Drawn from the collections of the University of California Berkeley and the California Historical Society, this addition to American Memory presents about 8000 digitized items that document the Chinese in California from 1850 to 1925. Like other American Memory collections, both searching and browsing options are available. One nice feature is the Topical Overview section, where users can read short essays on a variety of themes, from Chinese and Westward Expansion to Sentiment Concerning the Chinese: Images from Periodicals. All topical essays have galleries of associated pictures, such as approximately 300 architectural photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown or 565 pictures of Chinese American communities outside of San Francisco. Another highlight of the collection is over 100 photographs by Arnold Genthe, many of them portraits of Chinatown's children.