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Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization officials at their annual conference posing for a group portrait on the White House grounds, Washington, D.C., December 3-5, 1929
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| Title | Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization officials at their annual conference posing for a group portrait on the White House grounds, Washington, D.C., December 3-5, 1929 |
| Photographer | Scherer |
| Date | 1929 |
| Notes | President Hoover is in front row, 7th from left.
Caption on image: Annual Conference of Immigration and Naturalization Officials, Dept. of Labor Received by President Hoover, Dec. 3-5, 1929
Scherer DC Photo News 1006 F St. NW, Wash., D.C.
Handwritten on verso: Weedin-8th from left in front row.
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| Contextual Notes | The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was formed in 1933 by a merger of the Bureau of Immigration and the Bureau of Naturalization. Both of those Bureaus were controlled by the Department of Labor. Immigration had previously been part of the Treasury Department and later the Department of Commerce and Labor. As a matter of interest, after World War I, Congress attempted to stem the flow of immigrants, mainly coming from Europe, by passing the Quota Act in 1921 which set the annual immigration ceiling at 350,000 and the National Origins Act of 1924 which reduced the annual ceiling to 165,000 and ultimately limiting the number of newcomers by assigning a quota to each nationality based upon its representation in previous U.S. Census figures. In 1929, an annual immigration ceiling of 150,000 was made permanent, with 70 percent of admissions slated for those coming from northern and Western Europe, while the other 30 percent are reserved for those coming from Southern and Eastern Europe. |
| Subjects (LCSH) | United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service--Officials and employees--Congresses; Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964; Weedin, Luther, b. 1872; White House (Washington, D.C.) |
| Location Depicted | United States--Washington, D.C. |
| Digital Collection | Panoramic Photographs
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| Order Number | PPC065 |
| Ordering Information | Restrictions apply to the ordering of this image. Please contact photos@u.washington.edu for more information. |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Weedin Family photograph collection. PH Coll 14 |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Physical Description | Silver gelatin, b & w; 9 1/4 x 32 1/2 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photograph at 400 dpi in TIFF format using a Graphtec CSX300-09, resized and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm's software JPEG2000 Extension. 2010. |
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