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Contributing Institution:
Chinese Historical Society of Southern California
Collection Number:
2009.M.1.Etter
Description:
The collection documents Etter's research about 19th century Chinese opium pipes and smoking at two sites: Donner Summit,
California and Virginia City, Nevada.
32 search terms found:
...A. , 1932-2013 Chinese Americans
Opium Chinese Americans -- History -- 19th...
...research about 19th century Chinese
opium pipes and smoking at two sites: Donner...
...is a copy of "West Coast Chinese and
Opium Smoking," Archeological Perspectives...
Contributing Institution:
UC Berkeley::Bancroft Library
Collection Number:
BANC MSS 99/320 cLOCAL
Description:
Scrapbook of clippings relating to the career of E.A. Holmes, mainly concerning opium-smuggling cases on San Francisco Bay.
These sensational accounts describe the creative tactics employed by Holmes in his arrests. The articles were collected by
Holmes and chiefly taken
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Contributing Institution:
Chinese Historical Society of Southern California
Collection Number:
2020.M.1..Costello
Description:
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
...
14 search terms found:
...Nevada ( Calif. And Nev. ) Chinese Artifacts Chinese Archeological Dig
Opium...
...Tins
Opium Paraphernalia Bowls Bottles Coins...
...Artifacts Chinese Archeological Dig
Opium Tins Opium Paraphernalia Bowls Bottles...
Contributing Institution:
UC Berkeley::Bancroft Library
Collection Number:
BANC MSS 2005/38 cLOCAL
Description:
Contains business cards of Chinese business owners in California, including Sun Chong Lung & Co., wholesale and retail dealers
in tea, sugar, rice, oil and opium, and Yan Tie Co., dealers in Chinese and Japanses Fancy goods.
Contributing Institution:
UC Berkeley::Bancroft Library
Collection Number:
Description:
Consists of pamphlets and newspaper clippings relating to street railways and cable cars of San Francisco; invoices, receipts,
invitations, order forms for opium and miscellaneous family papers and diaries. One folder of materials relating to Panama-Pacific
International Exposition in San
...
Contributing Institution:
UC Berkeley::Bancroft Library
Collection Number:
Description:
130 items of correspondence relating to the drug and medicine trade in San Francisco and California. Includes correspondence
with the firm's retailers in San Francisco, including Hostetter & Smith (later Hostetter, Smith & Dean), A.F. Downing & Son,
and the
...
Contributing Institution:
UC Berkeley::Bancroft Library
Collection Number:
Description:
8 folders of materials relating to business conducted by the Lanman and Kemp includes receipts for shipping items, newspaper
advertisement clippings, and correspondence with suppliers and retailers.
Contributing Institution:
UC Berkeley::Bancroft Library
Collection Number:
BANC PIC 1984.057--fALBLOCAL
Description:
Photographs show Colorado scenery, general views of Colorado towns, and railroads. Utah views focus on Salt Lake City and
show the Mormon Tabernacle and general views. California views include many from San Francisco: some from the California Mid-Winter
Exposition, views
...
Contributing Institution:
California State Library::California History Room
Collection Number:
MANUSCRIPT2736-2737
Description:
Large numbers of Chinese immigrants came to California during the early 1850s to hunt for gold, and many stayed to pursue
other lines of work. They maintained customs of their homeland, and were also the object of much prejudice and
...
Contributing Institution:
California State Library::California History Room
Collection Number:
MANUSCRIPT 2736-2737
Description:
Large numbers of Chinese immigrants came to California during the early 1850s to hunt for gold, and many stayed to pursue
other lines of work. They maintained customs of their homeland, and were also the object of much prejudice and
...
Contributing Institution:
Santa Paula Historical Society
Collection Number:
7-PF-145
Description:
Contains two documents: an opium order and a dedication
2 search terms found:
...Pharmacies Contains two documents: an
opium order and a dedication Santa Paula...
...93060 Contains two documents: an
opium order and a dedication Access none...
Contributing Institution:
UC Berkeley::Bancroft Library
Collection Number:
Description:
Consists of letters between Brimblecom family members and friends including the Rev. Samuel Brimblecom, his wife Harriet Buttrick
Brimblecom, and their children Charles, Edward, Capt. Samuel A. and Lucy Brimblecom, Charles H. Todd, and others. Topics include
temperance, anti-slavery, farming,
...
