Where:
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boyleston St
Boston, MA 02215
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
History, Social Good
Event website:
https://www.masshist.org/events/aapi-voices-collections-massachusetts-historical-society
This event is in person. Light refreshments will be served.
Please visit here to register.
Join MHS’s 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.