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Keywords: Chinese carving on the wall at Angel Island internment camp, California LCCN2010630294.tif 1 photograph digital TIFF file color Notes Credit line Carol M Highsmith's America Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ; Gift and purchase; Carol M Highsmith; 2009; DLC/PP-2010 031 ; Like a bigger Alcatraz Angel Island is an away place for the city now as a park but formerly as a site for activities undesirable in the midst of the city Since the first use of the island as an artillery station in the 1860s it has hosted many generations of gun batteries up until 1962 Meanwhile it served as the Bay Area's primary quarantine and disinfection station as the immigrant processing and detention center known as the Ellis Island of the West and as a prisoner of war camp during World Wars ; Forms part of Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Title date and subjects provided by the photographer 2006 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2010630294 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/04300/04301a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 04301 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 04301 220px PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ Photographs by Carol M Highsmith
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