Contributing Institution:
California State Parks::Archives
Collection Number:
CSPA-327
Description:
Woodland Opera House State Historic Park, situated in Yolo County, is located in downtown Woodland. Woodland Opera House
became a State Historic Park in 1980 in order to restore the building. Reopened to the public in 1989, the Opera
...
4 search terms found:
...of Historic Places. Native Americans
Opium. Theater. Woodland Opera House Site (...
...Architecture. Chinese. Native Americans
Opium. Theater. Woodland Opera House...
...File System. 2 : 1 A Note on Chinese and
Opium Use September 27, 1982 2 : 2 An...
Contributing Institution:
UC Berkeley::Bancroft Library
Collection Number:
Description:
Consists of letters between Brimblecom family members including the Rev. Samuel Brimblecom, his wife Harriet Buttrick Brimblecom,
and their children Charles, Edward, Capt. Samuel A. and Lucy Brimblecom. Topics include temperance, anti-slavery, farming,
China and the Opium trade, education of
...
Contributing Institution:
California Historical Society
Collection Number:
PC-RM-Todd
Description:
Consists of seventeen photographs documenting the destructive effects of hydraulic mining. Includes images of washed-over
roads, ruined orchards, broken dams, riverbank gravel deposits, and working hydraulic hoses. Photos were taken in Nevada,
Sutter, and Yuba counties and feature the Yuba
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3 search terms found:
...Yuba River (Calif. ) -- Pictorial works
Opium -- Pictorial works Marysville (...
...U.S. Circuit Court, Cal. 3880 Boxes
Opium V. U.S.A. , U.S.Exhibits No. 26...
...California, Northern -- Photographs
Opium -- Pictorial works Waterfronts --...
Contributing Institution:
UCLA::Library Special Collections, Medicine and Science
Collection Number:
Biomed.0260
Description:
Collection contains a letter from the Secretary at Coleman's Gas-Works Manufacturing Company, on its printed letterhead, about
contract for delivering opium, on which he speculated, to him....
2 search terms found:
...about contract for delivering
opium, on which he speculated, to him.... UCLA...
...letterhead, about contract for delivering
opium, on which he speculated, to him....
Contributing Institution:
UCLA::Library Special Collections, Medicine and Science
Collection Number:
Biomed.0265
Description:
Collection contains A.L.s. from Wm. Woodward of Big Flats, N.Y. to "David J. Lawman & Co., Druggists & Chemists, no. 69 Water
Street, N.Y.", requisitioning medicines for his practice. Includes requests for: opium, sulfuric ether, chloroform, epsom
salts, blue pill
...
2 search terms found:
...his practice. Includes requests for:
opium, sulfuric ether, chloroform, epsom...
...his practice. Includes requests for:
opium, sulfuric ether, chloroform, epsom...
Contributing Institution:
UC Berkeley::Bancroft Library
Collection Number:
Description:
Correspondence, legal documents, and miscellany pertaining to the Hoag family in Sonoma County, California. Correspondence
includes: unsigned draft of speech on O.H. Hoag letterhead stationery (likely written by Obadiah Haight Hoag) making "a few
remarks about the Chinese" and recommending
...
Contributing Institution:
Chinese Historical Society of Southern California
Collection Number:
2017 M.5. Evans Chace
Description:
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
...
6 search terms found:
...containers, faunal fragments, munitions,
opium and tobacco paraphernalia. The...
...regarding 19th- century Chinese
opium-pipes and smoking materials. However, and...
...include pieces of clothing, shoes,
opium/tobacco paraphernalia, munitions,...
Contributing Institution:
Stanford University::Manuscripts Division
Collection Number:
M0534
Description:
The collection, spanning the years from 1800-1830, has been divided into four parts: outgoing and incoming correspondence
to and from Abraham Emmanuel Sautter; accounts and invoices related directly to AE Sautter and Sautter Freres; correspondence
and accounts to or from
...
6 search terms found:
...undated 4 17 Sautter
opium trade accounts, through Brown, Rogers & Brown (a...
...Oct-Nov 1807 6 8 More accounts with reference to
opium trade....
...box for more account references to
Opium Trade) Various accounts. French and...
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