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Description
Caption found with the image reads, "'Marine Lynx' resting peacefully at anchor in San Francisco Bay awaiting arrival of more than 200 Indonesian seamen, for deportation to Dutch East Indies. Most of them had been in custody at New York awaiting the sailing of some vessel from the West Coast. They had arrived in Atlantic Ports as seamen aboard British and Dutch vessels but would noton [sic] Dutch or British vessels. Having refused to said out [sic] they were in this country illegally and merely awaiting the cessation of hostilities so that arrangements could be made for their deportation." This collection of nine images documents the detention of a group of Indonesian seamen in 1947 as they await the outcome of deportation proceedings in the federal courts. The images show these roughly 200 men at an immigration detention center in downtown San Francisco, at the Southern Pacific depot in San Francisco, and on ship called the "Marine Lynx" in the San Francisco Bay.
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image
Format
Photographs black and white, 7.5 x 10 inches image/jpeg
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