Translation Program

Series — Multiple Containers

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This series contains administrative items from the Translation Program such as newspaper ads, mailers, and brochures, as well as samples of translated documents from various nonprofits, health agencies, government agencies, museums, and community organizations.

Dates

circa 1990s-2019

Conditions Governing Access

Appointments to examine materials must be made in advance. Please email QC.archives@qc.cuny.edu for more information or to schedule an appointment.

Biographical / Historical

The Asian/American Center's Translation Program was created to facilitate communication to communities by translating crucial documents from English into Chinese, Korean, and Spanish. The program translated documents produced by government agencies, health-care institutions, youth service groups, senior centers, nonprofit community organizations, arts groups, and programs that promote interethnic, interracial, and intercultural exchange. Examples of translated documents include Know Your Rights materials, immigrant services manuals, museum guides, and flyers for community events. Translation services were free to community agencies that were committed to printing and distributing the translated material. Hong Wu served as Director of the Translation Program.

Extent

From the Collection: 4.75 Linear Feet (5 Hollinger boxes (5"), 1 flat box (12"), 4 small boxes (5" each))

Language of Materials

English

Chinese

Korean

Spanish; Castilian

Additional Description

Processing Information

Due to the high volume of translation samples transferred to the archives, the archivist did not retain all translation documents. The archivist sampled materials by the following criteria: representing the variety of non-profit organizations and services they provided (health, community, arts, etc.) and the languages available for translation: Chinese, Korean and Spanish.

The value of these materials lies in their function, not the content of individual translations. Therefore, a sampling of the translations is sufficient to provide evidence of the range of organizations that requested translated documents from the A/AC Translation Program.