
Exempt from exclusion
Chu Hoy, a merchant with the Kwong Sun Chong & Company of 30 Mott Street in New York City, left Seattle for China to bring his wife and children into the United...

Family meal
In this 1957 photograph, Walter E. Washington and his family sit down for dinner together. Ten years later, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Washington Mayor of...

Family photo
Three generations of the Sutherland family sit for a photograph in their front garden. This portrait is one in a series that includes photographs of Government...

Family portrait
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Public Buildings Service photographed Federal buildings, officials, and workers and their families. This image of...

Farm family in field
This undated photograph showing a farm family relaxing in a field is part of the vast photographic record of the U.S. Information Agency (USIA), established in 1953....

Father and son in traditional dress
Chun Jan Yut, age seven, poses here with his father, Chun Duck Chin, near the turn of the 19th Century. This photograph was included with Chun’s immigration file.

First lady and presidential mother
Born in 1925, Barbara Pierce, seen here in the early 1930s, grew up in Rye, New York. At the age of 16, she met future president George H.W. Bush and married him four...