1900 - 1910 Chinese American Woman's Blouse
date: label: date made
content: ca 1905
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: In America, Mrs. Lee wore this tunic-length satin blouse with side buttons made from 1890 Hong Kong coins. The generously cut blouse or sam, often reaching the calf, was worn over trousers.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Mrs. Lee wore traditional Chinese clothes when she occasionally accompanied her children to the local movie houses. According to her daughter Grace, since she did not understand English she made up her own storyline to accompany the films’ images.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: China
topic: label: referenced
content: Immigration
label: referenced
content: Immigrants
label: used
content: Chinese Americans
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content: Home and Community Life: Costume
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Chinese American
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Mead, Virginia Lee. Lee Chinese -American Family Papers, ca. 1915-1970
label: Related Web Publication
content: https://sova.si.edu/record/nmah.ac.0555
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of James Edgar Mead and Virginia Lee Mead
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0620.08
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0620.08
label: accession number
content: 1992.0620
objectType: label: Object Name
content: blouse, woman's
label: Object Type
content: Main Dress
label: Object Type
content: Blouse
label: Object Type
content: Woman
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 75 cm x 90 cm; 29 1/2 in x 35 7/16 in