Title Info Chinese Historical Society Digital Archive
Alternative Title Info Chinese Historical Society of Southern California Collection, ca.1880-1933
Name Aquifer submitter University of Southern California dhwong@usc.edu Deborah Holmes-Wong
administrator University of Southern California dhwong@usc.edu Deborah Holmes-Wong
Associated Project Aquifer American Social History Online http://www.diglib.org/aquifer/
Associated Project TEST TEST
Type Of Resource still image
Genre Photographs / slides / negatives
image
Origin Info Completely irregular
California 90089 United States University of Southern California [Institution of higher education]
Physical Description image/jpeg
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Abstract Includes 1,040 color images of artifacts excavated from the site of the original Los Angeles Chinatown; an additional 150 images document artifacts from the site of a Chinese laundry in Santa Barbara. These two outstanding Chinese Historical Society of Los Angeles artifact collections are among the largest and best-documented assemblage of cultural materials on Chinese settlement in the United States. Excavated from unmixed dated sites with developed historical context, the collections represent tremendous research potential. The first and larger collection consists of materials systematically excavated in October/November 1989 and February/March 1991, during the construction of the Metro-Rail Red Line by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Unearthed from a sealed and unmixed deposit underneath Union Station, the collection conveys information on the daily life and activities of people from all walks of life and all classes of the Chinese community from the1880's to 1933.Valuable data on food and subsistence, medicinal preparations and health practices, household technology, recreation, art, ritual patterns of space usage, and interaction with the Anglo community can be garnered from the objects, and changes over time may also be traced stratigraphically. The second collection consists of materials excavated in 1992 during the seismic upgrading by the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation of an old adobe structure that for about 25 years housed a Chinese laundry. These materials represent a valuable resource for reconstructing a narrower range of Chinese working class daily life in Santa Barbara from about the mid 1880s - 1905. The digitization of artifacts from these two sites was supported by a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
Subject North America (continent)
Late 20th Century (1968-2000)
Middle 20th Century (1934-1967)
Early 20th Century (1901-1933)
Late 19th Century (1868-1900)
Modern (1701-present)
Asian Americans
States and Regions
Arts--Photography
Social Studies--Anthropology
Social Studies--State history
Social Studies--United States history
Arts
Social Studies
American Culture
Identifier http://dlf.grainger.uiuc.edu/DLFCollectionsRegistry/Collection/459
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Record Info Records originated with the DLF Newsletter, 2000-2005, from which they were converted into a FileMaker database. The FileMaker DB was imported into a database system currently maintained by the Grainger Engineering Library Information Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Records for collections added after 2005 were created in this database as part of the Aquifer American Social History Online project. This database is currently being maintained as part of the Aquifer American Social History Online project. 2008-12-11 eng English Digital Library Federation (DLF) oai:dlfcollectionsregistry.grainger.uiuc.edu:459
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