Kam Wah Chung: A Historical Archive of Chinese Medicine in Rural Oregon

About This Grant

The Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, working in collaboration with the historic Kam Wah Chung & Company Museum in John Day, Oregon, through this project will create an online digital archive that includes images and translations of various Chinese medical artifacts stored in the museum, which is a designated National Landmark. This digital archive will be of interest to those concerned with Oregon history, the Chinese immigrant experience in the American West, and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Many of the items in this collection are fragile, and in order to preserve the collection, members of the general public are restricted from accessing the artifacts at the museum; by building a digital representation of this collection and translating the written materials, we will further increase access to and interest in the collection.