Lee Chinese-American Family Papers
name: label: Creator
content: Mead, Virginia Lee
topic: label: Topic
content: Family -- 20th century
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated by Alison Shue (Mrs. John) Lee and Mrs. Poon Lam Mok (Grace Lee) of New York, through Virginia (Mrs. Robert H.) Mead of Washington, D.C., 1994.
creator: label: Creator
content: Mead, Virginia Lee
setName: label: See more items in
content: Lee Chinese-American Family Papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: Scrapbook, photograph album, published family book, photographic prints, and news clippings related to Virginia Mead's family.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1915-1970
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The Archives Center was alerted to the scrapbooks by Richard Ahlborn, Curator in the Division of Community Life (now Division of Cultural and Community Life), with whom they were originally placed on loan.  Grace Lee is the sister of Mrs. Mead and Alison Shue is her niece.  The collection was assigned NMAH non-accession no. 1994.3135, and is related to accession no. 1992.0634.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0555
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photograph albums
label: Type
content: Clippings
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by David Haberstich, undated.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photograph albums
label: Genre/Form
content: Clippings
label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of a scrapbook, a photograph album, and a published family book with Chinese text and reproductions of portrait photographs.  The scrapbook and album contain clippings and memorabilia from the Lee family, which had emigrated from China to New York, and miscellaneous unmounted photographs.  This material dates primarily from the 1920s to the 1940s, although a few items are as late as 1970.  Most of the persons in the photographs are not identified, although travel pictures in such places as Hawaii and Haiti are captioned.  However, a few newspaper clippings in the collection in which photographs apparently depict members of the Lee and Shue families and/or the articles relate to them.