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John Birge Sawyer photographs [graphic].
BANC PIC 2007.020--AX; BANC PIC 2007.020--AX
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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-orSawyer, John Birge -- 1881-1970 -- Portraits
United States. -- Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization -- Pictorial works
Psi Upsilon Fraternity -- Pictorial works
Chinese -- Oregon -- Photographs
Military cadets -- California -- Berkeley -- Photographs
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Various photographers.
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John Birge Sawyer was a graduate of the Univeristy 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.
Transferred from the John Birge Sawyer papers (BANC MSS 2007/146).
Type:
graphicPhysical Description:
graphic
photoprint
6 photographic prints : b&w ; various sizes.
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC PIC 2007.020--AX
BANC PIC 2007.020--AX