Gold Mountain ballads collection, 1828-1924.

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Gold Mountain ballads collection, 1828-1924.

Contains texts of folk ballads, songs, and poetry, written by literary men in San Francisco's Chinatown, and relating to various aspects of life in the U.S., including exclusion and detention on Angel Island. With these: two programs from the Chinese Folk Dance Association 30th and 40th anniversaries in 1989 and 1999.

1 box (.2 linear ft.)

chi,

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6812959

California Digital Library

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Angel Island Immigration Station (Calif.)

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Angel Island Immigration Station, located in San Francisco Bay, operated from January 21, 1910 to November 5, 1940. The island was originally a fishing and hunting site for Coastal Miwok Indians before being colonoized by the Spanish and later the United States. Starting with the Civil War, the island served as a U.S. Army post. During the island's Immigration Station period, the island held hundreds of thousands of immigrants, the majority from China, Japan, India, Mexico and the Philippines. T...

Golden Gate Poetry Club.

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Chinese Folk Dance Association (San Francisco, Calif.)

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