Sam Stipic

Dr. Evan Farr

Portland 15776
30 October 2014

Primary Sources P1

Magazine/Newspaper:
Rev. A.W. Loomis, How Our Chinamen Are Employed Overland Monthly,
March 1869, 232-33 (in text >The road in process of construction from
Portland, Oregon, towards the south, is employing this kind of labor and
cannot obtain as much as it needs.)
Editorial, Morning Oregonian, May 17, 1875, p. 2. (in text> land owners in
Washington County pay Chinamen $20 an acre to clear land)
Censuses:
Ninth Census, III: 364-72
Tenth Census, I: 2-3
Tenth Census, II: 1366.
Tenth Census, 1358.
U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Manuscript Census of
1870: Oregon
Manuscript Census of 1880: Oregon.
Non-Fiction Writes:
The western Observer, 205 David Newsom, 1880.
Photograph:
Partridge photo, Part of Portlands Chinatown-Photo taken mid 1880s (OHS
Collections)
Paragraph:
By including these specific primary sources from the 1800s the author was
able to deliberately reflect his claims in a well-translated manner. Through
listing the results of each census to further explain the Chinese populations and
its effects on the city brought visually affective understanding to the reader.
Also, by including the newspaper references, he showed how the citizens of the
1870 s-1880 documented a rise in Chinese work forces and how new labor jobs
were constantly springing. I believe the author used these sources because they
are some of the more accurate references from the 1870s, in addition they
support his information relatively well.