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Chinese Americans--History.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Allon Schoener collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2010.008
Scope and Contents This collection consists of research materials for a planned book and exhibition entitled, "The Chinese in America." These materials include paper documents, such as correspondence, budgets, photocopied articles and images, and rough drafts; audio-visual materials, such as DVDs, VHS cassette tapes, and CDs; and printed material, such as books and one issue of National Geographic. Most of these materials date from 2004-2007, although there are a few publications from the late 1980s and early...
Dates: Majority of material found in 2003-2008

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

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

Ernest K. H. Eng Album, 1945-1962

 Series
Identifier: 2016.006.001-2016.006.407
Scope and Contents -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 of 40 pages (no images on the last page), as well as notes and newspaper clippings on album pages, some loosing...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1945-1962

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

Ernest K. H. Eng Letters, 1953-1955

 Series
Identifier: 2016.006.408-2016.006.410
Scope and Contents

The three letters came from George Catlett Marshall. Ernest Eng worked with General Marshall during his mission in China from 1945 to 1948. The letters were the conversation of them from they back to the United States. All of the three are greeting letters from General Marshall.

Dates: 1953-1955

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

Miscellaneous Periodicals, 1877-2016

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents

The sub-series consists of journals and periodicals as well as pages removed from them. A portion of the materials are periodicals that are devoted to Chinese or Asian American cultures. Others either include articles or photographs of Asian American subjects, media scene, and Chinatown, or have cover art or illustrations by Chinese American artists.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1877-2016

Moriah Historical Society - Digitization Project

 Collection
Identifier: 2018.017
Scope and Contents

2 digtized prison ledgers containing the records of 681 Chinese immigrants that were arrested and jailed in Port Henry, NY between 1901-1903.

Dates: 1901 - 1903