Tsuto Kawakami immigration and incarceration ephemera archive, 1918 to circa 1960s, documenting the administrative record of a Japanese Issei immigrant across transpacific travel, alien registration, wartime removal and incarceration, and postwar civilian life. Born near Kumamoto, Japan, on March 26, 1902, Kawakami first entered the United States in 1919 and.....
U.S. Department of State. Report of the Secretary of State…relative to the coolie trade (1856) and Asiatic Coolie Trade, Message from the President of the United States (1861) document official correspondence, inspections, and policy concerns surrounding the transnational transport and exploitation of Chinese laborers in the mid-nineteenth century. These reports.....
Filipino American family photo archive depicting domestic life, kinship, religious observance, childhood, and tourism in Southern California from 1966 to 1970, during the first years of renewed Filipino immigration under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. The photographs record a settled family network participating in suburban, church, school, and.....
