Guide to the Anne Frank Photographs of Southeast Asian American Communities MS.SEA.032

Julia Stringfellow, 2006.
2006/01/01
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
(cc) 2006
The UCI Libraries
P.O. Box 19557
University of California, Irvine
Irvine 92623-9557
spcoll@uci.edu


Contributing Institution: Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Title: Anne Frank photographs of Southeast Asian American communities
Creator: Frank, Anne
Identifier/Call Number: MS.SEA.032
Physical Description: 0.2 Linear Feet (1 box) and 50 digitized images.
Date (inclusive): 1995-2004
Abstract: 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.
Language of Material: English .

Access

Collection open for research.

Publication Rights

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.

Preferred Citation

Anne Frank photographs of Southeast Asian American communities. MS-SEA032. Southeast Asian Archive, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Anne Frank, 2004.

Alternative Forms of Material Available

A selection of fifty images from this collection has been digitized and is available in the Online Archive of California.

Processing Information

Processed by Julia Stringfellow, 2005. Processing was supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant.

Biography

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.

Collection Scope and Content Summary

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.

Collection Arrangement

This collection is arranged topically.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Cambodian Americans -- California -- Long Beach -- Photographs.
Cambodian Americans -- California -- Long Beach -- Social life and customs -- Photographs.
Vietnamese Americans -- Massachusetts -- Lowell -- Photographs.
Vietnamese Americans -- Massachusetts -- Lowell -- Social life and customs -- Photographs.
Southeast Asian Americans -- Photographs.
Southeast Asian Americans -- Social life and customs -- Photographs.
Photographic prints -- 20th century.
Photographic prints -- 21st century.
Vietnamese Americans -- California -- Orange County -- Photographs.
Vietnamese Americans -- California -- Orange County -- Social life and customs -- Photographs.

box 1, folder 1

Little Saigon community in Garden Grove and Westminster, California 1998-2004

box 1, folder 2

Little Phnom Penh, Cambodian community in Long Beach, California 2004

box 1, folder 3

Cambodian community in Lowell, Massachusetts. 2004

box 1, folder 4

Other Southeast Asian American communities 1995-2004