Black and White photograph: Angel Island Chinese immigrant detention center, dormitory room interior. San Francisco Bay, San Francisco, California, June 24, 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. 9 bunk beds are visible in the photograph, and a mannequin is visible on the top rear bunk.
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