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Soo Hoo, Wing [Photographs from the Wing Soo Hoo family papers].
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[Photographs from the Wing Soo Hoo family papers]Creator/Contributor:
Soo Hoo, Wing, creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Boussum Photo, photographer.Abstract:
Family portraits and snapshots pertaining to Wing Soo Hoo of Oakland, Calif. and multiple generations of his descendants.
Includes multiple portraits of Wing. The bulk of the collection pertains to Wing's son Donald Soo Hoo's service in the U.S.
Army Air Forces during World War II, chiefly depicting Donald and his fellow soldiers, in Europe during wartime and at home.
One snapshot depicts a U.S. military chaplain posing beside a German concentration camp incinerator. Collection also includes
photographs of Donald's mother Lo Shee Shoo Hoo and other family members, and a panoramic group portrait of members of the
Chinese Presbyterian Church, Oakland, Calif., taken on Easter Sunday, April 20, 1930 (oversize C folder).
Date:
1890 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caChinese Americans -- California -- Photographs
Chinese American families -- California -- Photographs
Chinese Americans -- Portraits
Soldiers -- United States -- Photographs
World War, 1939-1945 -- Photographs
Chinese Americans
California
United States. -- Army Air Forces -- Photographs
Soo Hoo, Wing -- Archives
Soo Hoo, Wing -- Portraits
Soo Hoo, Donald -- Photographs
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Collected by Wing family.
Backs of some prints include hand-written captions, some in Chinese, some in English.
Identified photographers include Boussum Photo (Oakland), Shaw & Shaw (Oakland), Scharz (Oakland) and Fong Get (San Francisco).
Transferred from the Wing Soo Hoo family papers (BANC MSS 2018/269).
Purchase ; From Michael Vinson; 2018.
Yee Wing Soo Hoo (1858-1944) emigrated from China to the United States in 1882, eventually settling in Oakland, Calif. He
was the proprietor of Soo Wing & Co., selling Chinese art goods, furnishings, etc., located in Oakland's Chinatown. Wing's
son Donald Soo Hoo (1922-2009) served in the U.S. military during World War II as a member of the U.S. Army Air Forces' 155th
Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron.
Photographs from the Wing Soo Hoo family papers, BANC PIC 2018.100, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Portraits.
Physical Description:
photoprint
approximately 100 photographs in 1 box and 1 oversize folder : chiefly gelatin silver prints ; 20 x 55 cm or smaller
Language:
mul