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John Birge Sawyer photographs.
BANC PIC 2007.020--AXLOCAL
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Title:
John Birge Sawyer photographsCreator/Contributor:
Sawyer, John Birge, 1881-1970, creatorAbstract:
Chiefly group portraits depicting John Birge Sawyer: with cadets and Psi Upsilon fraternity brothers at University of California,
Berkeley; and with fellow officials of U.S. Immigration Service in Portland, Oregon and Hong Kong, China. One print (a photographic
enlargement of a snapshot) depicts Sawyer and other immigration officials with Chinese immigrants aboard the S.S. Ilford in
Portland, Oregon.
Date:
1902-1913 (issued)Subject:
n-us-ca -- n-us-orChinese -- Oregon -- Photographs
Military cadets -- California -- Berkeley -- Photographs
Chinois -- Oregon -- Photographies
Cadets (Forces armées) -- Californie -- Berkeley -- Photographies
Chinese
Military cadets
California -- Berkeley
Oregon
United States. -- Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization -- Pictorial works
Psi Upsilon Fraternity -- Pictorial works
Psi Upsilon Fraternity.
United States. -- Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization.
Sawyer, John Birge -- 1881-1970 -- Portraits
Note:
Various photographers.
Title and date supplied by catalogers.
Transferred from the John Birge Sawyer papers (BANC MSS 2007/146).
John Birge Sawyer was a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. For the United States Bureau of Immigration and
Naturalization, he was the Chinese Inspector at Portland, Oregon, vice consul at Hong Kong, Chinese and Immigrant Inspector
at San Francisco, and vice consul at Shanghai.
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Pictorial works.
Portraits.
Physical Description:
photoprint
6 photographic prints : black and white ; various sizes.
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC PIC 2007.020--AXLOCAL