Illustration of an scene from Harry Hom Dow's play, "A Day in the Chinese Division," circa 1938

Authors

Unknown

Files

Identifier

ms111-0122

Collection Number

Harry Hom Dow Papers, 1911-1985 (MS 111): Series 02: Personal Files

Description

Hand drawn illustration of a scene from a play written by Harry Hom Dow about the review of a case in the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service in which the applicant, a Chinese man played by Dow, is denied admission to the United States after being caught with a "coaching document." The caption at the bottom of the drawing reads, "Wan To Go applies for admission to the U.S.," and the inscription reads, "To Harry, a memento of the night Jan. 7, 1938, [signature indiscernible]"

Subject Heading

Chinese Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History.; Dow, Harry Hom, 1904-1985; United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--History; United States.--Immigration and Naturalization Service

Date

1938

Document Type

Artwork

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Keywords

Harry Hom Dow, Chinese immigrants

Recommended Citation

Unknown, "Illustration of an scene from Harry Hom Dow's play, "A Day in the Chinese Division," circa 1938" (1938). Harry Hom Dow Papers (MS 110), 1911-1985. 10.
https://dc.suffolk.edu/dow/10