CHSSC Digital Media Library

The Cambria Collection consists of materials gathered by Roberta S. Greenwood, Dana N. Slawson, and Linda Bentz about the Chinese American population in Cambria, San Luis Obispo County, California.

Photographs, documents, and interviews regarding Castelar Elementary School, one of the oldest schools in Los Angeles and the only public school in Los Angeles Chinatown.

This collection comprises three scrapbooks from the Catholic Chinese Academy of St. Bridget’s Catholic Chinese Center in Los Angeles Chinatown containing photographs, correspondence, administrative materials, newspaper clippings, notes, and ephemera from 1939 to 1947.

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Photographs and oral histories of Chinese American World War II veterans from Southern California compiled for the 1994 book, Duty and Honor: A Tribute to Chinese Americans World War II Veterans of Southern California, edited by CHSSC member and UCLA Asian American Studies librarian Marjorie Lee.

The Fritz Family collection consists of photographs, papers, and artifacts left behind by three generations of the Fritz Family, who lived in the French Quarter of Los Angeles before it became New Chinatown.

Photographs of the Old Los Angeles Chinatown area around Ferguson Alley taken between 1938 to 1951.

Personal artifacts and letters presented in conjunction with Los Angeles County Arboretum

Photographs of the Yee family, one of the first Chinese families in Ventura's Chinatown.

This collection, created in collaboration with UCLA Asian American Studies Center, contains 165 oral histories conducted between 1975 and 1983 with accompanying images and transcripts.