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Depicts Wong Sun Yue and Ella May Clemens. Inscribed in ink at bottom of card: "Mr Mrs Wong Sun Yue Clemens.
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[Mr. and Mrs. Wong Sun Yue Clemens]
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| Creator | |
| Date Created |
[1915?]
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| Description |
Depicts Wong Sun Yue and Ella May Clemens. Inscribed in ink at bottom of card: "Mr Mrs Wong Sun Yue Clemens.
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image/jpeg
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| Notes |
Wong and Clemens met in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and subsequently married. They opened a curio and tea shop in Chinatown and published a series of postcards of themselves to promote the store. For more information, see Bowen, Robert W and Brenda Young Bowen, San Francisco's Chinatown (South Carolina: Arcadia 2008), 41-6.
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| Identifier |
CC-PH-00132; CC_PH_00132
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| Collection | |
| Source |
Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. The Chung Collection. CC_PH_00132
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| Date Available |
2015-11
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| Provider |
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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| Rights |
Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections: http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca/
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| DOI |
10.14288/1.0220028
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| Category |
Images of Chinese people and communities in North America
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| RBSCLocation |
Box 1
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| Aggregated Source Repository |
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Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections: http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca/