Manuscripts

Receipts, invoices, and deeds

Description: Some relate to Kenneth Y. Fung, but most of the material deals with Hong Fook Tong and Wong Kee Yup of Temaha County, California.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1890-1949
Call number: mssFung
Creator: Fung, Kenneth Y(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Louella Fung, December 2017.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Books, objects, and art

Manuscripts

This series is made up of books, owned by Kenneth Y. Fung and family members, objects that belonged to the Fung family, and Chinese calligraphy art, some of which are dedicated to Kenneth Y. Fung. There are two Chinese-English dictionaries, including Herman A. Giles' English-Chinese dictionary, 2nd edition, 1912, Chinese poetry books, and a copy of The Boy Scout handbook, 1940, that belonged to Herbert Fung, Kenneth Y. Fung's youngest son. The objects include two art brushes and an abacus. The art includes several Chinese calligraphy items, one still framed. Two are dedicated to Kenneth Y. Fung and dated 1946.

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Chinese poetry books

Manuscripts

Signed "Kenneth Y. Fung" on cover of one book.

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Notebook

Manuscripts

Belonged to Caroline Fung, Kenneth Y. Fung's sister.

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Calligraphy art

Manuscripts

Two pieces. Both are dedicated to Kenneth Y. Fung.

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Chinese-American calendar

Manuscripts

Published by U.S. Department of Labor. Bureau of Immigration. Signed "Kenneth Y. Fung" on inside front cover.

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Kenneth Y. Fung papers

Manuscripts

This collection consists of personal and professional papers of Kenneth Y. Fung. These papers include personal and business correspondence (including letters by immigration lawyer Y. C. Hong and Chinese rights activist, educator, and newspaper editor Walter U. Lum), documents, notes, immigration case files, notebooks, sympathy cards, newspaper clippings, copies of U.S. Senate bills, photographs and negatives, books, objects, and art, from 1890 to 2004 and the bulk covering 1915 to Fung's death in 1952. Also included are materials related to the Chinese American Citizens Alliance from 1923 to 1943. The majority of the collection deals with Fung's immigration work as a lawyer and Chinese Americans' rights advocacy, but a lot of the collection is personal in nature and provides details about his personal life and the Fung family and their lives in San Francisco, Chinatown, and the surrounding Bay Area of California.

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Receipts, invoices, and deeds

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