Abstract The Catholic Chinese Academy collection comprises three scrapbooks containing photographs, correspondence, administrative materials, newspaper clippings, notes, and ephemera from 1939 to 1947. Materials pertain to administration, classes, and special events at the Catholic Chinese Academy of St. Bridget’s Catholic Chinese Center in Chinatown, Los Angeles, California. The Catholic Chinese Academy was also referred to as the Catholic Chinese School. Photographer Pat O’Malley and Sister Mary...

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Materials related to Chinese Presbyterian Church and the church after various mergers, including 3 anniversary programs dated 1956, and a 1986 True Light Presbyterian Church Chinese Language School 10th Anniversary issue. Also includes 11 photographs related to Alhambra True Light Presbyterian Church (ATLPC) though the provenance is unconfirmed.

Content Description Collection includes materials relating to the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, Chinese Americans, Los Angeles Chinatown, local organizations, and Asian Americans from the 20th century, primarily in the 1970s-1990s, collected by founder and long-time leader of CHSSC Reverend Paul Louie. This includes organizational and event materials, artifacts, newspaper articles, dissertations, and theses on Chinese Americans written between 1940-80s. This collection also contains...

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...