Collections
The types of collections listed here include archival collections, websites, and personal collections, and cover a variety of topics related to the Chinatown neighborhood and Boston's Chinese community. Listed below is a brief description of each collection and its contents, as well as its digitization status.
title | collection type | digitization status | description |
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Asian American Resource Workshop records | archival collection | partially digitized | The records in this collection document the AARW's civil rights and anti-violence efforts for Asian Americans, and their creation of Asian American educational and cultural resources. It also includes documentation on the SafetyNet Violence Prevention Project and the Sticky Rice Project. Types of documents include minutes, calendars, grant applications, budgets, photographs, comics, etc. |
Asian Community Development Corporation (Jacquie L. Kay) records | archival collection | The Asian Community Development Corporation's records document the development of affordable housing and assistance for small business development, education, and job training for Asian-Americans in urban areas. The majority of the collection documents two ACDC development projects, Oak Terrace and The Metropolitan, including funding reports, project status reports, and design specifications. | |
Boston 200 records | archival collection | partially digitized | Collection of oral histories documenting Chinatown and South End. Oral histories labeled under South End often address individuals and activities in Chinatown. Many of the transcripts of the oral histories are partial and appear to have been edited. |
Boston Greenspace Alliance records | archival collection | not digitized | This collection includes one folder of materials titled Chinatown, 2004 (box 3, folder 146). |
Boston Urban Gardeners records | archival collection | not digitized | This collection includes folders of materials on Chinatown from the 1980s, such as surveys (business, housing, user), reports (land use), plans, maps (Downtown Crossing and Chinatown), and a publication ("Chinatown 1988: Urban Design for Community Growth") |
Carmen Chan's Sampan photos | personal collection | not digitized | This collection contains photographs taken by Carmen Chan, a reporter for Chinatown's local newspaper Sampan. The collection contains a large number of black and white photos. |
Caroline Chang collection | archival collection | not digitized | This is one of CHSNE's many collections. It currently has not been processed yet, so enquiries should be made to CHSNE for research availability. |
Cheng Imm Tan papers | archival collection | not digitized | This collection contains audio, videos, pictures, and teaching documents of Gund Kwok, an all-women Asian Lion Dance troupe based in Boston's Chinatown. It also contains some of Cheng Imm Tan's legal and personal documents, such as immigration and travel documents, awards, and family photographs. |
Chinatown Story Cart | website | fully digitized | This is an art project created 2020-2021. In collaboration with local youth groups like BCNC, CSTO, and ACDC, interviews were collected and visual media was created about the Chinatown community's lives and their experience of the pandemic. It also includes story sets with visual art and reflection activities sent to and collected from the residents. The majority of the collection is digitized. |
Chinese American Experiences Mass. Memories Road Show | archival collection | fully digitized | Chinese American Experiences Mass. Memories Road Show is a digital collection of items (photographs, documents, video interviews) contributed by community members. These materials were collected during a participatory archiving event held at the Pao Arts Center in Chinatown on June 2, 2018. |
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