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Rare Book Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2023-M-6-RBC
Abstract
The Rare Book Collection is a compiled collection primarily consisting of Chinese language texts from the twentieth century. The books include Chinese-published books as well as handmade booklets for personal study and use. The majority of the books are educational, covering Chinese language, philosophy, and medicine. The rest of the books include personal and business records, immmigration coaching books, and accounts relations between China and the United States.
Dates:
1907-1984, undated
Robert A. Nash Collection
Collection
Identifier: 1976-M-1-Nash
Abstract
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 he earned his doctorate in 1973, Nash died and left his papers to the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California. His incredible organization, and fastidious research make this a rich collection on Chinese fisheries, canneries, abalone, shrimp, squids, junks, and sampans. This collection includes Nash's notes,...
Dates:
1860 - 1975
Russell A. Cully Collection
Collection
Identifier: 1990-M-1-Cully
Content Description
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 to 1934. Most prints are approximately 3.25 by 4.75 inches. 496 of the prints are thumbnail sized, approximately 1.25 by 1.5 inches, which mostly correspond to the larger prints and have descriptions written on verso.Most of...
Dates:
1933 - 1937; Majority of material found within 1933 - 1934
Southern California Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: 1979-M-1-SCOH
Abstract
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 book Linking Our Lives: Chinese American Women in Los Angeles were made. This collection contains approximately 1700 pages of transcripts and summaries, in English with small amounts...
Dates:
1916 - 2024; Majority of material found within 1978 - 1984
Susan G. Dickson Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2022-M-2-Dickson
Abstract
In 2005, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) unearthed a Potters Cemetery when widening the street during construction of the Gold light rail line in East Los Angeles. This portion of the cemetery contained 118 graves. One fourth of the gravesites were determined to be Chinese. This collection contains MTA community meeting materials, newspaper articles, photographs, video, and emails which reveal the discussion within the Chinese community about the...
Dates:
1995 - 2010; Majority of material found within 2005-2007
Tom Wing Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2024-M-10-Wing
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials owned by Dr. Tom Wing between the 1920s and 1980s, which were exhibited by the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California. It contains miscellaneous vintage tape recorders, acupuncture devices, a model car, a printed exhibit tour guide, posters on foam board, and cosmetology instruments. The collection may have previously been known as the Disaster Red Cross Radio Collection.
Dates:
1920 - 1950
Walter Lum Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2009-P-2-Lum
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence, Chinese Times newspaper clippings, pamphlets, telegrams, yearbooks, receipts, and payroll records. Materials related to Immigration Act of 1924, China War Relief Association of America, and Chinese American Citizens Alliance.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1910 - 1930
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