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Chinese Americans

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Chinese-American Citizens Alliance, Portland Lodge, photographs collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 75
Abstract

The collection consists of 50 black-and-white portraits of the founding members of the Chinese-American Citizens Alliance, Portland Lodge, 1921.

Dates: 1921; 1998

Oral history interview with Leah Hing and Ruth Chinn

 Collection
Identifier: SR 3567
Abstract

Oral history interview with sisters Leah Hing and Ruth Chinn, conducted by Jane Leung Larson in two sessions, on April 9 and April 26, 1999. Hing and Chinn discuss their family background and early life on a hop farm in Tualatin, Oregon. Hing also talks about playing in a band whose members were all Chinese American women, and about learning to fly with pilot Tex Rankin in Portland during the 1930s.

Dates: 1999 April 9-26

Oral history interview with Leah Hing

 Collection
Identifier: SR 3568
Abstract

Oral history interview with Leah Hing, conducted by Judy Yung on April 18, 1982, as part of the Chinese Women of America Research Project. Hing looks at photographs of the Chinese community in Portland, Oregon, taken in the early 20th century and discusses them, and talks about her family background and early life on a hop farm in Tualatin, Oregon.

Dates: 1982 April 18

Bue Jack Kee photograph albums

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1065
Abstract

Digital copies of two photograph albums created by Bue Jack Kee, a Chinese American resident of Aurora, Oregon. Includes images of family, friends, local scenes, agriculture, schools, and travel throughout Oregon and the Pacific Northwest.

Dates: 1917-1928