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Alex Jay collection
Collection
Identifier: 2001.026-2015.041-2017.003
Scope and Contents
This collection mostly contains materials procured by Alex Jay and focus on Chinese American writers and playwrights, artists and illustrators, actors, comic book artists, filmmakers, designers, and architects. There are various periodicals, artwork, books, comic books, recipes, playbills, and other items either by Chinese Americans or about Chinese Americans, all dating between 1914 and 2015. Objects are also searchable via PastPerfect Online System at...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1877-2015
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America
Alice Lee Chun collection
Collection
Identifier: 2004.096
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of paper documents and newspaper clippings related to Alice Lee Chun's work as a public health nurse. In addition, it includes paper documents, photographs, and a large scrapbook from her time as a member of the Ging Hawk Club. Objects are also searchable via PastPerfect Online System at http://mocanyc.pastperfectonline.com/randomimages.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1933-1982
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America
Chinese Sportswear Workers Social Association collection
Collection
Identifier: 2010.040
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of materials and objects used by the Chinese Sportswear Workers Social Association and photographs of the association's members. Most of the materials date from 1971-2007, although there is one book from 1947. Series 1 includes administrative documents and materials used by the association, such as letterhead, annual reports, meeting minutes, and manifestos. Series 2 consists of objects, such as a banner, posters, a mahjong game, and a mahjong table. Series 3...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1971-2007
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
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
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America
Manuscript collection
Collection
Identifier: 2014.030
Dates:
1930-2010 (bulk 1977-1993)
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America
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
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America
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
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America
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...
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Majority of material found within 1900 - 1990
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America
Sin Jang Leung collection
Collection
Identifier: 2015.039
Scope and Contents
This collection consists entirely of paper documents, the majority of which is correspondence from 1980-1986. Most of the correspondence is with the Social Secutiry Administration, Medicare, the Chinatown Health Clinic, and Hamilton Madison House, a community center with services for senior citizens. In addition, there are some newspaper clippings (in Chinese) for Chinese medicine, a postcard (in Chinese), and a few empty envelopes.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1980-1986
Found in:
Museum of Chinese in America
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