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Letter from Bernard L. Stone re: Sheikh Mujib Way
Letter dated August 20, 1997 from Alderman Bernard L. Stone to Alderman Patrick Huels, who also served as Chairman for the Committee on Transportation and Public Way, regarding the ordinance to honorarily designate a section of West Devon Avenue as "Sheikh Mujib Way." Stone explains that Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, plans to attend the unveiling of the sign.

City Council Proceedings re: Sheikh Mujib Way
Report on the Chicago City Council proceedings for September 10, 1997, in which the council passed the ordinance authorizing the Committee of Transportation to honorarily designate a portion of West Devon Avenue as "Sheikh Mujib Way." The recommendation was unanimously passed.

Mary Bamford, "Angel Island: The Ellis Island of the West" (1917)
Published in 1917, Angel Island: The Ellis Island of the West was written by Mary Bamford a missionary visitor to the Angel Island station.

Mahatma Gandhi "Champion of Liberty" Stamp
On January 26th, 1961, the United States Postal Service issued 120 million 4 cent stamps and 40 million 8 cent stamps honoring Mahatma Gandhi in the "Champions of Liberty" series. The US was the second country in the world to issue a stamp honoring Mahatma Gandhi after India.

Photograph of Bhagwan Singh Gyanee
Bhagwan Singh Gyanee, president of the Indian revolutionary Ghadar party at the American Federation of Labor building, Washington, D.C.

Photograph of Bhagwan Singh Gyanee in Yokohama, Japan
Photograph of Bhai Bhagwan Singh Gyanee taken in Yokohama, Japan. In November 1913, Bhagwan Singh was deported from Canada and being returned to India. He escaped the ship when it was docked in Japan. In this studio photograph of Bhagwan Singh, he poses with a sword and gun to indicate that freedom for India from the British could only be achieved through armed revolution.

Photograph of Bhagwan Singh's father
A photograph taken in Malaysia in the early 1900s of Bhagwan Singh's father, Sarmukh Singh (center). To Sarmukh Singh's right is his relative, Mehar Singh, and to his left is his friend.

Photograph of Bhai Bhagwan Singh Gyanee
A photograph taken of Bhai Bhagwan Singh around the time of his arrest in San Francisco in connection with the Hindu-German Conspiracy of 1917.

Photograph of Bhagwan Singh's friend
Photograph of a friend of Bhagwan Singh posing in front of a car that had been presented to him.

Photograph of Bhagwan Singh Gyanee
Photograph of Bhagwan Singh around the time of his arrest in connection with the Hindu-German Conspiracy of 1917.

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