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Chinatowns -- United States -- History

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Research Materials

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Scope and Contents This series contains the research materials Dr. Nash collected throughout his dissertation work and comprises the large majority/bulk of this collection. Nash performed extensive research into Chinese American communities and Chinatowns in California (from the 1880s to early 1900s). It appears that while his dissertation was on the Chinese Shrimp Fisheries in California, his extensive notes and research imply that he was going to conduct a more broad, wideranging study on the general...
Dates: 1860 - 1975

Restaurant Menus, 1991-2010, Undated

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Scope and Contents

Includes paper menus of Chinatown restaurants and Southern California Chinese restaurants.

Dates: 1991-2010; Undated

Southern California Oral History Collection

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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

Writings, 1952 - 1975

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Scope and Contents

This series comprises Robert A. Nash's writings on Chinese shrimp/abalone fisheries, fishing camps, and Chinese nautical vessels (sampans, junks, .etc) in California in the 1880s. There are about including his final doctoral dissertation, his publications in scholarly journals (e.g., Journal of the Nautical Research Guild, Chinese Historical Society of America, East West, etc.), and papers written in the course of his PhD studies.

Dates: 1952 - 1975