A City of Refugees, the Memories of Cambodia Collection
| A City of Refugees, the Memories of Cambodia Collection | |
|---|---|
| Held by | University of Massachusetts Lowell, Center for Lowell History |
| Scope | Cambodian students' written and drawn memories of Cambodia |
| Catalogue reference | commonwealth:1n79h429p |
| Subjects | Migration & Diaspora; Family & Intergenerational Life; Literature & Storytelling |
A City of Refugees, the Memories of Cambodia Collection holds stories and artwork by young Cambodian students in Lowell, Massachusetts, and is held at the Center for Lowell History. (Digital Commonwealth collection record)
Overview
The collection was donated by Dorothea Gemos Tsapasaris, who taught English as a Second Language in the Lowell schools. She gathered and arranged her students' accounts and artwork about their lives in Cambodia for publication in the national children's literary magazine Stone Soup in the late 1980s and early 1990s. (Digital Commonwealth collection record)
Material coverage
The material consists of the students' written stories and their artwork. The published record does not state counts, formats, languages or a date range for individual items, and no interviews or recordings are described. (Digital Commonwealth collection record)
Catalogue and access
The collection identifier is commonwealth:1n79h429p in Digital Commonwealth and the record states no access conditions. The Center for Lowell History publishes 44 digital collections there and is located downtown in the Patrick J. Mogan Cultural Center in Lowell, Massachusetts. (Digital Commonwealth collection record) (Center for Lowell History in Digital Commonwealth)