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Immigrants from various countries, Ellis Island, New York
Illustrated page from Harper's Weekly in 1891 depicting various immigrants who passed through Ellis Island, including a "Hindoo" on the left column.

Thumbu Sammy
Identified in Peter Mesenhöller, "Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920" (c. 1905) from another print that bears a caption: Thumbu Sammy, aged 17, Hindoo, ex S.S. Adriatic, April 14, 1911.

Group of men outside a building in San Francisco
Photograph of a group of men, including South Asians with turbans, outside a building in San Francisco, 1910.

Men sitting on a wooden sidewalk
San Francisco. 1910. [Men sitting on wooden sidewalk, one Indian or South Asian man in turban.]

Letter from A.W. Mangum, Jr.
A letter dated September 8, 1907 from Adolphus W. Mangum, Jr. (1876-1924), a soil scientist working in the Puget Sound area, to his mother in North Carolina. Mangum describes his reaction to the Bellingham riot in great detail. A partial transcription reads as follows:

Mr. Shima (1914)
Produced in 1914, this 15-minute, black-and-white film captures the California estate of George Shima (born Kinji Ushijima, 1864-1924), one of the wealthiest Japanese-American farmers of the time. The film is unique in that it contains footage of several South Asian laborers on the farm, in two sections: "Migrant Laborers from India" (1:09-1:20), and "Onion Fields" (1:21-1:44).

"Body Is Cremated on Funeral Pyre" (1906)
An article from the November 3, 1906 edition of the Oregonian recording the alleged "first Hindoo funeral and cremation ever solemnized" in the United States. The funeral was held for Rauma Singh, who died in Astoria from consumption.

Pardaman Singh, Ethnological Epitome of the Hindustanees of the Pacific Coast
Booklet titled "Ethnological Epitome of the Hindustanees of the Pacific Coast" by Dr. Pardaman Singh, published in 1922 by the the Pacific Coast Khalsa Diwan Society in Stockton, California. The purpose of the booklet, Singh mentions in the opening, is to prove that "Hindustanees at present residing in California and other Pacific Coast states belong to the Aryan race.

"The Heathen Invasion of America" (1911)
In this November 1911 article from the Current Literature, an unnamed author stirs fears of a "heathen invasion" in the U.S.

Girindra Mukerji, "The Hindu in America" (1908)
In "The Hindu in America," an article from the April 1908 issue of Overland Monthly, Girindra Mukerji, a student at the University of California, writes about the Indian presence in the U.S.. The editorial note also remarks on the 1907 riots in Bellingham, Washington.

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