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Loading Sugar cane
In this short length film, it is possible to see a large receiving car being loaded by several men. In the foreground, other men can be seen cutting sugar cane for it to be loaded onto the car. A person wearing white trousers, a blue coat, and a…
Japanese Sugar Plantation Workers
This image shows Japanese sugar plantation workers on their home in Wainaku, clutching onto their very young children. Japanese immigrants first arrived in Hawai’i not long before this photograph was taken and akin to the Chinese immigrant’s…
Cheque of Jewish Owned Cochise County Bank in Tombstone Sends Money to and From Jewish Merchants
A cheque in coloured ink for £150, issued at Cochise County Bank on behalf of A. Cohen. The cheque was issued by Cochise County Bank, a family run Jewish owned bank in Arizona. That receiving the cheque, by the name of A. Cohen, is a Jewish…
Sugarcane Field
In regards to migration, sugarcane fields were a place where many people worked in order to make some money, so they could afford to live in their new home and support their families in a new environment. There were a lot of strikes to improve work…
Letter from Mabel Hubbard Bell to Alexander Graham Bell, Tuesday November 21, 1876
A handwritten letter from Mabel Hubbard Bell to her husband, Alexander Graham Bell dated Tuesday November 21, 1876 describing the events of her day. Mabel states the different modes of transportation used to travel to ‘Oakland across the bay’ from…
Chinamen washing for Gold near Northbend
The dry plate image, which is creased and is fading, still tells us enough about the Chinese immigrants who were transported on the trains, working to find gold through traditional means of washing for gold. Due to the efforts of the Canadian…
Rural Chinese setting
This wet plate glass negative photo is in good condition despite the rough edges around the image due to the complicated procedures required to maintain pictures in this regard. In the picture of a Chinese settlement we can see a various amount of…
Cartoon, Supporting the exclusion of Chinese Immigrants
This Editorial Cartoon by N.H.Hawkins appeared in the Saturday Sunset Newspaper on the 24th August 1907, it is a black and white cartoon depicting White Immigrants being welcomed into Canada comparatively Chinese Immigrants, are being kept out by a…
Feather Pluckers from Loy Sing Guen
The object is a metal Plucker, used to pluck feathers from ducks and chickens. The inscription on the side indicates its origin came from China where the tool was forged and transported into Victoria by the Chinese migrants due to the gold rush of…
Crowding the deck of the Komagata Maru (1914)
Black and White photograph depicting crowding on the deck of the Komagata Maru, the photographs shows male Sikh Immigrants waiting on-board the ship
The Komagata Maru ship carrying 376 passengers was refused entry into Canada on the grounds of…
The Komagata Maru ship carrying 376 passengers was refused entry into Canada on the grounds of…