Ou Shee Eng Immigration Interview

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[Stenographer] In the matter of the application of Au Shee entered on SS Princess Adelaide, November 30, 1920, for admission to the United States as the wife of Ng Ark Wing, merchant, Seattle.

[Chairman] Description of Applicant: Age 20; height 5’1”; occupation housewife, accompanying husband Ng Ark Wing, 719 King Street, Seattle Washington. Marks: Double pierce both ears; brown spot right temple; large scar across forehead to left center; two brown spots right jaw. ....

[Chairman in English, Interpreter in Toisanese] How much did this man pay your mother for you?

[Ou Shee in Toisanese, Interpreter in English] I don’t know.

[Chairman in English, Interpreter in Toisanese: How does it come that your husband, being quite Americanized, did not have the white man’s ceremony performed?

[Ou Shee in Toisanese, Interpreter in English] I don’t know, because my mother wanted me to be married the old way.

[Chairman in English, Interpreter in Toisanese] What is your object in coming to the United States?

[Ou Shee in Toisanese, Interpreter in English] Coming to live with my husband and keep house for him.

[Chairman] I move the case be deferred pending the examination of other witnesses.

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Excerpt of Ou Shee Eng Immigration Interview, Seattle, Washington, 1920.

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Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience

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