Minnesota Chinese Oral History Project: Interview with Harry Chin

Titles: Minnesota Chinese Oral History Project: Interview with Harry Chin (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Harry Chin was born in China in the early 1920s. He immigrated to Minnesota in 1940 as a paper son. During the war he worked as a riveter, and then he worked at a variety of Chinese owned businesses, primarily restaurants. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: His family; father's immigration to the United States; his own immigration to the United States; wartime work; other employers - Yep Laundry, Canton Café, Kee's Chow Mein, Port Arthur Café, House of Ming, Nankin; his marriage in United States; his marriage in China; winning Chinese lottery; homes he owned; resolving the paper son issue; helping family members immigrate.

Dates

• 08/20/2002 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Chin, Harry
• interviewer: Fuller, Sherri Gebert

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 96
• Accession Number: AV2002.156.1

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Minnesota Chinese Oral History Project' <OH 96>

Quantity: 2 hours sound cassette 25 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 01:45:56 running time

Subjects

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