Collections - APA

Discover a wealth of archival collections that document, preserve, and illuminate the diverse experiences of Asian/Pacific/Americans.

Building and increasing access to archival collections is a crucial component of our mission to support artistic and scholarly projects, and to document A/P/A histories.

Illustration of workers from Topaz concentration camp watching other workers depart for jobs outside the camp.

Karl Ichiro Akiya Papers

Andolan members walk in a group behind a sign that reads

Andolan (Organizing South Asian Workers) Records

Open bookcases with glass doors.

A/P/A Library

Photograph of man standing in front of black and white mural by Richard Choi painted on wooden boards. Mural includes four portraits and the text “Yellow Peril supports Black Power.” The slide is captioned, “Mural by Richard Choi, photo by Eddie Kochiyama.”

Records of the A/P/A Voices: A COVID-19 Public Memory Project

Red, white, and blue stripped button laying on a wodden surface. at the top of the button, there is a sticker with two hands that says

Tomie Arai and Legan Wong Papers

An audio tape reel for an Asian American Special epsiode that featured Dr Michio Kaku and Sybil Wong

Asia Pacific Forum (APF) Records

Perry Yung, Fred Ho, Marina Celander, and Corky Lee at the Asian American Arts Alliance gala, posing for photo in front of a white backdrop.

Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) Records

Crop of Exhibition postcard for China: June 4, 1989..., 1992. Featuring the Last Banquet (1989) by Zhang Hongtu.

Asian American Arts Centre (AAAC) Records

6th to 11th edition of Chinatown Labor Fair journals

Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) Records

Asian CineVision (ACV) Records

A collection of tapes for the Asian Garment Workers in New York City Oral History Collection

Asian Garment Workers in New York City Oral History Collection

Members of the Asian/Pacific/American Institute sitting next to each other and posing for a photo.

Records of the Asian/Pacific/American Institute

A photograph of APALA Demonstration in San Francisco

Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) Records

Asian Women United (AWU) Records and Oral History Collection

A pale yellow background with drawings of two houses in black ink.

Betty Bressi Papers

Still image from the film

Shu Lea Cheang Papers

Various buttons

May Chen Papers

The image consist of a turquoise

Laura Chen-Schultz Collection on Asian Working Artists (AWA)

Fay Chiang holding a film camera, taking a self portrait in a mirror

Fay Chiang Papers

Newsletter 1st Edition, 4th Week (Left) 1973, Newsletter 1st Edition, 5th Week (Center) 1973, Asian Unite Newsletter (Right)

Rocky Chin Papers

Left: A closed copy of Chin's memoir with his photograph and immigration record on the cover. Right: A closed copy of a book entitled

Tung Pok Chin and Wing Fong Chin Papers and Photographs

Colored photographs of Dr Gloria Wong in her later life

Gloria Wong Chung Papers and Photographs

Collage of promotional postcards from Epoxy's show

Epoxy Art Group Archive

Ming Fay sitting at a kitchen table with various sculptures resembling fruits and vegetables.

Ming Fay Papers

A group of people in the street hold signs saying,

GAPIMNY Records

Yun Gee Papers

A photographed image of Word Gets Around Project

Godzilla Asian American Art Network Archive

A collage of 3 front cover of comic books from

Larry Hama Comic Book Collection

A photograph of part of the box set, Yellow Pearl.

Arlan Huang and Lillian Ling Huang Papers

Unfolded Rafu Shimpo newspaper featuring Special Pull Out Section on the release of a book entitled

Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Collection of Japanese American Newspapers

A photographed image of CT Outing

Japanese American Social Services, Inc. (JASSI) Records

New York Nichibei Directory

Isaku and Emi Kida Papers

Yoshi Kishi photographed in his office, surrounded by overflowing bookshelves and collections material.

Yoshio Kishi Papers

A photograph of trade cards featuring stereotypical images of Asians from the Yoshio Kishi Collection.

Yoshio Kishi and Irene Yah-Ling Sun Collection

Photographs of Topaz Demolition Site

Michi Kobi Papers

Midori Shimanouchi Lederer (center) with two JASSI board members. They are standing in front of a JASSI banner with red letters on a white backdrop.

Midori Shimanouchi Lederer Papers

Activist from Chinese for Affirmative Action stand in a line, holding signs and a yellow chain to protest Weh Ho Lee's nine months of solitary confinement.

Wen Ho Lee News Articles Collection

NYTWA members marching with a a green banner that says,

New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA) Records

Photograph of the Race Riot #2 zine. The pages are laid out to reveal multiple articles.

Mimi Thi Nguyen Zine Collection

Cassette Tapes from Pauline Park

Pauline Park Papers

Peeling Records

Queer New Year parade poster

Q-Wave Costumes and Posters from Lunar New Year for All Parades

A collage of poster for Radio Bandung

Radio Bandung Collection

A photograph of Krishna and NYU Students

Krishna Reddy Papers

An image that was featured on the cover of DJ Rekha's album,

DJ Rekha Papers

Photograph of shot from movie

Jack G. Shaheen Papers

A photograph for the Yoland Skeete Newark Chinatown papers

Yoland Skeete Research Files on Newark Chinatown

Multi-color postcard collage of images from various performances with

Slant Performance Group Records

5 Soh Daiko Drummers featured in this image

Soh Daiko Records

SALGA members marching with red banner.

Atif Toor Collection on SALGA NYC

court transcripts (bottom right), Disks of the trial proceedings (top center), a DVD of an A/P/A Event entitled,

Chai Soua Vang Trial Documents

A collage of photographs from Tracey Nguyen Mang

Vietnamese Boat People Podcast Records

Bandwagon magazines

Takako Wada Papers

The image consist of a collection of magazines published for Asian Pacific American Week. The image is focused on the cover for the year of 1981.

Darlene Wone Papers

Artwork with neighborhood scene and brick building multiple stories high, with windows and doors featuring different people.

Martin Wong Papers

Two comic panels illustrated by William F. Wu. Peter Parker, wearing a graduation cap and gown, confronts Phillip Chang.

William F. Wu Comics Collection

Hon. Sue Pai Yang sitting besides other judges, photographed for an article of the New Jersey Law Journal newspaper.

Hon. Sue Pai Yang Papers

Photograph of two aMagazine covers.

Jeff Yang Collection on A. Magazine

Three papers in yellow, blue, and pink describing Basement Workshop programming.

Danny Yung Papers

George Yuzawa Papers

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