PBA Galleries

(1836 American China Trade merchant’s legal manuscript)

(Cookery - China)

(1870 First appearance of Bret Harte’s “Heathen Chinee”, Overland)

(1871 Chinese Coolies replace Negro ex-slaves on New Orleans plantation)

(Cuba - 1872 Death of a Chinese Coolie)

(1879 Landmark Court decision invalidating San Francisco anti-Chinese “Queue Ordinance”)

(1880s Anti-Chinese Trade Cards)

(1882 English Reader for California Chinese immigrants)

(1893-1924 1st US study of Chinese Games to the Ma-Jong craze of 1920s)

(Japan)

(1898 First Chinatown Fiction by a Chinese-American author)

(Drugs and Narcotics - 1898-1901, Ginseng)

(Japan)

(1904 Chinese Cannery Workers in Astoria, Oregon)

(1908 Riots against Chinese and Japanese in Vancouver, Canada)

(1909 Rare Fantasy Novel About Japanese Conquest Of Hawaii And California, First Ed., Inscribed)

(1912 Three pictorial postcards of Chinese restaurants in Chicago)

(Japan)

(Japanese-American, 1920 photograph)

(1920 Chinese Herbal Science, Los Angeles, possibly the only surviving copy)

(1920 Music: Filipino pianist’s Jazzy, Jazzy Sound in All Chinatown)

(1920s Framed embroidery: US friendship with Chinese Republic)

(1923-51 Archive of famed San Francisco Chinatown Photographers)

(China)

(1924 US Senate hearings on banning Japanese Immigration)

(China)

(1930 California Indian-American politician defends Gandhi)

(Japanese-American Game)

(1925-33 Four booklets of Chinese recipes)

(1938 China Nite in Los Angeles for civilian relief in China)

(1938 Inscribed Photos, First Chinese-American Movie Star and first San Francisco Chinatown film actor)

(1940 three Chinese restaurant menus, Boston, San Francisco and Syracuse)

(1941 Photograph, Nisei soldiers at Army camp in Arkansas before Pearl Harbor)

(1943 Opposing Japanese-American Internment)

(1943 Scarce Chinese Hawaiian Recipe booklet - and a famous TV villain)

(1944 Born Free and Equal, 1st Edition of Ansel Adams’ photographic classic of the Manzanar internment camp)

(Chinese-Americans, World War II) 1944-45 World War II letters of a Chinese-American Army Air Force technician)

(1945 Japanese-Americans challenge wartime Internment in US Supreme Court)

(1945 Last High School Graduation, Tule Lake Internment Camp, California; and 1941 Japanese-American high school students in Los Angeles before Pearl Harbor)

(1945 S.I. Hayakawa on Chicago Jazz History, Inscribed)

(1946 Wartime Exile, Exclusion Of The Japanese Americans From The West Coast)

(1950-55 Japanese-American Life-style Magazine, 18 issues)

(1954 Utah Japanese-American Telephone Directory)

(Music)