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Skar Chinese collection.
MANUSCRIPT2736-2737
Collection Overview

Title:

Skar Chinese collection

Date:

18uu (issued)

Contents:

Box 2736: Realia, primarily gambling, calligraphy, and opium implements; Box 2737: Paper items, documents, cards, and photographs; Room 355, Range E, Shelf b1: Cast iron notary press.

Subject:

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Chinese -- California
Calligraphy, Chinese
Opium
Gambling -- California
California -- Emigration and immigration

Note:

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 anti-immigrant action, some of which was governmentally sanctioned.
Skar Chinese collection.
Purchase funded by Mead B. Kibbey and the California State Library Foundation.
Inventory available in library; item level control.
Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.

Physical Description:

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Manuscript box; 25 3/4 x 18 1/2 x 5 7/8 in.
Manuscript box; 15 1/2 x 12 x 3 1/4 in.

Language:

English

Identifier:

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.