Scope and Contents

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

Scope and Contents

Contains reference lists and bibliographies which Robert Nash collected through the course of his research on a wide variety of topics, including: Chinese populations in the U.S. (mostly California, and in other states such as Hawai'i, Alaska, and Oregon), Chinese maritime/fishing activities, and the various fishing camps that existed surrounding these industries, in the 1870s and 1880s.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

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 From the Sub-Series:

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.

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This series contains various correspondences which Dr. Nash wrote (and received) for research purposes throughout the writing of his dissertation. These were usually in the form of letters written to organizations or other historical societies requesting information about, for example, Chinese shrimp fisheries in a certain locality, area, city, or county in California. It also includes correspondence regarding Chinese junks and marine vessels, Chinatowns, and Chinese fishing camps.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Contains reference lists and bibliographies which Robert Nash collected through the course of his research on a wide variety of topics, including: Chinese populations in the U.S. (mostly California, and in other states such as Hawai'i, Alaska, and Oregon), Chinese maritime/fishing activities, and the various fishing camps that existed surrounding these industries, in the 1870s and 1880s.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Contains reference lists and bibliographies which Robert Nash collected through the course of his research on a wide variety of topics, including: Chinese populations in the U.S. (mostly California, and in other states such as Hawai'i, Alaska, and Oregon), Chinese maritime/fishing activities, and the various fishing camps that existed surrounding these industries, in the 1870s and 1880s.

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...

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...

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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).