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1984.002.002 - Records
Cliff Law grew up in the town of Hastings in Upstate New York and later moved to New York Chinatown in the late 1930s. His father, Harry Law, owned a foundry that manufactured laundry equipment in nearby Kingston and a hardware store in Chinatown at 11-13 Doyers Street. The oral history interview begins with Cliff recalling memories of Doyers Street, as well as discuss-ing the history of 11-13 Doyers Street, the building his father purchased afte...
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1984.002.003 - Records
Interview with Mr. Sun Wang on January 7, 1984. The interview was conducted at Chinese Center of Long Island. Interview by Jim Dao and Steven Chin.
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1984.002.005 - Records
Interview with Mr.Wong on Oct-Nov, 1984. The theme of the topic was: Eat a Bowl of Tea.
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1988.016.002 - Records
Interview with Mrs. Fong on June 8, 1988. Mrs.Fong is work in the Garment Industry.
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1988.016.003 - Records
Interview with XuLian Sun on May 7, 1988. Mrs. Sun was work in the Garment Factory. The interview was Mandarin.
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1988.016.004 - Records
Interview with XiMei Liang ion May 30, 1988. Mrs.Liang was work in the Garment Factory.
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1988.016.005 - Records
Interview with YangJianZhen Zeng on June 12, 1988. Mrs. Zeng work in the Garment Factory. The interview was conduct in English.
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1988.016.006 - Records
Interview with Heng Yu Yan on June 5, 1988. The interview was conducted in Mandarin.
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1988.016.007 - Records
Interview with Mrs,Lee on June 1, 1988. Mrs.Lee works in the Garment Factory.
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1988.016.008 - Records
Interview with Mrs.Ng on May 24, 1988. Mrs.Ng works in the Garment Industry. The interview was conducted in Mandarin.
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1988.016.009 - Records
Interview with Mrs.Ka on May 24, 1988. Mrs.Ka works in the Garment Factory.
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1988.016.010 - Records
Interview with Mrs.Jenie. Mrs.Jenie Ng works in the Garment Industry. The interview was conduct in Chinese,.
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1988.016.011 - Records
Interview with Mrs.Yan on May 30, 1988. The Inerview was conduct in Mandarin.
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1989.023.001 - Records
This oral history, conducted in Cantonese Chinese with Alice Yip, is 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 in the garment industry in New ...
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1990.015.003 - Records
David is a member of the New York Chinatown community who opened a laundry business before the Great Depression. He arrived in Chinatown in 1927, and exploring streets such as Bayard and Mott, observed a community with Chinese fabric stores, banks, drugstores, coffee shops, a theater, a dance hall, and a subway. Despite this economic vibrancy, areas such as Division Street were plagued by crime and instability. David opened a laundry business ...
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1990.015.004 - Records
In his youth, Donald Seeto played basketball on the Chinatown teams sponsored by the Chinese Athletic Club (CAC) (after 1946, the Chinese Community Club). Seeto was a member of the Midgets Basketball Team representing Chinatown’s Fifth Precinct, which won the Police Athletic League (PAL) New York City Basketball Championship undefeated for an impressive 25 straight games in 1945. In this oral history, Seeto shares memories of playing and later co...
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1990.015.005 - Records
This interview with Dr. Paul Chu (b. 1925) was conducted by an NYU graduate student who was working with the Chinatown History Project (now MOCA) to collect stories for a workshop on earlier generations of Italian American and Chinese American students at PS 23 (Public School 23). Paul, a dentist and longtime resident of Chinatown, grew up in Oakland's Chinatown and moved to New York in the 1930s with his parents at the age of 8 or 9. His grandfa...
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