Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 USC Libraries Special Collections University of Southern California specol@usc.edu
Description
2 images. Citizenship Bill in Congress, 21 May 1954. James Carey Farris - 19 years (drawing boy made of self before suicide)Cesar Garcia - 54 years Pilar Garcia - 45 years (wife) Ernest Garcia - 7 years (son). Supplementary material reads: "Chernus -- harbor captions for Sunday story to come. Two negs show Cesar Garcia, 54, his wife, Pilar, 45, and their son, Ernest, 7, looking over telegram from Congressman Cecil King who introduces a bill in congress asking that Mrs. Garcia be made a citizen. Garcia, a navy vet and hero of Corregidor and prisoner of Japs, arrived here with his wife in 1946. Wife thought she was citizen but immigration authorities told her recently she would have to leave country and go back to Philippines. They live at 506 West East Street, Wilmington.".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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