Legacies Project

Legacies Project - Yonkers Chinese

Images used in the Legacies Project section of Throughout the Ages.

Image. Photo of Johnnie Lew's Chinese Laundry, Washington, D.C.

Yonkers. Chinese. Photo of Johnnie Lew's Chinese Laundry, Washington D.C.
Photo of Johnnie Lew's Chinese laundry by Gordon Parks, Washington D.C. America from the Great Depression to World War II: Black-and-White Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945. Library of Congress, LC-USF34-013506-C, available online at www.loc.gov.

Image. Photo of Chinese Laundry, Nepperhan Avenue, Yonkers, 1935.

Yonkers. Chinese. Photo of Chinese Laundry, Nepperhan Avenue, Yonkers, 1935.
Photo of Chinese laundry at 139 Nepperhan Avenue, Yonkers. Circa 1935. Block 178, Lot 14. Courtesy of the Hudson River Museum.

Image. Exclusion Record of George D. Sing, 1923.

Yonkers. Chinese. Exclusion Record of George D. Sing, 1923.
Exclusion record of George D. Sing, born in Yonkers in 1883. January 13, 1923. National Archives and Records Administration Northeast Region.

Image. Excerpt from City of Yonkers Directory listing Chinese Laundries, 1936.

Yonkers. Chinese. Excerpt from City of Yonkers Directory listing Chinese Laundries, 1936.
Chinese Laundries in Yonkers, from 1936 City of Yonkers Directory. Courtesy of the Westchester Historical Society.