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[Chinese War Relief Association group portraits].
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Title:
[Chinese War Relief Association group portraits]Creator/Contributor:
May's Photo StudioAbstract:
Includes group portraits of members of the Oakland Chinese War Relief Association and the Chinese Famine Relief Association
of Oakland. Also includes 2 panoramic group portraits, perhaps depicting members of the same or similar organizations.
Date:
1940 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caChinese War Relief Association -- Photographs
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Civilian relief
Chinese Americans -- California -- Oakland -- Portraits
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Collected by donor's mother, Jung Shee Wong (or Wang?). Note on back of one print: Grandma Wang Chinese Relief Assoc.
Identified photographer of one panoramic portrait: May's Photo Studio of San Francisco's Chinatown.
Chinese War Relief Association group portraits, BANC PIC 2020.002, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Pamphlet on the 1953 dedication of the Chinese Community Center (Oakland, Calif.) transferred to the Book Collections of The
Bancroft Library.
After the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937, the Chinese War Relief Association was established in San Francisco's
Chinatown. The organization aimed to raise funds from Chinese communities across the U.S. to assist Chinese civilians impacted
by the conflict.
Type:
graphicPortraits.
Panoramic photographs.
Physical Description:
photoprint
4 photographs in 2 folders : gelatin silver and xerographic prints ; various sizes
Language:
mul