#queens memory project

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Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms of Queens! Photo from the Queens Library Digital Archives —  The Floating Hospital, 1937: http://qnslib.org/j4SD30bBWy6

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Share your love of Richmond Hill tomorrow with Queens Memory Project: http://qnslib.org/RzGM3035jGS

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Thanks to all who attended the launch of Living Memory: The Culture and Heritage of Chinese New Yorkers.

We would especially like to thank our guest speakers (top, left to right): Bridget Quinn-Carey (Queens Library Executive V.P. & COO), Eve Guillergan Esq. (Trustee), Beatrice Chen ( Museum of Chinese in America) Natalie Milbrodt, (Associate Coordinator of Metadata Services, Queens Memory Project), Peter Koo (Council Member), Zhang Hongtu (Artist), Jiayang Fan (Editor, The New Yorker), and Kian Lam Kho (food blogger).

Photos by Jingyi Zhang

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Class photo from Corona Select School, circa 1855.

In honor of Old Stuff Day, browse the Queens Library digital archive!

You can also help preserve Queens history by attending one of The Queens Memory Project events on March 5th in Woodhaven and Flushing.