The collection is comprised of photographs of businesses and cultural festivals within Southeast Asian American communities. The photographs were taken by Anne Frank, librarian of the Southeast Asian Archive at the University of California, Irvine. The communities include those in Long Beach, California; Lowell, Massachusetts; Little Saigon in Garden Grove and Westminster, California and other cities in the United States.

Anne Frank is the founding librarian for the UC Irvine Libraries Southeast Asian Archive. She has been employed by the UCI Libraries since 1966 and has worked there also as a humanities cataloger and general reference librarian. Prior to her employment at UCI she was a reference and bookmobile librarian for the Multnomah County Library in Portland, Oregon and a bibliographer for the University of California Berkeley Library. She received her B.A. and M.L.S. from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.A. in Public History and Historic Preservation from California State University, Dominguez Hills.

0.2 Linear Feet (1 box) and 50 digitized images.

Physical property rights and copyrights reside with the University of California. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Southeast Asian Archive Librarian.

Collection open for research.