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Wing Soo Hoo family papers.
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Wing Soo Hoo family papersCreator/Contributor:
Soo Hoo (Family, creator, creator.Abstract:
Contains certificates and identification, correspondence, documents, material from 1906 and 1908 calendars, and a bound business
ledger.
Date:
1880 (issued)Subject:
n-us-ca -- a-cc---Soo Hoo family -- Archives
Soo Hoo, Wing -- 1858-1944 -- Archives
Soo Hoo, Wing -- 1858-1944 -- Correspondence
Soo Wing & Co. -- Archives
Soo Wing & Co. -- Correspondence
Chinese American business enterprises -- California -- Oakland
Chinese American businesspeople -- California -- Oakland
Chinese American families -- California -- Oakland
Chinese Americans -- California -- Oakland
Note:
Wing Soo Hoo family papers, BANC MSS 2018/269, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Purchase from Michael Vinson; 2018.
Photographs transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 2018.100)
Yee Wing Soo Hoo (1858-1944) emigrated from China to the United States in 1882, eventually settling in Oakland, California.
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.
In Chinese and English.
Type:
Account books.Physical Description:
print
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Language:
English
Chinese