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<ul><li><b>Scope and content:</b>  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)</li></ul></div>
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1896<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1896-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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