Interview: Beverly Barron
Title: The Chinese in Tuolumne County [sound recording] : a tape recorded speech. / Beverly Barron.
Interviewee: Barron, Beverly
Recording Location: Sonora, CA
Date Recorded: 1974
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Direct Link: https://apps.gocolumbia.edu/oralhistory/listen?18
Call Number: F868 .T915 B277
Author(s): Tuolumne County Historical Society.
Year Recorded: 1974
Physical Description: 1 online resource (2 audio files (39 min., 12 sec.).
Series Title: (Columbia Colllege oral history series)
General Notes: Contents outline (typescript, photoprint) accompanies recording. A speech given to the Tuolumne County Historical Society.; A speech given to the Tuolumne County Historical Society.
Contents: Tape 1, Side A: Louise Nau, President, Tuolumne County Historical Society, presiding ; Mary Etta Segerstrom, program chairperson ; Barron's interest in the Chinese ; Arrival of the first Chinese in Calif., 1948 ; Increased immigration and friction ; Basic cultural differences ; Popular trades ; Chinese women ; Contract coolies ; Arrival in the Mother Lode ; Camp Salvador ; Chinese Camp (Camp Washington) ; Rock walls ; Joaquin Murietta and "Three fingered" Jack Garcia ; Efforts to restrict immigration ; Tong war, Chinese Camp, 1856 ; Jacksonville mines -- Tape 1, Side B: Chinese Camp vignettes ; Sonora's China Town ; Chinese funeral ; Columbia Water Company, 1854 ; "Happy" Wong ; Chinese standing in California.
Local Notes: None
Held By: COLUMBIA
Subject Term: Chinese--California--Tuolumne County.
Geographic Term: Tuolumne County (Calif.)--History--Personal narratives.
