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...

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;...

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...

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The document in this series is a newspaper clipping.

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The documents in this series include the following: books; composition books of various sizes; small and large journals/notebooks; large bound coupon books; a Boy Scout identification card (belonging to a Harry Lee); a scarf from a Boy Scout uniform; a name plate with "Samuel S. Fung" etched into it; and a metal printing mold for printing/replicating business cards for Samuel S. Fung.

Abstract In 1980, Agnes Chan graduated at the top of her Police Academy class and became the NYPD’s first Asian female officer. In this position, she sought to build bridges between the Asian community and the police department. Promoted to Detective rank in 1984, Chang served 20 years in the NYPD, including Chinatown’s 5th precinct. She retired in 2000.Chan initially went to John Jay College with the vision of going to law school but after an internship in Chinatown, she decided to join...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: 9/11 Chinatown Documentation Project includes oral history interviews of people who lived or worked in the Lower East Side during the events on September 11th, 2001. The individuals whose stories were collected are of diverse immigrant, educational, age and socio-economic backgrounds. The interviewees reflect on the tragedy and discuss how their lives and the lives of others in the community were affected by it. The interviews help to paint a portrait of how the New York Chinatown we know...

Abstract This oral history, conducted in Cantonese with Alice Yip, was part of a greater effort by MOCA to research and record the history of Chinese Americans in the garment industry and was possibly conducted as part of MOCA’s research for its 1989 exhibition, “Both Sides of the Cloth.” Alice Yip, who grew up in Hong Kong, immigrated to the Netherlands in 1970 and then to the United States in 1976. She went to work immediately in the garment industry in New York Chinatown the day after arriving....

Abstract Alice Young is a career teacher and principal who has lived most of her life in Brooklyn. She begins the interview by sharing the story of her family’s immigration to the United States and about her family’s laundry business. Alice reminisces about her childhood and school life leading up to her time at Brooklyn College, where she studied to become an elementary school teacher. As an NYC school teacher, she worked in different boroughs including Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. She...

Abstract This combined interview includes conversations with Alice Young, Joseph Eng Young, Tom Wong, and Helen Wong. The topics covered include their immigration story coming to the United States from China, family life, their education, and careers. Joseph and Tom provide insights into the Chinese restaurant industry in New York Chinatown during the 1920s and 30s. Helen describes the types of discrimination she and her family faced as Chinese living and working in the United States. Alice shares...