Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains correspondence, research materials, photographs, bibliographies, presentations, scrapbooks, published materials, and manuscripts dealing with the collection and study of opium pipes and opium smoking material. The two manuscripts included were used for William S. Evans’ classes who was the Professor of Archaeology at Santa Monica College from 1976-1878. Material were collected at two sites: Donner Summit, California; and Virginia City, Nevada. Also included is a copy...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains correspondence, research materials, photographs, bibliographies, presentations, scrapbooks, published materials, and manuscripts dealing with the collection and study of opium pipes and opium smoking material. The two manuscripts included were used for William S. Evans’ classes who was the Professor of Archaeology at Santa Monica College from 1976-1878. Material were collected at two sites: Donner Summit, California; and Virginia City, Nevada. Also included is a copy...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains correspondence, research materials, photographs, bibliographies, presentations, scrapbooks, published materials, and manuscripts dealing with the collection and study of opium pipes and opium smoking material. The two manuscripts included were used for William S. Evans’ classes who was the Professor of Archaeology at Santa Monica College from 1976-1878. Material were collected at two sites: Donner Summit, California; and Virginia City, Nevada. Also included is a copy...

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Drawings of opium pipe bowl parts by Patricia Etter. Includes black and white negative for reproduction

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228 black and white negatives of opium bowl shards and tin opium bowl containers

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Chinese artifact descriptions of opium tin lids and other metal pieces collected from Donner Summit including 25 photographs matching numbered artifacts held by Chinese Historical Society of Southern California

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83 Kodachrome slides - color and black and white - of various opium artifacts, pipe shards, opium smoker, an opium den, and more, from Virginia City and Donner Summit

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Descriptions and 14 photographs of Chinese artifacts from Virginia City, Nevada

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Descriptions and 20 photographs and various notes and from Donner Summit, California

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Etter photo of opium paraphernalia from Stockton Police Department