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Irving Lee
Image Not Available for Irving Lee

Irving Lee

Dateabout 1920
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver print on paper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x width): 6 × 4in. (15.2 × 10.2cm)
Credit LineBequest of Roderick Bissell Jones
DescriptionBust-length studio portrait of a young Chinese man, Irving Lee, facing slightly to the left. He wears a buttoned shirt with vest, jacket and necktie.
Object number1974.56.433
InscribedHandwritten on verso in pencil: "IRVING LEE / Came from China when about 10. He / made his home with the camps at 672 / Main St. Winsted, Ct., two houses from / the Jones family while he went to / school and college here. His father / arranged a marriage for him & made / him return to China. He wanted not to go back. / He was much beloved by all the Jones' and the Camps' / He escape from the Communists to Hong Kong but is now 1960 dead / He was born about 1900."

Accession number in pencil on verso at bottom.
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