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Article: UC Berkeley organizes Asian American photo archive
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- Oakland Tribune
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- September 5, 2008
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BERKELEY -- The Ethnic Studies Library at UC Berkeley has
recently completed organizing and archiving what is thought to be
one of the largest Asian American photograph collections held in a
public institution worldwide, university officials said.
With a $180,000 grant from the National Historical Publications
and Records Commission, more than 200,000 photos taken by
professional photographer Kem Lee, documenting San Francisco's
Chinatown from the 1940s to the 1980s, were sorted, labeled,
cataloged and neatly placed in Manila folders.
Researchers, scholars, filmmakers and others have come from all
over the world to see the photos and use them for their work, said
UC Berkeley Asian American ...