The Chace and Evans collection was originally created in 1967 by archeologists Paul G. Chace and Bill Evans, the collection was used by Patricia A. Etter in the 1970's to sythesize her own research regarding 19th- century Chinese opium-pipes and...
The Cambria Collection is a research project conducted by Roberta S. Greenwood, Dana N. Slawson, and Linda Bentz on the Chinese population in Cambria, San Luis Obispo County, California. Most of the research focuses on the Chinese Center, namely the...
Contains convention proceedings, photographs, letters, essays, newspaper articles, newsletters and publications, mailers, flyers and advertisements, meeting agendas, handwritten notes, pamphlets, membership lists, event programs, and resolutions. The content of the materials covers events related to the CACA, particularly the 39th...
The DeFalla Family collection consists of CHSSC founding documents, papers and artifacts reflecting Chinese American life, collected by the DeFalla family. It is arranged at a series and sub-series level. This collection is important to CHSSC because it contains items...
This collection contains research material that principle editor, Marjorie Lee, used to write Duty and Honor: A Tribute to Chinese American World War II Veterans of Southern California. Materials include photocopies of records on Chinese American World War II veterans,...
Ella Yee Quan was an educator in the Los Angeles Unified School District as well as an active community leader in numerous educational, civic, and cultural groups. In 1975, she helped found the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California (CHSSC),...
The Fritz Family collection consists of photographs, papers, and artifacts left behind by three generations of the Fritz Family in Los Angeles. It is arranged at a series level. This collection is importatnt to CHSSC because it gives a glimpse...
Over a total of four days in 1983 and 1984, surface collections were made at the Donner Summit site by archaeologist Julia Costello and her husband Jeff Tuttle. This work camp, occupied between 1865 and 1869 by Chinese construction workers...
Lily Lum Chan was active in a number of organizations including Chinese Women's New Life Movement Club, Women's International Club, Republican Party, and YWCA. The collection contains copies of Chinese/English newspapers and magazines of undetermined value. Box FB003 contains important...
Robert Nash was a PhD student at the University of California, Los Angeles conducting research on Chinese fisheries and related industries in the 19th century. Shortly after his dissertation was completed in 1973 and he earned his Doctoral Degree in...
The collection documents Etter's research about 19th century Chinese opium pipes and smoking at two sites: Donner Summit, California and Virginia City, Nevada.
The Paul G. Chace Ephemera Collection is an assortment of memorabilia collected by anthroplogist and arheologist, Paul G. Chace. This collection is a part of a larger donation from Chace to CHSSC that, as a whole, were split into five...
Approximately 1,270 black and white photos of Peiping (Beijing), Soochow (Suzhou), Nanking (Nanjing), Shanghai, the Great Wall of China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Tsinanfu (Jinan), as well as of the ocean journey via San Francisco, Hawaii, and Yokohama, from 1933...
The Chinese Historical Society of Southern California (CHSSC) and the UCLA Asian Studies Center (AASC) conducted the Southern California Chinese American Oral History Project from 1978 to 1984. They collected 165 oral histories, from which transcripts, summaries, indices, and the...
In 2005 MTA unearthed a Potters Cemetery when widening the street during Goldline construction in East LA. This portion of the cemetery contained 118 graves. One fourth of the gravesites were determined to be Chinese. The Susan G. Dickson collection...