Nov 13, 2009

Photos: Angel Island Immigration Station

Carved Chinese Poetry at Angel Island

Fence and Building

Building Interior

Posted by Sherrie Thai of Shaire Productions.

Here are some photos of my visit to the Angel Island Immigration Station near San Francisco. Despite the notion that it was the "Ellis Island of the West", Angel Island was about "exclusion", mainly for the many Chinese immigrants. The poetry carved into the walls were visual lamentations of some detained.