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Chinatowns -- United States -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Restaurant Menus, 1991-2010, Undated

 Series
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1991-2010; Undated

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

Writings, 1952 - 1975

 Series
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