San Francisco's Bowl of Rice Party banner, 1940
date: label: date made
content: 1940
name: label: Artist
content: Lee, Kem
notes: label: Description
content: This banner was probably used during Bowl of Rice party events in San Francisco in February 1940. Between 1938 and 1941, Chinese Americans led fundraising efforts, known as Bowl of Rice parties, to raise money to aid Chinese civilians suffering in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). Leaders organized Bowl of Rice party events in San Francisco’s and New York’s Chinatowns, along with in over two thousand communities across the country. The drives featured parades, concerts, pageants, and other activities. Participants displayed banner such as this one along parade routes.
label: Description
content: To learn more about the history of Bowl of Rice parties, please see this blog post:
label: Description
content: <a href=" https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/bowl-rice-party"><i>link text</i></a>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, San Francisco
label: Associated Place
content: China
topic: label: referenced
content: Philanthropy
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content: Work and Industry: Philanthropy
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Daniel Ostroff
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0216.01
label: accession number
content: 2017.0216
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0216.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: banner
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric; wood; paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 77.5 cm x 53 cm x 1 cm; 30 1/2 in x 20 7/8 in x 13/32 in