4592 x 3056 px | 38,9 x 25,9 cm | 15,3 x 10,2 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
20 août 2011
Lieu:
Chinese Section, Mount Moriah Cemetery, Deadwood, Black Hills, South Dakota, USA
Informations supplémentaires:
Thousands of Chinese immigrants, with visions of wealth and an easier life in America, were attracted to the California Goldrush of 1849, then the Black Hills Goldrush of 1876. Many engaged in service industries, operating restaurants, boarding-houses and laundry services. Th latter was a particularly lucrative industry., with low start up costs ($20) and low overheads (water from the creek and wood from the local forest being free). Whereas a miner earned an average $4-$7 a day, a laundry operator could earn an average $10 a day. The Chinese immigrant population in Deadwood peaked at 250. Many were buried in the town's Moriah Cemetery. Most Chinese burials have been removed for internment in home villages in China. The information sign says: 'Chinese immigrants came to Deadwood to make their fortune. After burial in Mount Moriah, with appropriate ceremonies, the remains were removed for burials in their home village in China. Not more than two bodies remain in the Chinese section.'
