Hearth
Jonathan C Chou
Notes
“Hearth” builds on an erasure of “Look, Tai Yow - Case Number: 19817/3-19 - Ship of Arrival: CHINA,” Immigration Arrival Investigation Case Files, 1884-1944, National Archives and Records Administration.
The following images are taken from Anan S. Raymond and Richard E. Fike, Rails East to Promontory: The Utah Stations, 1994: “Figure 34: Terrace switchyard looking west” (page 2), “Figure 1: The First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869” (page 3), “Figure 40: Detail of turntable foundation at Terrace” (page 4), “Figure 39: Turntable depression at Terrace” (page 5), “Figure 29: 1873 Cadastral Plat showing Terrace T. 9 N., R. 15 W.” (page 6).
Other images are from the following sources (in the public domain):
Page 4: Mrinmay Pathak, “Stars with night flight,” 2023, https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-sa/4.0/.
Page 5: Directory of Chinese Business Houses for San Francisco, Sacramento, Marysville, Portland, Stockton, San Jose, Virginia City, Nevada, 1882, “Sacramento’s Chinese of Yee Fow,” Yee Fow Museum.
Page 6: Density of Sacramento’s Chinese population in 1880, plotted by half-blocks, Brienes, West, and Schulz, Overview of Cultural Resources in the Central Business District, Sacramento, CA, 1981, as cited in “Sacramento’s Chinese of Yee Fow,” Yee Fow Museum.
Page 8: US Government, “Map from Bill S. 237 Illustrating Asiatic Zone of Barred Citizenship,” 1945.
