Angel Island Oral History Project, 1975-1990.

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Angel Island Oral History Project, 1975-1990.

Contains 62 typed transcripts or summaries of interviews with Chinese immigrants detained at Angel Island Immigration Station between 1910 and 1940, including 12 female and 40 male detainees, along with 3 inspectors, 2 interpreters, and a kitchen helper, minister's son, YMCA director, son of a matron's assistant, and the wife of maintenance man. Also includes a brief summary and proposal of the project, with a list of interviewees and interview questions.

1 box (.4 linear ft.)

chi,

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 7593090

UC Berkeley Libraries

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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...

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Yung, Judy

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