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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
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America
Oral History Interview with Alice Yip, February 17, 1989
File
Identifier: 1989.023.001
Abstract
This oral history, conducted in Cantonese with Alice Yip, was part of a greater effort by MOCA to research and record the history of Chinese Americans in the garment industry and was possibly conducted as part of MOCA’s research for its 1989 exhibition, “Both Sides of the Cloth.” Alice Yip, who grew up in Hong Kong, immigrated to the Netherlands in 1970 and then to the United States in 1976. She went to work immediately in the garment industry in New York Chinatown the day after arriving....
Dates:
February 17, 1989
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America
Oral History Interview with Alice Young, Joseph Eng, Tom & Helen Wong, 1983-12-3
Item
Identifier: 1983.004.001
Abstract
This combined interview includes conversations with Alice Young, Joseph Eng Young, Tom Wong, and Helen Wong. The topics covered include their immigration story coming to the United States from China, family life, their education, and careers. Joseph and Tom provide insights into the Chinese restaurant industry in New York Chinatown during the 1920s and 30s. Helen describes the types of discrimination she and her family faced as Chinese living and working in the United States. Alice shares...
Dates:
1983-12-3
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America
Oral History Interview with Cora May Chin, July 6, 1983
File
Identifier: 1983.004.002
Abstract
Growing up, Cora May Chin (née Chu, born 1927) lived with her parents and two sisters at 47 Mott Street, above the apartments of her paternal grandparents and large extended family. Her father, Farn B. Chu, was a doctor with a medical practice on the third floor of the same building, and her grandfather, Chu Fook (Ng Yee Foke), was a proprietor of Mon Hing Co., a wholesale restaurant supply and grocery store at 19 Pell Street. Her mother, Mary York Tsui, taught at Chinese school, which Cora...
Dates:
July 6, 1983
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America
Oral History Interview with Daniel Chu, February 18, 1982
File
Identifier: 1982.002.001
Abstract
Daniel Chu was born in Kohanaiki, Hawaii in 1914, the tenth child in a large family of eight boys and four girls. His father’s parents were Hakka and had first migrated to Trinidad or Jamaica in the 1870s to work on rice or sugar plantations. After their contracts ended, they sent his father, who was eight years old at the time, back to their home village in Guangdong Province. When he was eighteen, they sent for him to join them where they had settled in Honolulu, Hawaii. Daniel’s mother...
Dates:
February 18, 1982
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America
Oral History Interview with Dr. Paul Chu, March 30, 1990
File
Identifier: 1990.015.005
Abstract
This interview with Dr. Paul Chu (b. 1925) was conducted by an NYU graduate student who was working with the Chinatown History Project (now MOCA) to collect stories for a workshop on earlier generations of Italian American and Chinese American students at PS 23 (Public School 23). Paul, a dentist and longtime resident of Chinatown, grew up in Oakland’s Chinatown and moved to New York in the 1930s with his parents at the age of 8 or 9. His grandfather, a merchant in San Francisco, was the...
Dates:
March 30, 1990
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America
Oral History Interview with Guo-Gan Yan, 2004-03-08
File
Identifier: 2014.036.025
Abstract
Mr. Guo-Gan Yan is an immigrant who arrived in the United States from Guangdong, China in the 1990s in search of better educational opportunities for his daughter. Yan describes his life and career in Guangdong before immigrating. He details aspects of life in China related to recreation and work habits and compares it to his life in the United States. Yan also describes the effects of the 9/11 Terrorist attacks on his job as a restaurant worker in Chinatown, and the assistance he received...
Dates:
2004-03-08
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America
Oral History Interview with Ho Ying Pang, 2008-03-14
Item
Identifier: 2008.040.019
Abstract
Pang Ho Ying was born in Taishan, China, but grew up and spent a large portion of his life in Hong Kong until he moved to New York with his wife in 1988. Interestingly, his family was divided on both the East and West coasts: he and his two brothers settled in New York, while his two sisters moved to San Francisco. Pang vaguely remembers his first impression of New York upon his arrival as relatively less modern than Hong Kong, claiming that Chinatown appeared backwards since it lacked the...
Dates:
2008-03-14
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America
Oral History Interview with Lana Cheung, 2008-02-25
Item
Identifier: 2008.040.026
Abstract
Lana Cheung emigrated with her husband from Hong Kong to the United States in 1987. Shortly after her arrival to New York, she remembers being initially surprised by the differences between Chinatown and Hong Kong, particularly in the contrasting architecture and combined residential and commercial areas. Cheung considers Chinatown a safe harbor for Chinese immigrants, where they had a sense of security and could speak their native language.
Cheung was employed by a Jewish import...
Dates:
2008-02-25
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America
Oral History Interview with Leonard Liao, 2015-07-01 - 2016-12-21
Item
Identifier: 2016.037.014
Abstract
Leonard Liao was born and raised in Chinatown and Flushing, New York during the 1970s and 1980s. Given that his paternal grandfather and father once lived in Cuba, Liao grew up eating both Chinese and Latino Cuisine. Given that he was influenced by both Chinese and Latino culture, Liao understands what it is to retain loyal customers from the Latino community. The legacy Liao hopes to leave is to inform everyone to do whatever one is passionate to do.
Dates:
2015-07-01 - 2016-12-21
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America