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Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Ng, 2001-04-24
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Identifier: 2015.008.003
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Elizabeth Ng talks about growing up in Depression Era New York City living in a big family and participating in the neighborhood church. She speaks about her brothers going to war and her parents’ relationship and histories. Growing up she went to Washington Irving high School and then Hunter College. She also reflects upon her sister dancing in the World’s Fair in Queens. After college with a degree in teaching she became a teacher in New York City. She discusses her relationships with the...
Dates:
2001-04-24
Oral History Interview with June Flodsand, 1994-05-09
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Identifier: 1994.007.011
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In this interview, June Flodsand recounts her life as a working-class, first-generation American, a devout Lutheran of Norwegian parentage. She remembers an innocent childhood of family chores, a first job as a soda jerk, and weekly participation in church and its activities. As an adult, Flodsand married a fellow Lutheran and continued a life devoted to work, church, Norwegian-themed festivities, and socializing. Flodsand laments the Brooklyn neighborhood of Sunset Park transition from a...
Dates:
1994-05-09
Oral History Interview with Wing Lee, April 5, 2013
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Identifier: 2013.022.009
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Tomie Arai and Janice Lau sit down with Wing Lee to discuss his life and his experience growing up in and around New York City’s Chinatown in the ‘60s through the ‘80s. Wing talks about what it was like as a kid being raised in the US with Chinese parents, and growing up on the streets of Chinatown. He talks about the schools he went to in the area, and all the spots the neighborhood kids used to hang out. Later on in his late teenage years, he describes the experience at a popular...
Dates:
April 5, 2013
The Family Journey of The Yao Family, 2016-10
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Identifier: 2016.033.007
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Tina Yao & William Yao talk about their immigration life experience, their family tradition and the cultural legacy they want to leave to their offspring. William Yao talks about his childhood in Shanghai, his father who worked in the silk business died of a stroke when he was young. Although three of her five children lived with her brother it was still hard for William mother to raise her children, financially. After WWII William went to the Shanghai provincial State High School, later...
Dates:
2016-10
The Family Journey of Wan Sang Nee and Ah Mei Nee, 2022-11-06
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Identifier: 2022.056.002
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In this oral history, Wan Sang Nee and Ah Mei Nee share their family’s immigration story. The Nees married in Hong Kong, later immigrated to the U.S., raised two children, and sponsored members of their extended family to come to the United States. During the interview, Wan Sang Nee describes how he jumped ship as a seaman and stayed in America with encouragement from his wife’s cousin who was already in the U.S. He later brought wife and daughter to America, and helped sponsor the...
Dates:
2022-11-06
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