PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Early Chinese Immigration to the Us
This collection uses primary sources to explore early Chinese immigration to the United States.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Progress, the Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912
Eighteen primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the industrial, racial, and technological progress of the late-nineteenth century.
Curated OER
Advertisement in the Pacific Railroad Gazetteer, 1870.
An article from the Utah Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 1, by George Kraus, recounts the decision to use Chinese laborers in building the Central Pacific Railroad. Many original documents.