Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942
Miné Okubo
Paper and ink, 1942-1944
Okubo and her brother lived in the Tanforan Assembly Center camp in California but were relocated to a camp in Topaz, Utah as part of the Central Utah Relocation Project.
Image courtesy of the Japanese American National Museum, Gift of Miné Okubo Estate.
Miné with Open Newspaper
Surrounded by anti-Japanese slogans, Berkeley, California, 1941
Miné Okubo
Paper and ink, 1942-1944
Image courtesy of the Japanese American National Museum, Gift of Miné Okubo Estate.
Chinese American, Vol. 1, No. 1
Edited by Wong Ching Foo
February 3, 1883
Image courtesy of Courtesy of Gordon C. H. Wang (王家軒). Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) Collection.
“Horesewomen Leading the Suffrage Parade”
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Sunday, May 5, 1912
In this image, Lee is pictured riding on horseback during the 1912 New York City Women’s Suffrage Parade.
Image courtesy of The Brooklyn Public Library.
United States of America Certificate of Residence
United States of America Certificate of Residence, No. 118506
The Geary Act required Chinese immigrants to carry a Certificate of Residence, a precursor of the Green Card system, to prove that they had legally entered the country.
Certificate No. 118506 for thirty-three-year-old S.Y. Pang is a Certificate of Residence issued in New York on March 20, 1894.
Image courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.
