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This series is processed at the box-level

Abstract 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 smoking materials. However, and archeological catalog was not done of the entire collection until years later by John Molenda. Molenda created an archeological catalog in the Summer of 2016 for boxes relating to Donner Summit, Donner Hotel, Virginia...

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Select years contain ceramics, figurines, a pendant, and a paper lantern.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection is arranged by series; primary site (Donner Summit, numerically) and by secondary sites (Other Northern California Sites, alphabetically). The material found from these various camp sites contain clothing, bottles of medicine/alcohol, ceramic jars/table wares, metal table wares, gaming tokes, ceramic food storage containers, faunal fragments, munitions, opium and tobacco paraphernalia. The collection contains different glazes and patterns on the ceramic materials such as...

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This series is processed at the box-level

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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.

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This series is processed at the box-level