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English: Chinese girls working on famine relief fund, May 1921   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Webster & Stevens
Title
English: Chinese girls working on famine relief fund, May 1921
Description
English: In 1920 and 1921, up to twenty-five million people died in a famine in northern China. Seattle's Chinese residents raised money at the Go-Hing festival for the Chinese Famine Fund and other relief efforts.

In this photo, Lily Chinn (left) and Florence Chinn (right) sell tickets for tours of Chinatown at a branch of the Scandinavian-American Bank in Seattle. They are also selling stamps for the Chinese Famine Fund and chances on a carpet. Florence Chinn was Queen of the Go-Hing festival.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Chinese American women; Go-Hing (Event) (1921 : Seattle, Wash." Community service; Famines
  • People: Chinn, Lily; Chinn, Florence
Depicted place
English: Seattle (Wash.)
Date Taken on 1 May 1921
Medium
English: 1 negative : nitrate, b&w
Dimensions height: 8 in (20.3 cm); width: 10 in (25.4 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,8U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,10U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Museum of History and Industry
Accession number
5084
Source
English: Museum of History and Industry
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
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PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved

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