8.12.3b Poems of dispair carved into the walls of dormitory room, Angel Island Interment Camp, Angel Island, San Francisco, California

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Poems of dispair carved into the walls of dormitory room, Angel Island Interment Camp, Angel Island, San Francisco, California, June 24, 2003. From 1910 until 1945, Angel Island served as a detention center to facilitate the exclusion of the immigration of Chinese people under the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. Black and white photograph of a dormitory room.