No other place in America is more associated with trans-Pacific migration than Nogales, Arizona! Wait, huh? Maybe not, but our collection of Chinese Exclusion Act Case Files created by the Nogales office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service is done being scanned! Coming soon to the National Archives Catalog!
Gin Boy Ngoo
Images from the case file for Gin Art Wing, proprietor of the Wing Mow store in Nogales, Arizona, which includes these sweet pictures of his American-born children, Gin Gan Fee and Gin Boy Ngoo.
Since September is National Honey Month, we celebrate the critter who brings us liquid gold, the honey bee. While buzzing around the National Archives Catalog, Archives Technician Aaron came across this photograph of some honey bees in space on the Space Shuttle Challenger. The caption of the photograph reads, “STS-41C mission specialists Terry Hart (left) and George Nelson (background) examine an aluminum box containing honey bees, a student submitted shuttle experiment, on the Challenger’s middeck.” I just hope those bees stay in the box, because if they get out, it’s going to be one wild space ride with nowhere to run.