Wooden Drawer For 19th & early 20th Century School Records of Chinese Immigrant Students in Manhattan
Year Conserved
2022
Holding Institution
Museum of Chinese in America
Object Name/Description
$2,200 for the conservation of a wooden drawer that holds school records of Chinese immigrant students born in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who attended various schools in Manhattan.
To be exhibited in the new core exhibition, the drawer and its records help share stories of the expansion and development of Chinatown.
$4,588 for the conservation of five stoneware vessels made by free Black potter Thomas W. Commeraw who operated his own pottery in lower Manhattan from about 1797 to 1819. The pottery will be featured in an upcoming exhibition telling the story of his life.
Conservator: Give Me A Break Conservation Services
A Signature Quilt made in Peconic, New York, by Harriet Penny Jefferson (1850-1935) circa 1880, with 36 hand pieced squares with cotton batting and backed with a mourning print