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Lee Chinese-American Family Papers

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Lee Chinese-American Family Papers
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Object Details

sova.nmah.ac.0555
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8f5243727-7f36-4408-a2cf-4de0eb062d4a
Creator
Mead, Virginia Lee
Topic
Family -- 20th century
Provenance
The collection was donated by Alison Shue (Mrs. John) Lee and Mrs. Poon Lam Mok (Grace Lee) of New York, through Virginia (Mrs. Robert H.) Mead of Washington, D.C., 1994.
Creator
Mead, Virginia Lee
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Lee Chinese-American Family Papers
Summary
Scrapbook, photograph album, published family book, photographic prints, and news clippings related to Virginia Mead's family.
Extent
0.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
Date
circa 1915-1970
Custodial History
The Archives Center was alerted to the scrapbooks by Richard Ahlborn, Curator in the Division of Community Life (now Division of Cultural and Community Life), with whom they were originally placed on loan. Grace Lee is the sister of Mrs. Mead and Alison Shue is her niece. The collection was assigned NMAH non-accession no. 1994.3135, and is related to accession no. 1992.0634.
Archival Repository
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Identifier
NMAH.AC.0555
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Photograph albums
Clippings
Scrapbooks
Citation
Lee Chinese American Family Papers, circa 1915-1970, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into one series.
Processing Information
Collection processed by David Haberstich, undated.
Rights
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Genre/Form
Photograph albums
Clippings
Scrapbooks
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a scrapbook, a photograph album, and a published family book with Chinese text and reproductions of portrait photographs. The scrapbook and album contain clippings and memorabilia from the Lee family, which had emigrated from China to New York, and miscellaneous unmounted photographs. This material dates primarily from the 1920s to the 1940s, although a few items are as late as 1970. Most of the persons in the photographs are not identified, although travel pictures in such places as Hawaii and Haiti are captioned. However, a few newspaper clippings in the collection in which photographs apparently depict members of the Lee and Shue families and/or the articles relate to them.
Restrictions
Collection is open for research. The scrapbooks are in fragile condition. See repository for more details about handling.
NMAH.AC.0555
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8f5243727-7f36-4408-a2cf-4de0eb062d4a
NMAH.AC.0555
ACAH
Record ID
ebl-1503512987155-1503512987157-0

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  • Album page with various snapshots glued to both sides.

  • Photoprint: 8 young women in front of "Tea House" signs, by Bayshore Photo Studio, Bay Shore, L. I. (stamp on verso). Pen on verso: "Sep. 16 1935 / To Anna Lee / who made a fantasy / become a delightful reality / Ella H Rigney / and / Francis J. Rigney." Print is yellowing and fading.

  • Black album page, with 8" x 10" print of parade, showing woman carrying "Chinese Women's Parade" banner, with date in ink, 1932. Three snapshots of young people glued to verso. Large print is fading and yellowing, others are in reasonable condition.

  • Scrapbook page with studio portrait of young Chinese-American girl on one side, Chinatown parade

  • Loose album page with printed invitations, dated 1932 and 1933, on one side, and a printed Chinese item plus a newspaper clipping on the verso, "Chinese Girls and Their Fatherland" undated

  • Printed book with Chinese text and reproductions of portrait photographs.

  • Photoprint: Three Chinese American men wearing cameras, standing outside a tree-shaded pharmacy

  • Lee Family Scrapbook

  • Photoprint: children in classroom, some of whom are Chinese American, with banner, "Honor Banking Class / Bowery Savings Bank"

  • 4 newspaper clippings with photographs

  • Photoprint: Chinese American women carrying large banner


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