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Alien Head Tax receipt for Valentina Suntzeff, upon entering the United States, 1923

Item

Title
Alien Head Tax receipt for Valentina Suntzeff, upon entering the United States, 1923
Identifier
suntzeffmem3
Description
Receipt for Alien Head Tax paid by Valentina Suntzeff upon entering the United States. The receipt is dated October 16, 1923 on the back. Suntzeff and her family had lived in Harbin, China for three years, having left their native Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. Suntzeff and her family had traveled on the S.S. President Jackson from Kobe, Japan to Seattle, Washington. Upon arrival in the United States, the Suntzeff family first moved to San Francisco; four years later the family moved to St. Louis
Date
16 October 1923
Rights Holder
Bernard Becker Medical Library, Washington University in St. Louis
Rights
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