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President Kennedy meets with Mexico-United States Interparliamentary Group
President John F. Kennedy meets with Mexico-United States Interparliamentary Group in Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. The group presented the President with a silver tray from the Governor of the state of Jalisco, Mexico Juan Gil Preciado (who was not present at the meeting). (L-R) Senator Clair Engle of California; unidentified; President Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Ambassador of Mexico Antonio Carrillo Flores; Senator Albert Gore, Sr. of Tennessee; Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana; Congressman D.S. Saund of California.
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Portrait of Indu Bhushan De Majumdar
Portrait of Indu Bhushan De Majumdar from his 1918 publication America Through Hindu Eyes.
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Saint Nihal Sing, "Opportunity in India and America" (March 1908)
An article by Saint Nihal Singh (misspelled as "Sing") in the March 1908 Hindustan Review on the industrial character of Americans. Singh writes that Americans are essentially an "industrial and commercial people," and that the laboring class earns a certain amount of social privilege in the U.S. This point is set against the conditions in India, where "[w]orking men [...] would merit scant respect, probably be socially ostracized." "Here lies," Singh writes, "an essential different between India and America." Singh blames the institution of caste for this difference.
Sing goes through a list of figures from North America, whose lives allegedly began in poverty: industrialists Henry C. Frick (steel), James J. Hill (railroads), John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, as well as U.S. presidents Abraham Lincoln, U.S. Grant, and James Garfield. Sing also spends some of the article relating anecdotes about Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and Stephen Girard.
In addition to describing the American narrative of "rags to riches," Singh comments on the increasing criticism in the U.S. press against trusts and monopolies, insisting, nevertheless, that "America continues to be the continent of opportunity." Singh ends the article with a lesson for India: "The people of Hindustan need an inspiration to thrust out into the world. They have to quit being consumers of goods manufactured by other peoples and to so organize their resources, both of persons and property, as to become producers of all they need."
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The Guru Govind Singh Sahib Educational Scholarships (1912)
A notice for the Guru Govind Singh Sahib Educational Scholarships, written by Sirdar Jawala Singh on January 1, 1912. The notice explains that the scholarship will be tenable for 3 years, commencing August 1912; the scholarship will include free board, lodging, expenses covered, and a small amount of pocket money for three years; and that all scholars will reside at a hostel to be called the “Guru Nanak Deva Vidyarthi Ashram,” Berkeley, and lead a simple and abstemious life. Applications were to be sent to Mrs. Bertha L.C. Pope (the wife of Berkeley Professor Arthur Pope) at 2708 Virginia Street, Berkeley.
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Sudhindra Bose, "An Indian Educational Commission to America" (1919)
In this article from the September 1919 issue of The Hindustan Review, Sudhindra Bose describes the U.S. education system and its potential lessons for the education system in India, which he describes as "frozen" and "unsatisfactory." Bose proposes an Indian commission to be sent to the U.S., citing similar precedents from Japan and England. "Indian leaders who are interested in the educational advancement of India should send a commission to America at an early date," he writes. Bose, who taught at the University of Iowa, mentions that University President Walter A. Jessup would be pleased to host the proposed commission. At the end of the article, Bose mentions R.K. Kehmka, the President of the Hindustan Association of America (HAA), would be willing to head the commission. The address for HAA is given as 116 West 39th Street, New York City.
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A Hindu Miracle Man Will Cure Lum (1941)
An episode from "Lum and Abner," an American radio comedy that aired as a network program from 1932 to 1954 and was created by co-stars Chester Lauck (who played Columbus "Lum" Edwards) and Norris Goff (Abner Peabody). Set in the fictitious town of Pine Ridge, the show regularly played on "hillbilly" humor. In this particular episode the pair are visited by the Hindu prince "Aloo Kush," known for his healing powers.
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East Indian workers at Calapooia Lumber Company
Photograph of six Sikh workers at the Calapooia Lumber Company in Crawford, Oregon ca. 1909.
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Chandra Gooneratne, University of Chicago Polo
Photograph of Chandra Gooneratne dressed in the University of Chicago polo team uniform, 1926. Born in Ceylon and educated in the U.S., Gooneratne was also a lecturer on the Circuit Chautauqua, speaking on topics such as "The Soul of India," "India's Awakening," "indian Poetry," "Mahatma Gandhi."
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Miss Sarmi
Harold Swenson registering Miss Sarmi, Hindu student, 15-year old freshman.
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Sydna White
Photograph of Sydna White, dressed in a Sari and posing with a tabla.
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"Mohammad Ali"
Pamphlet describing the lectures of Mohammad Ali, born in Punjab as the son of Dr. Sadiq Ali, the physician of the Maharaja of Kapurthala. The Maharaja, incidentally, attended the 1893 Chicago World Fair. According to the biography provided, Ali arrived in the U.S. in 1900, where he would found the headquarters for his tea and cocoa importing company in Detroit, Michigan. Ali's lecture titles are given throughout the pamphlet, including "India's Millions," "Wit and Wisdom of the Far East," and, "The Hope of India." Several reviews are given, as well as a photograph of the author dressed and posing.
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The United States of India (November 1926)
The November 1926 edition of the The United States of India (Vol. 4, No. 5) celebrates the fourteenth anniversary of the Hindustan Gadar Party, with images of ten of four hundred of India's martyrs who were hanged between 1915 and 1916. The issue features the following articles and headlines: "India's Heroes," "Britain Plans Intervention in China," "Comments on Dr. Annie Besant's Lecture," "A Manifesto Against Conscription," and "The New Age" by Rabindranath Tagore, continued from the previous issue.
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Have We A Dusky Peril?
An article from the September 16, 1906 Puget Sound American describing recent "Hindu" immigration to Bellingham, Washington.
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Photograph of Swami Abhedananda
Portrait of Swami Abhedananda from India and Her People (1906), published by the Vedanta Society, New York.
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Map of Sheikh Mujib Way
Work order with a map indicating the location in which honorary street-name sign of "Sheikh Mujib Way" is to be installed on Devon Avenue on October 28, 1997. Various other details are marked on the work order, including details of the installation.
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