Patients wrote on the hospital walls as early as 1910. Nearly a century later, the messages and drawings were at risk of being lost forever.
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Angel Island’s former immigration hospital was at risk of collapse after sixty years of neglect until renovation efforts transformed the building into a museum.
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Chinese poems reference the once-green walls of the men’s barracks. It was one of several paint layers covering inscriptions left behind by former immigrants.
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