Asian American United States Navy sailor and fellow white serviceman appear throughout this World War II photograph archive documenting naval personnel and their families in domestic settings during the 1940s. Thousands of Chinese Americans enlisted in the U.S. Navy during the war, forming one of the largest concentrations of Asian.....
[Asian American][Chinese American][San Francisco Chinatown] Chinese American family photograph archive dating from approximately the 1930s through the 1960s, with images of everyday life, community celebration, and military service in the Chinese American community during the mid twentieth century. The photographs show multiple generations of Chinese American men, women, and children.....
[Chinese American] Chinese American family photo album, mid-20th century, recording the Chinese American diaspora in California and Oragon during the decades following the repeal of Chinese exclusion laws and the expansion of immigration policy in the United States. The album captures a period of social mobility among Chinese Americans in.....
Press photographs of Anna May Wong produced between 1943 and 1949 document the career of the first Asian American woman to achieve international film stardom and provide visual evidence of her navigation of racialized casting practices within the Hollywood studio system. These images place Wong within both wartime propaganda cinema.....
U.S. Department of State. Report of the Secretary of State…relative to the coolie trade (1856) and Asiatic Coolie Trade, Message from the President of the United States (1861) document official correspondence, inspections, and policy concerns surrounding the transnational transport and exploitation of Chinese laborers in the mid-nineteenth century. These reports.....
California college graduation photograph, circa 1880s, documents the presence of an Asian student within a formally posed graduating class at a time of legalized anti Chinese exclusion and widespread racial discrimination in the American West. The image shows ten graduates holding diplomas, with men in formal evening dress and women.....
[Chinese American] [Boston] Chinese American cabinet card circa 1890s, a formal studio portrait produced during the height of the Chinese Exclusion era. Created in Boston around or shortly after the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, the photograph provides evidence of Chinese American presence in New England and self-representation in the diasporic.....
Unidentified photographers, seventeen photographs and real photo postcards of San Francisco Chinatown, circa 1900s to 1940s, document Chinese American community life during the enforcement of Chinese Exclusion Act and subsequent immigration restrictions. These images record family life, commercial activity, and built environments within a segregated urban enclave shaped by federal.....
[Chinese-American] San Francisco Chinatown real photo postcard archive (circa 1900s–1930s), showing Chinese American community during the enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Act and subsequent immigration restrictions, providing visual evidence of cultural continuity and social organization in the Chinese diaspora under conditions of legal discrimination. Created during a period when Chinese.....
Photographs of a Chinese American family in Hawaii dating primarily to the early 1940s document transpacific mobility, family structure, and cultural adaptation during World War II, when Hawaii served as a critical military and social hub in the Pacific. The images capture multiple generations of a Chinese diaspora family in.....
San Francisco Chinatown photo archive, group of 21 postcards dating from the early 1900s to the 1920s, documenting Chinese American community life under the legal and social constraints of the Chinese Exclusion era. The material captures street scenes, architecture, and daily activity within Chinatown during a period when federal immigration.....
Chinese-language newspaper issue. World War II era, New York City. This publication documents Chinese American civic participation and wartime communication during the Second World War, presenting news of the Pacific theater alongside appeals for support of the United States war effort and coverage of U.S.–China relations. The issue demonstrates how.....
[Chinese-American] Chinese American family photographs, circa 1950s to 1960s, offering intimate portraits of midcentury Chinese American life centered on family, fashion, education, and community milestones. The archive reflects the lived experience of a predominantly second generation Chinese American community in the decades following the repeal of Chinese exclusion in 1943.....
[Chinese-American] Chung Sai Yat Po (中西日報). Vol. 50, No. 154. San Francisco, July 1, 1949. 8 pages. The first Chinese daily paper published outside of China, Chung Sai Yat Po was a vital voice for the Chinese American community throughout the first half of the 20th century. Founded in 1900.....
[Chinese-American] [Labor] Chinese Laundry Association, Inc. Membership Certificate. San Francisco, California: Chinese Laundry Association, Inc., Signed by both the Secretary and the President of the Chinese Laundry Association. Has an official circular blind-stamp stating "Incorporated May 17, 1949." Measures 8.5" x 11". An exceedingly rare surviving membership certificate issued by.....
[Chinese American] [Fashion & Beauty] Chinese American beauty pageant "Miss China Town, USA" held in San Francisco photo archive, 1965. Archive of 12 silver gelatin photographs. Each measure 4" x 6" and comes in the original developer's envelope "Schaefer's Camera Shop -- 137 Kearny Street." This striking archive captures a......
Chinese American newspaper issue, The Chinese Journal (美洲日報), published in New York on April 20, 1957, offering a rich portrait of midcentury Chinese American life, diasporic politics, and community organizing during the Cold War era. Issued by the Chinese American World Publishing Corporation and described as “the most progressive, intelligent.....
[Chinese American] [Photography] Chinese American professional studio photos from the 1920s. These two cabinet cards depict Chinese American individuals and family life during a period of significant social and political tension for Asian communities in the United States. Each measure around 10" x 7". One image from New York shows.....
China Notes Newsletter Archive of 3 issues: Vol. XI Nos. 1, 2, and 4. New York: East Asia Office – Division of Overseas Ministries NCC/USA (The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA), 1972–1973. Archive of three issues of China Notes, a critical educational publication distributed by.....
