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This series comprises physical artifacts and shards collected during the course of Robert Nash's research on Chinese fishing industry in California, and are derived from the original sites of 1880s Chinese shrimp camps, which were located in the San Pablo Bay area near San Francisco

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Contains field notes, statistical surveys, population indexes, diagrams, and more pertaining to the Chinese in California/U.S. and Chinese fishing/marine transportation vessels dating from about 1860 to 1960. Many are made on random pieces of notepaper, scratch paper, and stenographic/graphical notebooks with detailed drawings and measurements. Also includes some maps and topographical surveys that Nash collected during his research.

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...

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Contains preliminary drafts, outlines, and essays written throughout the course of Robert Nash's doctoral studies, as well as a draft of Dr. Nash's dissertation, "The Chinese Shrimp Fisheries in California" (1973).

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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.