Immigrant inspection card
PARTNER
Densho
Visit partner
OBJECT ID
ddr-densho-23-12 (Legacy UID: denshopd-p23-00012)
PARENT COLLECTION
DESCRIPTION
Immigrants were required by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to carry an inspection card. During their voyage from Japan, Issei were checked daily to ensure that they were not carrying communicable diseases (see bottom portion of first page). Information from the card indicates that the steamship voyage from Japan took approximately eighteen days. This card belonged to Bunshiro Tazuma, aged thirty-three.
DATE
1917
OBJECT GENRE
Ephemera
OBJECT FORMAT
Document
FACILITY
CREATORS
PERSONS/ORGANIZATIONS
CONTRIBUTOR
Densho
PREFERRED CITATION
Courtesy of the Tazuma Family Collection
RIGHTS
Copyright restricted