school but after an internship in Chinatown, she decided to join...
Dates:
2008
Oral History Interview with Alice Young, 2004-07-01
File
Identifier: 2014.036.019
Abstract
Alice Young is a career teacher and principal who has lived most of her life in Brooklyn. She begins the interview by sharing the story of her family’s immigration to the United States and about her family’s laundry business. Alice reminisces about her childhood and school life leading up to her time at Brooklyn College, where she studied to become an elementary school teacher. As an NYC school teacher, she worked in different boroughs including Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. She...
Dates:
2004-07-01
Oral History Interview with Anne Ho, 2013-02-15
Item
Identifier: 2013.022.001
Abstract
Anne Ho is a longtime resident of Chinatown in New York City. Ho reflects on how her family moved to the United States and her early childhood growing up in Chinatown. She discusses the garment factory her mother worked at along with her daily routine living in Chinatown. She continues the discussion of garment factories by stating their importance of Chinatown during her childhood along with how Chinatown has changed overall. She then goes to discuss the development of Confucius Plaza and...
Dates:
2013-02-15
Oral History Interview with Bert Feinberg, 2008-12-21
Item
Identifier: 2008.040.006
Abstract
Bert Feinberg, native to Brooklyn and long-term resident of New York, describes his experiences in Chinatown and the block often referred to as the Daily Forward block, colloquially named after the Yiddish Daily Forward newspaper. There, Feinberg was employed at a family-owned catering and restaurant business called the Garden Cafeteria. During his time at the Cafeteria between 1949 and 1974, he saw significant demographic changes in the neighborhood. Feinberg initially estimates that the...
Dates:
2008-12-21
Oral History Interview with Betty Sze, 2007-10-25
Item
Identifier: 2008.040.008
Abstract
Betty Sze discusses her vague memory of spending her early childhood playing outside of the Grand Machinery Exchange building, which was located on Centre Street. Her father owned a produce wholesale supply company, while her mother worked in factories. In her interview, she describes gentrification in terms of rent-prices consistently rising, developers becoming more aggressive in planning building projects, and entire neighborhoods such as Little Italy, being taken over by Chinese...
Dates:
2007-10-25
Oral History Interview with CAAV Youth, 2008-02-06
Item
Identifier: 2008.040.001
Abstract
CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities is a nonprofit community outreach organization dedicated to empowering poor and working class Asian immigrants and refugees in New York City. In this interview, four high school-aged summer interns at CAAAV describe their contributions to a map project that documents the Chinatown landscape. Through excursions in Chinatown, interviews with local residents, and extensive research, these students analyzed the force of gentrifications in New Yorks Lower East...
Dates:
2008-02-06
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