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Leung's photo and birth certificate

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The 1924 United States immigration act specifically exempted from quota restriction professors and ministers of any religion as well as their wives and minor children

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On 12 September 1908, Quan Foy was advised that on 8 May 1908, the Bureau of Immigration with the approval of the Department of Commerce and Labor he was granted thirty days annual leave of absence and two hundred and twenty days leave without pay to…

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Lee Jin Yee (Ruth Lee) age 5 years, 4 months old; The application was signed by her father, Lee Chun Yuen. They were living at 4427 2nd St., Portland, Oregon.

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handwritten copy of Chinese Exclusion Act

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NYT off to China to study Soy Bean.pdf
New York Times runs a page-length report on Yamei Kin's trip to China to study soy food on USDA's behalf to alleviate the meat shortage of the U.S. during World War I.

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