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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
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Jane Moy Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2016.029
Scope and Contents
The collection mostly contains the lives of William Moy and his mother, Jeanne Moy. There are including family photos, biography and genealogy. Most of the documents are from the 1930's to 1940's.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1930‘s-2010's
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Lee Family Association collection
Collection
Identifier: 2004.053
Scope and Contents
The materials in this collection mainly consist of paper documents, objects, and photographs. The majority of the paper documents are administrative and financial in nature, regarding both the New York Lee Family Association and the New York Lee Federal Credit Union. There are also a few journals and brochures from other local Chinese associations and some newspaper clippings. Most of the objects are items used by the Association and/or the Federal Credit Union, such as a desk, a print...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1966-1990
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Manuscript collection
Collection
Identifier: 2014.030
Dates:
1930-2010 (bulk 1977-1993)
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Milton L. Barnett collection
Collection
Identifier: 2001.022
Scope and Contents
This collection includes research material conducted by Milton L. Barnett for his thesis on alcoholism in the Chinese-American community in the late 1940s-1950s. It also includes research material from two colleagues (Eugenia Chen, possibly a student of Barnett's, and Richard Wang, a doctor at the New Jersey State Hospital) who worked with him, on the topic of the role and significance of drinking in Chinatown, and constituted a committee. The committee's research mainly involved compiling...
Dates:
Majority of material found in late 1940s-early 1950s
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Mooie Eng collection
Collection
Identifier: 1994.013
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of photographs and paper materials (brochures, pamphlets, and reports) from Mooie Eng's tenure at the Community Service Center. The photographs are black and white, and the majority of them depict Mooie Eng demonstrating proper health care techniques to women. They are all dated 1954. There are two images of the Golden Age Club, depicting older men and children, most likely from around 1954. The paper materials include bulletins from CSS, dated 1947, 1971, and 1973;...
Dates:
Majority of material found in late 1940s-mid 1970s
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Mui Yuen Kung Chiu & Hung Fook Chiu collection
Collection — Box: 1-11, Frame: 12-13
Identifier: 2009.015
Scope and Contents
The collection contains 250 hand written opera manuscripts, Books and articles written by Chiu, Hung Fook and other authors on Cantonese opera history, theory, performance, and instrument. Photographs of Chiu, Mui Yuen Kung and Chiu, Hung Fook on stages, at training classes, at their opera business, and in their daily life, in group pictures with other Hong Kong opera singers, as well as the materials of the Art and Performance Center and the Arts Training Centre, including business...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1996-2009
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Poy Gum Lee collection
Collection
Identifier: 2015.044
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of photographs, newspaper clippings, certificates, sketches, drawings, blueprints, documents, and objects. Photographs and newspaper articles portray Lee’s life in New York and China, his family, and his architectural projects. Letters and documents record business transactions, proposals, legal contracts and the experiences after the Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War. The objects encompass some of the essential tools of the trade used by an architect. Lee...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1900 - 1990
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Public School (PS) 23 collection
Collection
Identifier: 2012.022-2004.021
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of class materials, objects, photographs, and printed material either salvaged or donated by various individuals. The class materials include teacher's master copies of worksheets, student evaluations, and students' notes. The objects consist of 4 autograph albums donated by former students, an artwork, and two drawers filled with student report cards. The photographs mostly consist of class photographs, in black and white, although there are a few in color. These...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1920s-1991
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Samuel S. Fung collection
Collection
Identifier: 1985.001-2011.053
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials gathered by Samuel S. Fung that focus on the Chinese-American boy scouting experience and self-publishing practices for amateur authors. There are various periodicals, photographs, maps, book mock-ups, illustrations, certificates, Boy Scout memorabilia, Boy Scout records, newspaper and magazine clippings, brochures, font samples, composition notebooks, journals, coupons, general correspondence, receipts, and other items produced between the 1910s to the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1927 - 1984
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America
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