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A variety of Chinese business cards included in Wong Hong King’s case file. Qyong Yuen Long Co. Seattle, WA; Ng Gong Taxi, Vancouver, BC; Kwong Fat Lung Co., Vancouver, BC; Kwong Fat Lung Co., Seattle, WA; Olympic Cab Co., Seattle, WA; California…

combination of the images of the Chinese in Chinese Exclusion Files

two cartoons and one newspaper of Chinese Exclusion files

a few Chinese gold miners and their white coworkers on a railway track

a Chinese man was receiving questioning at Angel Island when Chinese Exclusion Act was in effect.

Laquered sewing boxes like this one were frequently found in Maine deepwater captains' homes, a useful gift or something that a captain's wife might have bought for herself when shopping in Canton. Chinese lacquered sewing box from Canton. Gilt…

Chinese workers work in snow to build the transcontinental railroad of the U.S. and a Chinese worker's certificate of identity

Before he left San Francisco in 1902, Tom Sing swore in a Declaration of Chinese Merchant so that he would be able to reenter the U.S. Merchants were in the category exempt from Chinese Exclusion Act.