In sight of America
Subtitle: photography and the development of U.S. immigration policy
By: Anna Pegler-Gordon.
Series: American crossroads -- 28
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780520252974; 9780520252981
Subjects: Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) -- History; Angel Island Immigration Station (Calif.) -- History; Portrait photography -- Political aspects -- United States -- History; Identification photographs -- United States -- History; Immigrants -- United States -- Identification -- History; Immigrants -- Health and hygiene -- United States -- History; Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- United States -- History; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History -- 19th century; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century; Mexican-American Border Region -- Emigation and immigration -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: First impressions : Chinese exclusion and the introduction of immigration identification, 1875/1909; title: Photographic paper sons : resisting immigration identity documentation; title: Ellis Island : observation station; title: Ellis Island : photo studio; title: The imaginary line : passing and passports on the Mexican-U.S. border, 1906/1917; title: The dividing line : documentation on the Mexican-U.S. border, 1917/1934.