Chinese Immigration and Chinese in the United States: Records in the Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration.

Segregated Chinese Files in Washington, DC

Record Group 85, National Archives (Archives I), Washington, DC

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Register of Chinese Letters Received, 1898-1903	Chinese General Correspondence, 1898-1908	Chinese Letters Sent, June 9, 1900-Aug. 9, 1908	Customs Case File No. 3358D, Related to Chinese Immigration, 1877-1891
Chinese Smuggling File, 1914- ca 1921	Chinese Division File, ca. 1924-1925	Records Relating to Certificates of Residence	Statistical Record of Arrests of Chinese 1905-1907
	Record of Chinese Deportations, Jan 1902-June 1903	Record of Chinese Census for the District of Montana and Idaho, ca. 1894-1896	INDICES

INDICES:

Miscellaneous Name Index, ca 1893-1932, RG 85 - Entry 4 - 13 boxes of index cards

Name index to persons (immigrants, INS employees, and others) within general subject categories. Refers to old Chinese Files (i.e., Entry 132) as well as general INS subject correspondence files after 1908 (Entry 9+). Some parts missing.

Subject Index, ca. 1893-1932 (aka the "Reserve Index"), RG 85 - Entry 5 - 11 boxes of index cards

Alphabetical subject index (partial) to entries 7 and 9, and 132.

Guide cards denote the major subjects: aliens; appeals; applications; appointments; arrests; US Attorney General, 1911-1924; attorney; bonds; cattlemen; Chinese; circulars; disbursing clerks; Division of Naturalization; embezzlers; Secretary of Labor; Secret Service; Secretary of State, 1905-34; and Secretary of the Treasury. There are additional subjects not denoted by guide cards.

1 Admission of Aliens -- Automobiles, Spokane, WA
2 Automobiles (T) -- Communist, Philadelphia, PA
3 Communist, Pittsburgh, PA -- Contract Labor, Prosecutions, Minneapolis
4 Contract Labor, Prosecutions, Montreal -- Expenditures, Vancouver
5 Expenses, Atlanta -- Section 9 Fines, Honolulu
6 Section 9 Fines, Jacksonville -- Importations requested
7 Importations requested -- Offices (S)
8 Offices (T) -- Secretary of State, 1905-1919
9 Secretary of State, 1905-1919 -- Secretary of State, 1925-1928
10 Secretary of State, 1925-1928 -- Secretary of the Treasury
11 Sumas, employees -- Zone 20, District of Columbia

Index to General Files, 1898-1908, RG 85 - Entry 131 - 1 box / 1 ft.

This limited index consists of one box of 3x5 inch index cards, arranged numerically, and is actually a cross-index. It relates to files taken from the old Chinese Files and given new general subject correspondence file numbers in or after 1908. The numerical index is by the old Chinese File number. The index card may give additional information, such as the alien's name, but will definitely give the new file number. It is NOT an index to the old Chinese Files (entry 132). For indices to Entry 132, see Entries 4, 5, and T-458.

Subject Index to Subject Correspondence [and case files] of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1903-1956, RG 85 - Entry 6 - MICROFILM T-458 - 31 reels

Indispensable to any research on an INS, immigration, or naturalization topic. The index is alphabetical by subject. Cards for each subject are arranged chronologically but may be divided into cards referring to different series of records. The index serves as a reference to a variety of INS record systems, many in NARA custody, including the 56,000 Series (Entry 9 and the much larger undescribed accessions), Bureau of Naturalization Series (Entry 26), and Segregated Chinese Files (Entry 132). The index also contains occasional references to files still in INS custody, among them certain A-Files, C-Files, Registry Files, Visa Files, T V & E Files (destroyed), Petition Files, Declaration Files (destroyed), and CO (post-1956) Subject Files. Locations: NARA Washington, DC, Room 400; NARA New York City; NARA San Bruno; [NARA Seattle?]. T-458 available for purchase as a publication from NARA.