Kam Wah Chung & Co. Museum
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found: Micnhimer, Carolyn Frances. Antidotes and anecdotes, 2012:page 1 (Kam Wah Chung & Co. Museum) rear cover (Kam Wah Chung Museum)
found: Wikipedia, viewed 4/6/2015(Kam Wah Chung & Co. Museum; also known as Kam Wah Chung Company Building; built in 1866 or 1867 as a trading post along a wagon road later known as The Dalles Military Road, it later became the center of the Chinese community in John Day, Oregon, as a store and apothecary run by Ing Hay (known also as "Doc Hay") and Lung On, Chinese immigrants from Guangdong. Kam Wah Chung & Co. Museum contains one of the most extensive collections of materials from the century-long influx of Chinese immigrants in the American West.
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2015-04-09: new
2015-04-10: revised
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