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Angel Island and the poems on the wall
1910
Angel Island, San Francisco Bay
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Ellis Island processed arrivals in hours. This station held Chinese arrivals for weeks and sometimes years, under exclusion laws written to keep them out. Detainees carved classical poems into the barrack walls about the sea, the wait and the humiliation. A park ranger found them under the paint in 1970, days before the buildings were to be burned.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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