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...

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...