Adrian,

Two reports readily come to hand that might be useful:

A Sense of Time and Place: SDI-13,031H Archaeological Mitigation Report,
Main Street Redevelopment Project, El Cajon, CA. 1994. Author, Stephen R.
Van Wormer, for William Manley Consulting, San Diego.  This report details
archaeological investigation at the Corona del Cajon Hotel, City of El
Cajon, late 19th - early 20th century period.

Another is: Archaeological Investigations of Tucson Block 94: The Boarding
House Residents of the Hotel Catalina Site. Technical Report 93-5, Center
for Desert Archaeology. 1993. Author J. Homer Thiel.  The artifacts analyzed
in this report were late 19th to early 20th century.

Don't know that either of these reports would qualify as "imaginative" but
both contain a few gems that might point in that direction. As the authors
conclude, boarding house/hotel refuse, being mixed by nature, presents an
obvious challenge to those wishing to pursue the typical themes of
ethnicity, gender and economic status. Their research designs attempt to
tackle some aspects of this.

Anne Stoll
Statistical Research, Inc.
Redlands, CA 92373

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Subject: Boardinghouse sites?


HISTARCHers,

A student of mine is writing a thesis on the archaeology of a late-19th
century residential boardinghouse-hotel and is looking for references to
reports on similar sites.

I'm encouraging her to be less concerned with finding comparative
assemblages, than in tracking down imaginative interpretive/theoretical
approaches. Seems like there's little new under the sun since Beaudry et
al. dug up the Boott.

Thanks.

Adrian Praetzellis
Sonoma State University