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Field name | Value |
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Title | John A. Robinson, U.S. Immigration Service, San Francisco, California. Business Cards, Undated |
Date | n.d. |
Document Type | Ephemera |
Reference | MS 1816 |
Library / Archive | California Historical Society |
Collection Name | John A. Robinson Papers |
Description | Receipts and business cards, including businesses run by Chinese families in San Francisco. |
Biographical Note / History | Inspector, U.S. Immigration and Naturalisation Service, San Francisco, California. Early career devoted to the arrest and deportation of prostitutes in San Francisco and surrounding areas; also responsible for the transport of aliens to deportation sites. Special assignments directed from Washington D.C. included an investigation of the white slave market on the West Coast. John A. Robinson was also a member of the Board of Special Inquiry in the 1930s. |
Theme(s) | Religion, Ethnic Identity and Community Relations |
Places | San Francisco, California, United States |
Nationality | Chinese |
Keywords | immigration, immigrant, health and sickness, food, import, animals, insurance, police |
Additional Information | Please note: Some of the metadata for this document has been taken from the California Historical Society catalogue. |
Language | English; Chinese |
Document(s) linked to |
John A. Robinson, U.S. Immigration Service, San Francisco, California. Case Notes, Documents, Undated |
Copyright | California Historical Society |