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Rock Springs Chinatown Glass Bottle Finishes
Read more: Rock Springs Chinatown Glass Bottle FinishesHello, this is Luis Lopez and I am glad to be a part of the Summer 2025 Wyoming Chinatowns research team. After a week of working on learning and cataloging various artifacts, I wanted to focus on glass and share how I identified two particular glass fragments from the 1991 excavation of the Rock Springs…
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Opium Pipe Bowl Found in Rock Springs Chinatown
Read more: Opium Pipe Bowl Found in Rock Springs ChinatownHey y’all. This is Jorge, one of the four new summer research assistants for the Wyoming Chinatowns project. This is my first blog post here and I’ll be discussing an opium-related artifact. While doing some cataloging of artifacts that were excavated from Rock Springs, Wyoming, in 1991, I came across these sherds from opium smoking…
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“Ironstone China” Plates in Rock Springs Chinatown
Read more: “Ironstone China” Plates in Rock Springs ChinatownHello Everyone! This is Julia, a new member of the 2025 summer team for the Wyoming Chinatowns archaeology project. Today I wanted to tell you about the ironstone china found at Rock Springs that our team just reconstructed! Ironstone china originated in England in the early 18th century and, despite its name, does not contain…
