Name/Title
China StoreEntry/Object ID
CHSA-04494Scope and Content
Color. Photo. California; Coloma; Store: View of a stone brick building with a shingled roof with yellow stained windows, there is a wood sign with with red Chinese characters and a red sign near the door.
Back: Info. Text: "B-916" "China Store Coloma, California The Chinese were as much of the early west as was the miner or cowboy. They operated eating places, stores, laundries, and worked in the mines as laborers. The diet of the early miner was in the most part beans, salt pork, flapjacks, and a doughy bread. Real bread sold for as much as $1.00 per slice in hotels, $1.00 extra for butter. Potatoes $1.00 each and coffee was brewed from beans crushed in a sack between stones. Only after 1855, when women came to live with their husbands did gardens get planted. M.P." "Photo-color by Merle Porter." "Published by Royal Pictures, Colton, California."