Scope and Contents The collection mostly contains administrative and business records of Chong Lung and Co., such as business cards, letterhead, bills, receipts, inventory lists, payroll records, tax records, bank accounts, check books, and other financial records. Most of the business records are from the early 1920s to the late 1940s. In addition, there is a newspaper clipping and a few personal items, including letters, cards, envelopes, and notebooks. Objects are also searchable via PastPerfect Online...

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,...

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...

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...

Abstract Sylvia Seid is the sister in law and wife of the men who founded what is now considered a Chinatown cultural trademark - The Chinatown Ice-cream Factory. Of Peruvian and Chinese descent, Seid describes her upbringing and her childhood growing up in Peru and the States. She also discusses the evolution of the ice-cream business from the late 1970s to the early twentieth century and how it has transformed from being the once tourist destination to the now localized sweet-treat icon it is known...

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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.

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...

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351 photographs digitized in 600dpi. The photographs depict pictures of the donor's family.

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...