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Kala Bagai and Son Photograph
Kala Bagai Chandra and son Ram Bagai at Exposition Park, Los Angeles. Ram's graduation from University of Southern California (USC)

Bagai Family Photograph
Left to right: Ram Bagai, Brij Bagai, Madan Bagai

Ajudhia Persaud
There's a thwarted love story implied in the entry records of Ajudhia Persaud, a student at McGill University in Montreal and a repeat visitor to New York to see his wife Laika.

Motee Singh's Arrival Record
Motee "Kid" Singh, a professional boxer, arrives in New York in 1931 on the steamship Munamar and is identified on the passenger manifest as an "East Indian" able to read and write English and "Hindoo." The featherweigh

Rose Su Persaud's Arrival Record
In 1924, a 23-year old widow named Rose Su Persaud arrived at Ellis Island and declared her intention to go live with her sister Agnes Premdas at the Phyllis Wheatley Hotel in Harlem, founded and run by Marcus Garvey’s Pan-Africanist United Negro Improvement Association.

Henry Sivenandan's Census Record
This U.S. Census record from 1940 provides a picture of a family from British Guiana with Indo-Caribbean last names identified as "Negro." Henry Sivenandan, an elevator operator in a loft building, and his wife Agnes, who worked in a dress factory, lived in Harlem with their toddler Saundra and Agnes' widowed older sister, Rose Persad, who worked as a seamstress in a dress factory.

Photograph of Clarice Ercel Reid Khan
Born in Georgetown, the capital of what was then British Guiana, Clarice Ercel Reid arrived in New York City on the steamship Mayaro in 1922, at the age of eighteen. In her years in the United States, she lived in West Harlem and worked as a housekeeper. She is pictured here in a photo from 1931, when she declared her intention to become a U.S. citizen. She became a U.S.

Photograph of Kamala Cornelius Asirvatham with her Three Daughters
Photograph depicting Kamala Cornelius Asirvatham, member of the Pennsylvania College for Women class of 1918, with her three daughters. A framed image of a man is also shown. This image was reproduced in the June 1938 issue of the Pennsylvania College for Women Alumnae Recorder magazine.

Photograph of Kamala Cornelius Asirvatham, Dr. Asirvatham, their children, and members of the Lucknow University Boys Hostel Group
Photograph depicting Kamala Cornelius Asirvatham, Dr. Asirvatham, their children, and members of the Lucknow University Boys Hostel Group in 1935-1936. Individuals are named below the photograph. Image was reproduced in the June 1938 issue of the Pennsylvania College for Women Alumnae Recorder magazine.

Letter of PCW Endowment and Building Fund Regarding Kamala Cornelius
Letter from PCW Endowment and Building Fund National Headquarters to all fund chairmen regarding establishment of a fund named for alumna Kamala Cornelius.

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