For the past few months, Aisling and I have been searching for the identification cards created for Chinese immigrants using the Bertillon system of measurement. While we have found many earlier and later identification cards from the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Bertillon cards created during the system’s short-lived period of use, between 1903 and 1906, have eluded us. The Bertillon system was used to create a database of Chinese laborers who were exempt from the Chinese Exclusion Act and thus allowed
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