#nogales

Gin Gan Fee

#ArchivesAncestors

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.

Series: Chinese Exclusion Act Case Files, 1911-1976. Record Group 85: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004. (National Archives Identifier 5831061)  

Nogales, Arizona/Sonora border, during the Mexican Revolution.