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A Glass Act: Unearthing the Past at the Pon Yam House (2025)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Community Engaged Historical Archaeology in the Northwest", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Pon Yam House is a historic building in Idaho City, a former gold-rush town. The site is named after Chinese entrepreneur Pon Yam, who operated a successful mercantile on the premises for over two decades and provides a rich context for studying Chinese migrant and Chinese American history. This analysis focuses on...