1906 Chinese Immigrant’s Lacquer Trunk
- 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.
- Object Name
- trunk
- date made
- ca 1906
- maker
- unknown
- 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
- place made
- China
- arrived at
- United States: New York, Manhattan, Chinatown
- ID Number
- 1992.0620.01
- catalog number
- 1992.0620.01
- accession number
- 1992.0620
- subject
- Cultures & Communities
- Family & Social Life
- Transportation
- Chinese American
- Immigration
- Immigrants
- Chinese American
- event
- The Emergence of Modern America
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Costume
- Chinese American
- Exhibition
- On the Water
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
- Credit Line
- Gift of James Edgar Mead and Virginia Lee Mead
- Publication title
- Lee Chinese -American Family Papers, ca. 1915-1970
- Publication author
- Mead, Virginia Lee
- Publication URL
- http://collections.si.edu/search/results.jsp?q=set_name:%22Lee+Chinese-American+Family+Papers%2C+ca.+1915-1970%22
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