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David Lewis Hammarstrom Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2017.032
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of xeroxed background research, correspondences, interview excerpts, audio tapes with full interviews with cast members, and draft and published versions of Hammarstrom's book. The background research contains literature and clippings relating the "Flower Drum Song" shows. The correspondences are between Hammarstrom and the publisher and interviewees. The interview excerpts were intended for usage in the published book.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 2003-01-01 - 2006-12-31
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America
Douglas J. Chu collection
Collection
Identifier: 2012.008-2015.037
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of photographs and paper materials documenting Douglas J. Chu's family from the 1900s-1975. The photographs are in black and white and color, and they range in size. Many of the photographs are labelled with a date, name, and location on the back. The majority of the photographs are from Donald Typond, Douglas Chu's first cousin once removed (his mother's first cousin). The paper materials consist of affidavits, birth and marriage certificates, awards, account books,...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1900s-1975
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Museum of Chinese in America
Edith Ong collection
Collection
Identifier: 2015.040
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of newspaper clippings, one menu, and Chinese New Year envelopes. The newspaper clippings are mostly from the 1930s-1940s (although some are undated), and most of them are from Baltimore newspapers or include stories or photographs about Baltimore. A few clippings have accompanying articles, but most of them are just photographs. All of the clippings are original copies of articles/photographs about Chinese Americans and Chinese visiting the United States, as in...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1930s-1940s
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America
Emile Bocian collection
Collection
Identifier: 2014.029
Content Description
Emile Bocian (1912-1990) was a photographer who worked steadily in the 1960s-1980s in New York City. Although there is not a lot of information about Bocian, he worked for Waldo Mayo Associates Public Relations in the 1950s; this firm provided publicity for the film, radio, and television industries. In the early 1970s, Bocian began working for "The China Post" as the Director of Advertising and Public Relations and most likely became an editor at some point. According to his own account, he...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1940s-1980s
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America
Eric Ng collection
Collection
Identifier: 2015.043-2007.072-2004.072
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of photographs, postcards, glass projection slides, printed materials, and reference materials. Photographs and postcards document the businesses, social environment and development of New York's Chinatown, including inter-ethnic tensions. Printed material include articles, magazines, booklets, and a guidebook about the social history of Chinatowns and the political environment during the Second Sino-Japanese War. There are also menus for Chinese Restaurants in New...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1860s-1970s
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America
Ernest K. H. Eng collection
Collection
Identifier: 2016.006
Scope and Contents
-This is a digital collection. MOCA digitizes it from the Captain Ernest K. H. Eng's photo album.-Digital copies of Captain Ernest K. H. Eng's photo album; including images of his tour in China with the mission of General George Catlett Marshall, and other political figures of China such as Zhou, Enlai and Chiang, Kai-shek during the war from September 1945 to June 1948, his wedding pictures in China in 1946, and his family photos after returning to America from China, a total...
Dates:
1945-1962
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America
Family Treasures Digitization Project Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2018.0XX-2019.0XX
Abstract
A collection of materials digitized for the "Family Treasures" project funded by the National Historic Publication and Records Commission (NHPRC) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). These materials are not limited to Chinese Americans. The project is meant to help members of the community preserve their photographs, artifacts, documents, etc.
Dates:
2018 - 2019
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America
Fold Exhibition Oral History Project
Collection
Identifier: 2018.034
Abstract
On June 6, 1993, the Golden Venture ran aground near Rockaway Beach, Queens, NY. The cargo ship passengers, nearly 300 migrants primarily from Fujian Province, China, were being smuggled into America by a Chinese crime syndicate. While the asylum-seekers waited for uncertain legal outcomes in York Country Prison, Pennsylvania, they began creating paper sculptures employing the traditional Chinese folk art of paper folding. Originally, these pieces were created as gifts for their lawyers and...
Dates:
2018
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America
Fran H. Ng collection
Collection
Identifier: 1994.010
Scope and Contents
The materials in this collection consist entirely of paper documents donated by a social worker in the mid 1990s. These materials include academic papers and reports; brochures, pamphlets, and mailings; newsletters; newspaper and magazine clippings; and full issues of magazines and journals. Most of the materials date from the early 1970s-mid 1980s, although there are a few items from the mid 1960s. The majority of the items relate to physical and mental health issues in the Asian American...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1966-1986
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America
Front Row Oral History Project
Collection
Identifier: 2013.021
Abstract
These interviews were conducted for MOCA's 2013 fashion exhibition, Front Row. The exhibition traced and celebrated the rise of Chinese American designers who have made their mark in the international world of fashion. In the interviews, the designers discuss the diversity of their aesthetics, their individualized approaches to branding, and how their varying personal relationship to cultural identity has shaped what we now understand as not only New York fashion, but an American sense of...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 2013
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America
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