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    Joseph Tape Hunting

    Joseph Tape with his hunting rifle and bird dogs, circa 1880.

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    “What a Chinese Girl Did”

    An article profiling the “accomplishments” of the Tape Family featured in The Morning Call, circa 1892.

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    Gertrude Tape

    Portrait of Gertrude Ella Tape in the early 1890s.

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    Gertrude Tape and Friend

    Gertrude Tape (left) and an unidentified girl on Clay Avenue, behind the Chinese Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, 1894.

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    Russell Street House

    The Tape home at 2123 Russell Street, Berkeley, circa 1895. Photograph by Mary Tape.

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    Mary, Mamie, and Frank Tape, 1890s

    Mary, Mamie, and Frank Tape in the 1890.

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    Frank Tape at the Pacific Mail Steamship Company

    Frank at his father’s office at the Pacific Mail Steamship Company wharf in the late 1890s.

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    Tape Family Postcard

    Mamie (right) with her children, Emily and Harold, and her sister, Emily, pose for a tourist postcard in Portland, circa 1912.

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    Herman and Emily Lowe

    Herman Lowe, Mamie’s husband, with their daughter, Emily, circa 1912.

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    Emily, Mary, Frank, and Gertrude

    Photo of Emily, Mary, Frank, and Gertrude in the early 1910s.

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    Module 3: Religious Life

    Vinay Lal

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    Module 5: Politics, Public Life, and the Motherland

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    Chapter Overview: Thai Americans

    Kanjana Hubik Thepboriruk

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    Module 1: Departures and Arrivals

    Kanjana Hubik

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    Module 2: New Homes and Returns

    Kanjana Hubik Thepboriruk

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    Module 3: Places and Spaces

    Kanjana Hubik Thepboriruk

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    Module 4: Unity and Division

    Kanjana Hubik Thepboriruk

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    Module 5: Belonging and Building Community

    Kanjana Hubik Thepboriruk

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