Welcome to the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California's digital repository.
 
Browse our digital collections below or head to our ArchivesSpace site to explore our physical collections.

 

Cambria Collection

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.

Chinese Catholic Academy Collection

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.

Duty and Honor Collection

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.

Fritz Family House Collection

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.

L.T. Holman Gotchy Collection

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

Lem Kay Collection

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

Marie Louie Collection

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

Southern California Chinese American Oral History Project

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.

Chinese Historical Society of Southern California collection at University of Southern California (external link)

Photographs of artifacts excavated from Old Los Angeles Chinatown by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) during the construction of the Metro Red Line and from the High Lung Laundry in Santa Barbara.

Chinese Historical Society at California Revealed (external link)

Selections from our phonograph record collection.