Black and White photograph: Angel Island Chinese immigrant detention center, dormitory room interior. San Francisco Bay, San Francisco, California, 2003. From 1910 until 1945, Angel Island served as a detention center to facilitate the exclusion of the immigration of Chinese people under the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. Man of Chinese origin who was detained at Angel Island Internment Camp, in the dormitory room, Angel Island,San Francisco Bay, San Francisco,California, June 24, 2003.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w photographic prints photographs
Angel Island Immigration Station (Calif.) Concentration camp buildings Ex-concentration camp inmates Return visits to concentration camp sites Chinese Americans Chinese Concentration camps Dormitories
Time Period
2003-06-24
Place
-122.41973,37.87058 California San Francisco Marin USA buildings: Angel Island Immigration Station islands: Angel Island
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