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"The Chinese Question," Seattle Daily Post-Intelligencer, March 3, 1886
Seattle's earliest Chinese residents are believed to have arrived in the early 1860s, and while welcomed at first for the role they played in the region's development, Chinese immigrants were not allowed to vote and were subjected to numerous laws that restricted their rights. In the mid-1870s and early 1880s the national economy took a downturn, increasingly leading white workers…
ID Number:2022.3.3.36.1
Date:1886
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Mark Ten Suie, Seattle, circa 1885
Mark Ten Suie, also known as Ten Suie Mark and T.S. Mark, was a Chinese American merchant working in Seattle in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Born in China around 1861, he immigrated to the US around 1872, arriving in the Seattle area around 1876, though published records of the exact date vary. Beginning around 1888, entries in…
ID Number:2024.33.1
Date:circa 1885
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Mark Ten Suie Trading Company ledger, 1899 - 1906
Mark Ten Suie, also known as Ten Suie Mark and T.S. Mark, was a Chinese American merchant working in Seattle in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Born in China around 1861, he immigrated to the US around 1872, arriving in the Seattle area around 1876, though published records of the exact date vary. Beginning around 1888, entries in…
ID Number:2024.33.2
Date:1899
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Stock certificate for Mark Ten Suie Trading Company, October 1899
Mark Ten Suie, also known as Ten Suie Mark and T.S. Mark, was a Chinese American merchant working in Seattle in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Born in China around 1861, he immigrated to the US around 1872, arriving in the Seattle area around 1876, though published records of the exact date vary. Beginning around 1888, entries in…
ID Number:2024.33.7
Date:1899
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Oral history interview with Laura Lee Kusaka, August 19, 2024
Interview with Laura Lee Kusaka by the 2024 MOHAI Curator's Fellow Polly Yorioka about Kusaka's mother Massie "Yutani" Tomita, including her life in Seattle’s Japanese American community, the Yutani family’s immigration story, and life in Seattle before incarceration during the second World War. The interview is conducted by Yorioka in order to learn more about the Boys’ and Girls’ Day…
ID Number:2024.52.1
Date:2024
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Chong Wa Education Society fundraising dinner flier, Seattle, 2017
The Chong Wa Benevolent Association was founded in the late 1890s by Seattle’s Chinese community to create a federation of its diverse group of Chinese family and district associations, societies, and businesses. Its purpose was to administer Chinatown politics and support Chinese causes in the non-Chinese community. Over the years, the Association has provided its members with a broad spectrum…
ID Number:2025.10.6
Date:2017
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Chong Wa Benevolent Association and Education Society brochure, Seattle, circa 2015
The Chong Wa Benevolent Association was founded in the late 1890s by Seattle’s Chinese community to promote social and cultural welfare and support Chinese causes in the greater community. This brochure gives a history of the Association and describes its wide variety of programs and activities. These have included financial and legal assistance, language and citizenship classes, performing arts, and…
ID Number:2025.10.10
Date:Circa 2015
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Poster for Luck Ngi Music Society's benefit for the Chong Wa Benevolent Association, printed in Chinese, October 1975
Founded in 1938, Seattle’s Luck Ngi Music Society specialized in Chinese opera. Located at 512 Seventh Avenue South, they often practiced and performed at nearby Chong Wa Hall. In 1975, as advertised on this flier, the group performed the Chinese opera “Bloodbath” as a benefit for the Chong Wa Benevolent Association. Edward Shui “Ping” Chow (photo third from the right)…
ID Number:2025.10.17
Date:1975
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Chinese language poster advertising performance by Seattle Chinese arts group in Vancouver, August 1962
This poster advertises an upcoming performance at the Majestic Theater in Vancouver BC by the Seattle-based Xiu Zhen Chinese Arts Group on August 19, 1962. Billed as "one performance only," the show included Cantonese opera excerpts performed by Ping Chow (center bottom), a leader in Seattle's Chinese American community and the husband of Ruby Chow; the Cantonese opera movie star,…
ID Number:2025.10.24
Date:1962
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Northwest corner of S. Jackson St. and 6th Ave S., Seattle, circa 1925
The Rainier Heat & Power Company was founded in 1912 by William M. Chappell (1867-1921). A successful businessman and gold prospector, he came to Seattle in 1900 to invest in real estate. The Rainier Heat & Power Co. maintained a heating plant and developed buildings in Seattle's Chinatown - International District. Rainier Heat & Power Co. is listed in city…
ID Number:Lib1990.21.2
Date:Circa 1925