Archive and Museum Items
1975-1977
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Contents
This series is processed at the folder-level. This series includes a copy of a draft of the CHSSC Constitution with notes
by Paul Louie, one of the founders of CHSSC. There are also images that had once been exhibited of Chinese workers in Gates
Farm in Eagle Rock from the late 1800s to early 1900s. As well as museum displays from CHSSC.
Box 1, folder 1
Gate Farm Workers Museum Display
undated
Box 1, folder 16
"Day of Lotus" Certificate to CHSSC
1976
Box 1, folder 17
Museum Display from CHSSC
undated
Print Material
1892-1977 (bulk 1970-1976), undated
Scope and Contents
This series is processed at the folder-level. It contains books and other print material related to the Chinese American experience
from as early as 1989, but the bulk of the material is from the 1970s. Included in this series is Gin Chow's Almanac from
1932 in the Books and book chapters subseries, as well as newspaper clippings from the 1970s and community flyers.
Box 1, folder 14
Correspondence and License Plate
1977
Scope and Contents
Beaver County, PA commemorative license plate with correspondence detailing items from Chinese workers in the Beaver Falls
Museum from historian Sidney A. Kane.
Box 2
Postcards
undated
Scope and Contents
Thirteen postcards of different Chinatowns from Los Angeles and San Francisco, California.
Box 1, folder 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, Box 2
Books and Book Chapters
1902-1976, undated
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains a 4th and 6th edition copy of Gin Chow's Almanac, as well as a book on treaties between China and
foreign powers from 1902. There are also copies of books and book chapters about the history of Los Angeles County in folders
10 and 14. In folders 3, 5, 9, 12, and 15 there are materials related to Chinese American History and Chinese holiday materials.
Box 1, folder 4, 7, Box 2
Magazines
1892-1972, undated
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains primarily print magazines including a copy of the California Illustrated Magazine from 1892 as well
as a copy of Reader's Digest and a magazine from the Chinese Library of America in San Francisco.
Box 1, folder 6, 8, 18
Newspaper Clippings
1973-1975, undated
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains newspaper clippings from the 1970s. Found in this subseries, in Folder 8 is a grouping of newspaper
clippings about Chinese New Year celebrations from 1975, including clippings from Hollywood Independent and another unknown
source. Folder 6 includes clipping from the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle related to Chinese American life.
Folder 8 also includes accompanying community flyers about local Chinese New Year events. Folder 18 contains a grouping titled
"Contemporary Chinese Material" of newspaper clippings from the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and Griffith
Park News dated in the 1970s.
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