Five Stanford undergraduates are working on the Chinese Railroad Workers Project this summer from late June through mid-August. In addition to implementing a new software platform and building our annotated bibliography, these students have been researching Southern Pacific Railroad records in Special Collections at Stanford, indexing our Oral Histories, and analyzing the Central Pacific Railroad payroll records, among other projects. On July 23, 2014, the group toured the Leland Stanford Mansion in downtown Sacramento, and then spent the afternoon exploring the California State Railroad Museum in Old Sacramento. In addition to being a fun day away from campus, the field trip to Sacramento was an opportunity for these students to more fully connect their research experience with the actual locations, buildings and streets where the Central Pacific Railroad began.
Summer Research Assistants took a day-long field trip to Sacramento, California with Project researcher Teri Hessel. Pictured (from left-to-right) are Teri Hessel, Debra Pacio, Maria Greer, Niuniu Teo, Hye Jeong Yoon, and Brianna Brown.