Keywords: Photograph of a merchant from Chinese Business Partnership Case File for Quong Lee Company. - NARA - 296501.tif Scope and content In addition to records generated by federal agencies immigration agency investigative case files related to the Chinese Exclusion Acts 1882-1943 frequently contain documents collected by the agencies as evidence such as individual and family photographs This is a photograph of a business parter certified as a merchant and therefore able to travel to and from the U S as a Chinese subject of exempt class under the Chinese Exclusion Acts 1882-1943 General notes 296501 Local identifier Department of Justice Immigration and Naturalization Service San Francisco District Office - NARA's Pacific Region San Bruno NRHAS 1000 Commodore Drive San Bruno CA 94066-2350 1896 Record group Record Group 85 Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service 1787 - 2004 Record group ARC 414 Immigration Chinese Business Partnership Investigation Case Files compiled 1894 - 1944 Series ARC 296496 File unit Immigration Chinese Business Partnership Investigation Case File for Quong Lee and Company in Dayton Nevada 1896 - 1896 File unit ARC 296500 Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NRHS-85-INSSFPARCAS-13561 145 -1 yes Other versions <gallery> File Photograph_of_a_merchant_from_Chinese_Business_Partnership_Case_File_for_Quong_Lee_Company _-_NARA_-_296501 tif tif File Photograph_of_a_merchant_from_Chinese_Business_Partnership_Case_File_for_Quong_Lee_Company _-_NARA_-_296501 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Chinese American history United States in the 1890s Chinese Exclusion Act NARA TIF images with categorized JPGs |