NEW YORK • When a fire ripped through the upper floors of the red brick building that held the archives of the Museum of Chinese in America, the staff thought that all was lost.
The second floor of 70 Mulberry Street, a 130-year-old building that is a cherished cultural landmark in Manhattan's Chinatown, had been home to 85,000 items that helped tell the story of more than a century of Chinese-American history and culture.
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