Note written by Japanese POW, released and returning to Japan, November 7, 1945, Angel Island, Detention Center, San Francisco Bay, San Francisco, California, 2003
Black and white photograph: Note written by Japanese POW, released and returning to Japan, November 7, 1945, Angel Island, Detention Center, San Francisco Bay, San Francisco, California, June 24, 2003. The note is written of a piece of paper tacked to the dormitory wall. 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.
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