Angel Island Links

1. Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation - visit the museum and learn about immigration and Asian history along the pacific rim. www.aiisf.org

2. HoustonChronicle.com - Angel Island - journeys remembered by Chinese Houstonians.
www.chron.com/content/chronicle/special/angelisland/index.html

3. Angel Island Association - a cooperating association, supporting Angel Island State Park. The website contains visitor, historical, event information, and a nearly live snapshot of Ayala Cove. Photographs and interviews of Chinese-American immigrants detained at Angel Island in San Francisco Bay document memories of perseverance amid racial discrimination and hardship. www.angelisland.org

4. Angel Island Company - provides basic facts and information about catering, bike rental, and tram tours on Angel Island. www.angelisland.com

5. Angel Island, San Francisco, Chinese Immigration History ANGEL ISLAND. A Hell for Some Who Sought the Gold Mountain. www.sandiego-online.com/forums/chinese/htmls/angel.htm

6. California State Parks: Angel Island State Park
www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp
www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=1309
http://cal-parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=468

7. International Channel--Angel Island- Info on Chinese Immigration, Living conditions, Medical Exams, Interrogation, Poetry. The end of every page contains audio translations of some of the poetry carved into the walls of Angel Island's barracks by detainees. http://cal-parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=468

8. Angel Island: Conditions Life on Angel Island. Includes a timeline 1848-1995
www.itp.berkeley.edu/~jsu/asam/angelcond.html

9. Prologue: Angel Island: "Guardian of the Western Gate"
An excellent article on the life of the Angel Island Immigration Station, including photos, from Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration Summer 1998, vol. 30, no. 2.
www.nara.gov
www.nara.gov/publications/prologue/angel1.html
http://www.nara.gov/regional/findaids/chirip.html

10. Photographs and a history of Angel Island as well as the text and translation of the Chinese poetry carved into its walls.
www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/angel/angel.htm

11. www.fortunecity.com/littleitaly/amalfi/100/angel.htm
This document reproduces in its entirety a book published by The Women's American Baptist Home Missionary Society, Chicago, in 1917. It describes the processing of Asian immigrants through Angel Island in San Francisco Bay - the "Ellis Island" of the west. It also describes the various segments of San Francisco's Asian community, as perceived by a woman missionary.

12. www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2002/janfeb/features/angel.html Stanford Magazine-Angel Island: Breaking the Silence

13. www.jocelync.com/lwps_form.html Angel Island Activities-Take an I.N.S.Interrogation

14. Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation (AIISF), San Francisco, CA, USA
www.aiisf.org

15. Chinese Immigration to San Francisco - 1874, Article: The Chinese ã Facts for Atlantic Papers Museum of the City of San Francisco Home Index By Subject By Year Biographies San Francisco Real Estate Circular For the Month of September, 1874
www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/1874.html

16. A Brief History of Chinese Immigration to America. www.ailf.org/heritage/chinese/essay01.htm

17. Chinese Immigration to the United States The Learning Page Features Timeline Home Page home Rise of Industrial America Chinese Immigration to the United States Overview Documents.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/chinimms/chin

18. Chinese Immigration and Chinese in the United States: Records in the Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration Records Related to Chinese Immigration/all regions.
www.nara.gov/regional/findaids/chirip.html

19. CHINESE-AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION TO TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD Chinese labor was suggested, as they had already helped build the California Central Railroad, the railroad from Sacramento to Marysville. http://cprr.org/Museum/Chinese.html

20. Ancestors in the Americas: The Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act The Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act Approved December 17, 1943 As a result of our wartime alliance with China, this act was passed by the U.S. http://www.cetel.org/1943_repeal.html