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"Letter from Chinese Inspector Thomas Thomas in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to the Commissioner-General of Immigration Transmitting Jim Long's Request That His Certificate of Residence be Returned"

"In 1900 the Office of the Superintendent of Immigration, which had been established in the Department of the Treasury in 1891, became the chief…

Coast Guardsmen at the Ellis Island Training Station.

U.S. inspectors examining eyes of immigrants, Ellis Island

English: U.S. inspectors examining eyes of immigrants, Ellis Island, New York Harbor

Santa Anita (Calif.) Assembly Center -- youngsters carry flags in Americanization program

"Photograph shows Japanese American young children carrying American flags in program to promote their assimilation into American society during…

Chinese railroad workers, ca. 1880

Track maintenance workers, called "gandy dancers" in railroad slang, patrol the Oregon Pacific Railroad in a hand

The Coming Man: Allee sammee Melican Man Monopoleeee

This image is a political cartoon titled "The Coming Man," published in The Wasp magazine on May 20, 1881. It reflects the anti-Chinese sentiment…

Immigration and Nationality Act :
with amendments and notes on related laws and summaries of pertinent judicial decisions : committee print for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, United States.

Immigration and Nationality Act with Amendments and notes on related laws. Included: summaries of pertinent judicial decisions.

Medha K. Karve oral history interview

Medha Karve was born in Mumbai, India in 1957 to parents of first-generation Indian-Americans. When she was 9 years old, her father immigrated to the…

San Francisco. 1910. [Men sitting on wooden sidewalk, one Indian or South Asian man in turban.]

Men sitting on wooden sidewalk, one Indian or South Asian man in turban

Chinese, gold mining in California

Chinese miners work along streams with cradles, water buckets, and picks.