Object Details
- unknown
- Description (Brief)
- In 1906 Ng Shee Lee packed her clothes and belongings in this trunk and left China for America. It was a difficult trip. She slept next to the noisy engine room; arriving tired and sick in San Francisco she was met by the devastating 1906 earthquake. Ng Shee then made her way alone by train across Canada to New York where she rejoined her husband, Lee B. Lok.
- Credit Line
- Gift of James Edgar Mead and Virginia Lee Mead
- ca 1906
- ID Number
- 1992.0620.01
- catalog number
- 1992.0620.01
- accession number
- 1992.0620
- Object Name
- trunk
- Physical Description
- leather (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- trunk closed: 34 cm x 46 cm x 70 cm; 13 3/8 in x 18 1/8 in x 27 9/16 in
- place made
- China
- arrived at
- United States: New York, Manhattan, Chinatown
- Related Publication
- Mead, Virginia Lee. Lee Chinese -American Family Papers, ca. 1915-1970
- Related Web Publication
- http://collections.si.edu/search/results.jsp?q=set_name:%22Lee+Chinese-American+Family+Papers%2C+ca.+1915-1970%22
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Costume
- Cultures & Communities
- Family & Social Life
- Transportation
- Chinese American
- Exhibition
- On the Water
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- subject
- Chinese American
- Immigration
- Immigrants
- related event
- The Emergence of Modern America
- Record ID
- nmah_1119903
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-acfe-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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