Immigration Service date stamp on an enemy alien file
1917
A detail of a letter to the Commissioner of Immigration at Angel Island, stamped as received by the San Francisco office of the U.S. Immigration Service. The file concerned Ernst Hamann, a German who reached the United States days after President Wilson's April 1917 enemy alien proclamation and was interned on Angel Island.
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