1880–1885Newspaper Archive

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Map References ​

Data Sources ​

Library of Congress. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Washington, DC. https://www.loc.gov/collections/chronicling-america/about-this-collection/.

Newberry Library. Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. Chicago: Newberry Library, 2012. https://publications.newberry.org/ahcb/.

Basemaps ​

OpenStreetMap contributors. Open Database License. https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright.

Rand McNally and Company. "Rand McNally & Co's New Railroad and County Map of the United States and Dominion of Canada." Map. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1882. Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:1257b834v.

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Historical Sources for Event Annotations ​

  • Angell Treaty (1880): U.S. Department of State. Treaty Regulating Immigration from China, November 17, 1880.
  • Chinese Educational Mission Recall (1881): LaFargue, Thomas E. China's First Hundred: Educational Mission Students in the United States, 1872–1881. Pullman: Washington State College Press, 1942.
  • Chinese Exclusion Act (1882): 47th Congress. An Act to Execute Certain Treaty Stipulations Relating to Chinese, May 6, 1882. 22 Stat. 58.
  • Tape v. Hurley (1884–85): Tape v. Hurley, 66 Cal. 473 (1885).
  • Low, Victor. The Unimpressible Race. San Francisco: East/West Publishing, 1982.
  • Sino-French War: Battle of Fuzhou (1884): Eastman, Lloyd E. Throne and Mandarins. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967.
  • Rock Springs Massacre (1885): U.S. Senate. Executive Document No. 102, 49th Congress, 1st Session, 1886.
  • Tacoma Expulsion (1885) & Seattle Expulsion Attempt (1886): Pfaelzer, Jean. Driven Out: The Forgotten War against Chinese Americans. New York: Random House, 2007.