Event
AAPI Voices from the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Peter Drummey, Chief Historian & Stephen T. Riley Librarian
Rakashi Chand, Reading Room Supervisor
This event is in person. Light refreshments will be served.
Join MHS Chief Historian, Peter Drummey, and Reading Room Supervisor, Rakashi Chand, for a look at some of the material in our collections that explore Asian American history and the history of American merchant trade throughout Asia. Items featured will include a letter between Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and Ellery Sedgwick, the editor of the Atlantic Monthly; watercolor paintings of a Japanese Internment Camp made by Estell Ishigo, a Caucasian woman who followed her Japanese husband to Heart Mountain; a painting of the Harbor at Macao by Lam Qua; and many more treasures from the MHS collections.
In person event.
Masks are optional for this event.
