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Asian Pacific American Primary Source Set

 

Chinese Immigration  

Chinese

Pictures:

Central Pacific Railroad

Chinese immigrants coming to San Francisco, California

The Chinese in California 1850-1925

Completion of the Pacific Railroad (1869)

A Chinese reception in San Francisco

Chinese emigration to America (1876)

Chinese Life in San Francisco (1879)

Sluicing

Idaho vegetable peddler

China Town (1900)

Studio portrait 1

Studio portrait 2

Cradle [Chinese man mining along river]

Chinese Children (1901)

Chinese Dragon. La Fiesta Parade (1902)

Family in Idaho City, Idaho (1902)

Miss Hartwell and bible women in the Foochow Mission (1902)

Boise, Idaho Chinese parading

Chinese Minister to the United States (1903)

Harry Houdini and Chinese magician Ching Ling Foo (1912)

Mothers and Children (1916)

Chinese dragon costume (1928)

Chinese-Americans get officer rank

Girl Playing Hopscotch

Chinatown YMCA

San Francisco Building

 

Written Work:

The Chinaman As He Is

Among the Chinese

The Chicago Chinese Endeavor from The American missionary(1900)

Chinese Gifts from The American missionary(1900)

Disturbance in China from The American missionary (1900)

Letter from Jeng Ze-qin to Jeng Ze-jian (1900)

In Re. Hom Shung, son of a merchant (1915)

 

Motion Pictures:

Parade of Chinese (1898)

Scene in Chinatown (1900)

 

Japenese

Pictures:

U.S.S. Brooklyn, Japanese stewards

Gen. Kuroki and Gen. Ninezawa visiting America (1907)

Man with a girl and boy (1919)

Salinas, California evacuation orders

Santa Anita reception center, Los Angeles, California evacuation (1942)

Los Angeles, California Evacuation (1942)

Farmhouse of Japanese-Americans(1942)

Los Angeles, California. Japanese-American evacuation from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order. Waiting with their luggage at the old Santa Fe station for a train to take them to Owens Valley

Los Angeles, California. Japanese-American evacuation from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order. Waiting for a train which will take them to Owens Valley

Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar

Tule Lake Relocation Center- Farming

Tule Lake Relocation Center- Camp Overview

Tule Lake Relocation Center- Barber Shop

Nyssa, Oregon Farm Security Administration camp - dancing (1942)

Nyssa, Oregon Farm Security Administration Camp- Cutting Hair (1942)

Twin Falls, Idaho Farm Security Administration - cooking (1942)

Shelley, Idaho Farm Security Administration - kids playing (1942)

Rupert, Idaho Farm Security Administration Barracks (1942)

Rupert, Idaho Farm Security Administration apartment (1942)

Shower connections for Japanese-Americans

Washing machine for Japanese-Americans

Interior of row shelter

Japanese-American volunteers (1943)

Japanese enlistment (1943)

U.S. Army Combat Regiment (1943)

Japanese flower arranging (1977)

Hawaii

Pictures:

Islands of Woahoo in the Pacific as visited by C.E. Bensell in 1821

Honolulu Harbor (1910)

Crater of Kilauea, Hawaii (1902)

Volcano House (1902)

Hawaiian Hotel (1902)

A Hawaiian grass house (1902)

Honolulu, Hawaii (1910)

Honolulu ball team (1910)

Pounding Poi in Hawaii

Airfield Security Detachment

Manning a Machine Gun

A Touch of Humor

Bombing of Hickam Field (1941)

USS West Virginia at Pearl Harbor (1941)

USS West Virginia aflame (1941)

Wreckage of USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor (1941)

USS Arizona, at height of fire

Kauai District, Territory of Hawaii (1943)

At the hospital to take the physical examination (1943)

 

Motion Picture:

Boys Diving, Honolulu

Loading Sugar Cane

 

Written Work:

The independence of Hawaii (1885)

Fair Hawaii (1913)

Akahi; A kahi. Hawaii's music (1915)

Hula Lou (1916)

Vierra's Royal Hawaiian Singers and Players (1923)

 

Maps:

Map of Hawaii (1886)

Kahoolawe, Hawaii (1926)

 

 

Philippines

President of the Philippines (1917)

Battle of Cavite

Wife of the Philippino Commissioner (1921)

Members of a Filipino string sextet (1924)

Luzon, Phillippine Islands (1934)

Boys cutting and loading lettuce (1937)

Filipino's living quarters (1939)

General Douglas MacArthur (1941)

Building Hit in Air Raid (1943)

Last ditch stand in Luzon (1943)

Brothers in arms (1943)

Fighting Filipino pilot (1943)

Filipino Woman's Club (1944)

 

Other

Baseball team with an Asian American coach

 
 
 
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