Hi Stacey

I have been working on a site in the Sierra Nevada that may work for your
session but then it might not....

The site was a mineral springs tourist hotel near Lake Tahoe that operated from
the 1880s to 1923. I came up with the guest book from the 1890s, looked up the
home towns for the guests and found out their professions and family status. I
am using this information to look at the formation process of the landscape and
how the hotel operator was able to bring these people from different class
backgrounds together. So far I do not know much about the employees except the
owners of the hotel. The personal artifacts recovered appear to be more guest
related.

If this sound interesting for your session I would be happy to be a part of it.
If so I could put an abstract together this weekend.

thanks for your consideration,

Rick Morris
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> Greetings starch's,
>
> This is the final call for papers for the 2006 SHA session “Archaeologies of
> Industrializing California." We have a great discussant lined up and look
> forward to receiving a few more abstract submissions. Please respond to
> this call off list by June 10th to [log in to unmask] Thanks!
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> Stacey Camp
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> “Archaeologies of Industrializing California” will look at the complex
> relationship between labor and capital in post-1870 California. Up until
> recently, the archaeology of work in California has been characterized by
> studies of mining frontiers and labor camps. This session’s papers will seek
> to broaden the notion of work as well as explore the implications of
> discussing different forms of labor in historical archaeology. One proposed
> method of expanding this discourse is to critically examine the
> relationships formed at these sites; what, for instance, can material
> culture and landscape analyses tell us about the intersections of class,
> gender, ethnicity, and race at these sites? A wide variety of locales of
> work in this region and during this time period will be considered,
> including (but not limited to) the tourism industry, utopian communities,
> and brothels.
>
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> Stacey Camp
> Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology
> Stanford University
> Building 110, Main Quad
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