Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- In 1906 Ng Shee Lee packed her clothes and belongings in this trunk and left China for America. It was a difficult trip. She slept next to the noisy engine room; arriving tired and sick in San Francisco she was met by the devastating 1906 earthquake. Ng Shee then made her way alone by train across Canada to New York where she rejoined her husband, Lee B. Lok.
- Description
- In 1906 Nge Shee Lee packed her clothes and belongings in this trunk and left China for America. It was a difficult trip. She slept next to the noisy engine room; arriving tired and sick in San Francisco she was met by the devastating 1906 earthquake. Ng Shee then made her way alone by train across Canada to New York where she rejoined her husband.
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- unknown
- date made
- ca 1906
- Credit Line
- Gift of James Edgar Mead and Virginia Lee Mead
- Physical Description
- leather (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- trunk closed: 34 cm x 46 cm x 70 cm; 13 3/8 in x 18 1/8 in x 27 9/16 in
- Object Name
- trunk
