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California Ethnic and Multicultura Archives, CEMA    (University of California, Santa Barbara)

• Part of the Special Collections at UCSB, CEMA contains archival materians related to different racial/ethnic groups in California to include, Asian Pacific Americans, Native Americans, African Americans, and Chica@/Latin@ collections.

American Memory Collection, Library of Congress

• The Chinese in California, 1850 - 1925

National Archives and Records Administration

NARA contains documents and records created by the United States Federal government on various topics including family records, US military records, immigration and many more. Some significant collections on Asian and Pacific Americans are noted below.

• Chinese Immigration and the Chinese in the United States

• The Journey of the Philippine Archives Collection

Library of Congress, American Memory Collection

The oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of congress. The LOC is the largest library in the world with millions of books, recordings, maps, photographs, and manuscripts in its collections.

• The Chinese in California, 1850 - 1925

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Library of Congress Finding Aids

Camp Harmony Puyallup Assembly Center (University of Washington)

Chinese American Museum (Los Angelese, California)

Chinese Historical Society of America

Filipino American National Historical Society

Japanese American National Museum

Korean American Historical Society

Museum of Chinese in America

National Japanese American Historical Society

Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project

Wing Luke Asian Museum