Abstract The Cambria Collection is a research project conducted by Roberta S. Greenwood, Dana N. Slawson, and Linda Bentz on the Chinese population in Cambria, San Luis Obispo County, California. Most of the research focuses on the Chinese Center, namely the Red House, where the Chinese residents of Cambria would gather for social events. An adjoined room to the Red House is also believed to have functioned as a Chinese temple. The collection is arranged at the Box-Level and Folder-Level. Materials...

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The Cambria Collection is arranged at the Series Level. The collection primarily consists of paper documents, including: research papers and notes, letters and emails of correspondence, census data, newspaper articles, deed and tax information pertaining to the Red House, and oral history transcripts. Also included are photographs and maps in both color and black and white of the Red House and the city of Cambria.

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...