Asians in Minnesota Oral History Project: Interview with Margaret Woo Chinn

Titles: Asians in Minnesota Oral History Project: Interview with Margaret Woo Chinn (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Margaret Woo Chinn's father and some of his brothers (including Woo Yee Sing, whose son Howard Woo was also interviewed for this oral history project) came to the United States in the late 1870s and 1880s and worked in laundries and on railroads. Chinn was born in China in 1912, and in 1914 her father brought the family to the United States. They settled in Minneapolis and were involved in running a gift shop and a family restaurant, the long-popular John's Place that closed in 1967. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Family history and the early Chinese community in Minneapolis.

Dates

• 05/27/1982 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Chinn, Margaret Woo
• interviewer: Mason, Sarah R.

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 51
• Accession Number: AV1982.159

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Asians in Minnesota Oral History Project' <OH 51>

Quantity: 2 hours sound cassette 94 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 01:39:46 running time

Subjects

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