Letter from the German Hospital about interned enemy alien Ernst Hamann
1917
A detail from a 1917 letter sent by San Francisco's German Hospital to the Commissioner of Immigration at the Angel Island station, concerning Ernst Hamann. Hamann was a German national who reached the United States days after President Wilson's enemy alien proclamation of April 1917 and was interned on Angel Island. The document is held by the National Archives among case files from the San Francisco district.
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