Contains meeting minutes, personnel files, publications and newsletters, financial files, reports, and classroom materials. The content of materials cover community events catered to Asian and Pacific American people, civil rights issues, and the Unz Initiative which eliminated bilingual education in...
The Chace and Evans collection was originally created in 1967 by archeologists Paul G. Chace and Bill Evans, the collection was used by Patricia A. Etter in the 1970's to sythesize her own research regarding 19th- century Chinese opium-pipes and...
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...
This collection includes photographs, some featuring Los Angeles dignitaries, from the 1970s to 1980s, and news clippings. Also included is an interview conducted by the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California with Herbert and Josephine Turchi, who were early pupils...
The Chang Family Collection contains Chinese and English language correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, rare books, printed matter, and artifacts collected by multiple transnational generations of the Chang family, also known by the surname Chung or Zhang. Originating from a village in...
The China City Collection contains materials related to historical information on China City, a Chinese-themed tourist attraction between 1938 and 1949 located in Los Angeles, between Main, Spring, and Macy (now Caesar Chavez) streets. China City was a project proposed...
Contains convention proceedings, photographs, letters, essays, newspaper articles, newsletters and publications, mailers, flyers and advertisements, meeting agendas, handwritten notes, pamphlets, membership lists, event programs, and resolutions. The content of the materials covers events related to the CACA, particularly the 39th...
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...
The DeFalla Family collection consists of CHSSC founding documents, papers and artifacts reflecting Chinese American life, collected by the DeFalla family. It is arranged at a series and sub-series level. This collection is important to CHSSC because it contains items...
Contains programs, articles, handwritten notes, correspondence, planning documents, and photographs related to Wong's activities and any awards or honors that she received or awarded to others. Many of the materials particularly reference her work with the Friends of the Chinatown...
This collection contains research material that principle editor, Marjorie Lee, used to write Duty and Honor: A Tribute to Chinese American World War II Veterans of Southern California. Materials include photocopies of records on Chinese American World War II veterans,...
Ella Yee Quan was an educator in the Los Angeles Unified School District as well as an active community leader in numerous educational, civic, and cultural groups. In 1975, she helped found the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California (CHSSC),...
The Fritz Family collection consists of photographs, papers, and artifacts left behind by three generations of the Fritz Family in Los Angeles. It is arranged at a series level. This collection is importatnt to CHSSC because it gives a glimpse...
This collection contains 1 Hollinger box primarily containing photographs, most of which are 35mm slides and as well as approximately 40 prints and negatives, depicting the Old Chinatown and New Chinatown neighborhoods of Los Angeles. The photographs of New Chinatown...
Over a total of four days in 1983 and 1984, surface collections were made at the Donner Summit site by archaeologist Julia Costello and her husband Jeff Tuttle. This work camp, occupied between 1865 and 1869 by Chinese construction workers...
Lily Lum Chan was active in a number of organizations including Chinese Women's New Life Movement Club, Women's International Club, Republican Party, and YWCA. The collection contains copies of Chinese/English newspapers and magazines of undetermined value. Box FB003 contains important...
This collection contains 176 photographic prints of 76 unique images taken by L.T. Holman Gotchy, as well as postcards by Gotchy and other unknown photographers, featuring buildings, streets, and residents of Old Chinatown area in Los Angeles. The collection includes...
The collection documents Etter's research about 19th century Chinese opium pipes and smoking at two sites: Donner Summit, California and Virginia City, Nevada.
The Paul G. Chace Ephemera Collection is an assortment of memorabilia collected by anthroplogist and arheologist, Paul G. Chace. This collection is a part of a larger donation from Chace to CHSSC that, as a whole, were split into five...
The Rare Book Collection is a compiled collection primarily consisting of Chinese language texts from the twentieth century. The books include Chinese-published books as well as handmade booklets for personal study and use. The majority of the books are educational,...
Robert Nash was a PhD student at the University of California, Los Angeles conducting research on Chinese fisheries and related industries in the 19th century. Shortly after he earned his doctorate in 1973, Nash died and left his papers to...
Approximately 1,270 black and white photos of Peiping (Beijing), Soochow (Suzhou), Nanking (Nanjing), Shanghai, the Great Wall of China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Tsinanfu (Jinan), as well as of the ocean journey via San Francisco, Hawaii, and Yokohama, from 1933...
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...
In 2005 MTA unearthed a Potters Cemetery when widening the street during Goldline construction in East LA. This portion of the cemetery contained 118 graves. One fourth of the gravesites were determined to be Chinese. The Susan G. Dickson collection...
This collection contains materials owned by Dr. Tom Wing between the 1920s and 1980s, which were exhibited by the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California. It contains miscellaneous vintage tape recorders, acupuncture devices, a model car, a printed exhibit tour...
Contains correspondence, Chinese Times newspaper clippings, pamphlets, telegrams, yearbooks, receipts, and payroll records. Materials related to Immigration Act of 1924, China War Relief Association of America, and Chinese American Citizens Alliance....