Chinese Americans-History.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Eagle Salt Works payroll sheet
Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0854
Summary
Payroll sheet for August 1883, with Chinese laborers listed. Location of the business is not listed, but it was likely in Churchill County, Nevada.
Dates:
1883-08
Libby Lok, "Low Family Roots: 19th Century Chinese American Experience in Idaho City"
Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1477
Summary
This collection contains a typescript and CD copy of Libby Lok's history of her family in Idaho City, Idaho. Low Lok Kee, the author's great great great grandfather, was born in China in 1827 and immigrated to the United States in 1827. He was a Chinese merchant in Idaho City from the 1870s until 1907 when he returned to China. This thesis explores one Chinese family's experience in a western mining community. The text includes photographs and a Low family time line. Two color photographs of...
Dates:
[undetermined]
Mary Alfreda Elsensohn manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: MS 0409
Summary
"Pioneer days in Idaho County," volumes 1 and 2 (1947 and 1951), and "Idaho Chinese lore" (1970).
Dates:
1947 - 1970