177 results for: Immigration
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Cuban detainees watching TV at McNeil Island Penitentiary, February 1981
McNeil Island is a 6.6 square mile island located in south Puget Sound, lying 2.8 miles across the water from the nearest town. The site was utilized for 142 continuous years as an island-based penal institution, beginning in 1869 with a jail built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1909 the facility became a federal prison, the McNeil…
ID Number:2000.107.123.19.04
Date:1981
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Joe Garza and others outside worker housing at Golding Farms, Yakima Valley, May 1989
The Braceros program during World War II brought Mexican workers to the Yakima Valley to ease labor shortages, and even after the program ended in 1948, Mexicans and Mexican Americans continued to provide a substantial part of the Valley’s agricultural workforce. By the 1980s, the Yakima Valley was home to large communities of Mexican immigrant workers, as well as their…
ID Number:2000.107.124.38.10
Date:1989
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Filipino veterans Benjamin Escano, Jose Morales, and Fidel Rubias at their lawyer's office, October 30, 1990
During World War II, thousands of Filipinos fought for the US armed forces, including many who suffered years of poor treatment in prisoner of war camps or who continued fighting a guerrilla war after the US abandoned the Philippines. These veterans were promised US citizenship in return, but after the war many were told they were too late to become…
ID Number:2000.107.128.04.01
Date:1990
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Baptist missionary Hanh Nguyen with Giu Vo and her family in their apartment, Seattle, March 1982
After the Vietnam War ended in April 1975 with the fall of South Vietnam to North Vietnamese communist forces, many thousands of people from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos fled violence and persecution in their home countries and sought refuge in the United States and elsewhere.This image shows a family of refugees in their apartment shortly after arriving in Seattle. Hanh…
ID Number:2000.107.132.14.01
Date:1982
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The Nguyens in their Pioneer Square grocery store, Seattle, December 28, 1977
Thuy-Ngan (left) and Hy-Van Nguyen came to Seattle in 1975 with their seven-month-old son. They were part of the large number of refugees who settled in the Seattle area after the fall of Saigon. Both in their 30s, they had held professional jobs in Vietnam: Thuy-Nan taught French at the University of Saigon, and her husband was an architect. Unable…
ID Number:2000.107.132.14.02
Date:1977
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Mau Duc and Cuc Nguyen working at New Saigon Market, Seattle, December 1990
Mau Duc Nguyen and his family were among thousands of people who escaped from Vietnam after the fall of the country to the communists. Having been a South Vietnam naval officer, Mau was sent to a prison camp but managed to escape. After months of planning, he and his wife Cuc and their three children, plus various family members and…
ID Number:2000.107.132.15.01
Date:1990
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Tho Nguyen meeting his family at Sea-Tac airport, Seattle, July 26, 1983
After the 1975 fall of Saigon, Tho Nguyen, a South Vietnamese army veteran, spent a year in a prison camp. Once released, he and his wife Lachanh tried to escape from Vietnam, taking their four children and her mother in an overcrowded boat. One by one, the children and Lachanh’s mother died. The boat was intercepted by a Russian ship…
ID Number:2000.107.132.16.06
Date:1983
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Suzie Ordogh receiving Americanism Medal at Seattle World's Fair, September 16, 1962
September 16, 1962 marked I Am an American Day at the Seattle World’s Fair. After the speeches and the naturalization of some 100 new citizens, Seattle swimmer Zsuszu (“Susanna," “Suzie,” “Susie”) Ordogh received an “Americanism medal” from the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). Ordogh, at age 16, was one of 40 Hungarian athletes who had defected during the 1956…
ID Number:2000.107.136.15.01
Date:1962
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Michael Ramos and Rafael at the Salvadoran-Guatemalan Refugee Program, Seattle, February 28, 1985
This photo was taken at the Salvadoran-Guatemalan Refugee Program office in Seattle. The program supported refugees from El Salvador and Guatemala with legal aid, assistance with getting political asylum, and paying bail bonds for refugees who were arrested. If bail was not posted within a specified time period, refugees were sent to camps in California or Arizona. On the occasion…
ID Number:2000.107.151.03.01
Date:1985
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Thongdy family members clearing land for family farm, April 12, 1982
This image shows five members of the Thongdy family on an 85 acre plot of land they plan to turn into a farm. The Thongdys were from Cambodia, but the brutal Khmer Rouge regime forced them to flee. The family hid in the jungles for several months before escaping to Thailand. They spent several years in a refugee camp in…
ID Number:2000.107.151.05.01
Date:1982