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Duty and Honor Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2019-M-1-DH
Abstract
This collection contains research material that principal 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, audio recorded interviews with Chinese American veterans, interview transcriptions, interview notes with Chinese American veterans, photo slides of personal photographs owned by Chinese American veterans, Polaroid photographs...
Dates:
1942 - 1946; 1994 - 2000; 2003; Majority of material found within 1995 - 1998
Ella Yee Quan Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2022-M-1-Quan
Abstract
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), where she would later serve as president. This collection includes Quan's personal records, including class photographs from her time teaching at Castelar Elementary School; artifacts belonging to her herbalist grandfather, Yee Wah Yee;...
Dates:
1903-2014
Fritz Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: 1996-M-1-Fritz
Abstract
The Fritz Family collection consists of photographs, papers, and artifacts created by three generations of the Fritz Family in Los Angeles. It is arranged at a series level. This collection provides insight into the life of Angelenos who lived in the area of Chinatwon before it was known as such, revealing hidden connections between French American and Chinese American communities in Los Angeles. French immigration was at a high from the 1850s to 1860s, making the French the fastest-growing...
Dates:
1930-1988, undated
George Kiriyama Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2008-R-1-Kiriyama
Content Description
This collection contains 1 Hollinger box primarily containing photographs, most of which are 35mm slides and as well as approximately 40 prints and negatives, depicting the Old Chinatown and New Chinatown neighborhoods of Los Angeles. The photographs of New Chinatown primarily consist of street scenes, views of buildings in the neighborhood, the Miss Los Angeles Chinatown pageant, and Chinese New Year Parades. Many of the slides are arranged as historical slideshows showing the histories of...
Dates:
1972 - 1981; 2024; undated
Julia Costello Collection: Donner Summit Chinese Railroad Camp
Collection
Identifier: 2020-M-1-Costello
Abstract
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 on the transcontinental railroad, was located using historic accounts, maps, and surface survey. In general, only Chinese artifacts were collected while Euro/American ceramics, glass, and metal were left in place.
Dates:
1865-1869
Lily Lum Chan Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2024-P-6-Chan
Scope and Contents
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 community information including the Kong Chow Association Rules, Hop Sing Tong Rules, History CCBA booklet, and the resume of Tennyson Chang.
Dates:
1954 - 1994
L.T. Holman Gotchy Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2013-R-1-Gotchy
Content Description
This collection contains 176 photographic prints of 76 unique images taken by L.T. Holman Gotchy, as well as postcards by Gotchy and other unknown photographers, featuring buildings, streets, and residents of Old Chinatown area in Los Angeles. The collection includes photographs taken by Gotchy between 1938 and 1959 and reproduction photographs taken between 1876 and the 1930s by unknown photographers. The photographs capture the exteriors and signage of local businesses such as Jin Hing...
Dates:
1938 - 2013; Majority of material found within 1938 - 1951
Patricia A. Etter Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2009-M-1-Etter
Abstract
The collection documents Etter's research about 19th century Chinese opium pipes and smoking at two sites: Donner Summit, California and Virginia City, Nevada.
Dates:
1973 - 1994; Majority of material found within 1976 - 1979
Paul Chace Ephemera Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2021-M-1-Chace
Scope and Contents
The Paul Chace Collection is arranged at the Series-Level and Subseries-Level. The collection consists of ceramics, photographs, VHS tapes and newspapers about the Bok Kai festival, and various papers collected or written by Paul Chace. Also included are film negatives and artifacts from an archeological excavation that took place in Riverside, California.
Dates:
1662-2016
Phonograph Record Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2023-M-7-Phono
Scope and Contents
Approximately 250 phonographic records, the majority of which are recordings of Cantonese (Yueju) operas on 10-inch shellac discs. The recordings were produced in the first half of the 20th century in China, England, Germany and the United States, on labels such as Beka, Columbia, Golden Star, Nam Sing and Victor. Another major group of recordings are of Chinese pop music and film soundtracks on 12-inch vinyl LPs from the 1950s to the 1980s and released in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and...
Dates:
1902 - 1986
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