1906 Chinese Immigrant’s Lacquer Trunk
Object Details
- date made
- ca 1906
- maker
- 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.
- Description
- In 1906 Nge 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.
- place made
- China
- arrived at
- United States: New York, Manhattan, Chinatown
- referenced
- Immigration
- Immigrants
- used
- Chinese Americans
- related event
- The Emergence of Modern America
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Costume
- Cultures & Communities
- Family & Social Life
- Transportation
- Chinese American
- Exhibition
- On the Water
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- 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
- Credit Line
- Gift of James Edgar Mead and Virginia Lee Mead
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- 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
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- nmah_1119903
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