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Artifacts, circa 1900s-1940s, inclusive

Scope and Content Note

This series contains artifacts recovered by Yoland Skeete from the old Newark Chinatown. These materials include books in Chinese on folklore and fortune telling, a Chinese shadow puppet, and a copy of a marriage certificate from a family who lived in Newark's Chinatown.

Fortune Telling Book, circa 1940s, inclusive

Box: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Language of Materials

Materials are in Chinese

History of Toishan Book, circa 1930s-1940s, inclusive

Box: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Language of Materials

Materials are in Chinese

Shadow Puppet, undated

Box: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Soo Hoo Marriage Certificate, early 1900s

Box: Shared Tamiment 008 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012