Browse Items (2889 total)

An image of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

A group of Chinese miners in California.

First page of the US Chinese Exclusion Act

Contrived view of Chinatown showing streets crowded with men and lined with businesses; at left and right streams of immigrants make their way from Pacific Mail Steamship Company and Canadian Pacific Steamship Company. Ships stretch into distance…

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

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

Chinua Achebe, c. 1960, with two editions of his first novel, Things Fall Apart.

This is an image of Choi Kyung Sik's passport photo in 1925.