Category: Evanston Chinatown

Hi all, it’s Evan again. Recently we found an unusual curved blue glass shard in our Evanston Chinatown collection that took some crowdsourcing and additional research to finally identify as a railroad semaphore lens! Mixed in with shards belonging to a variety of different bottle types, it was immediately apparent that this was no ordinary…

Hey everyone! This is George, one of Dr. Ng’s assistants here in the lab. It’s a privilege to be able to work on this project. I am very interested in transnational cultural identities and the relationship between power and the movement of people. A great part of this research has been all the fascinating artifacts…