CYNTHIA TOM    PAINTINGS
PAPER SONS:
The Chinese Exclusion Act 1882-1942;
prevented laborers from bringing potential wives/Chinese women into the US, limiting their chances of procreation. A male Chinese baby-
the Chinese laborer's pension plan
Hom Shee Mock
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Lee Ho  1924 (my paternal great grandmother)
Upon her husband's death, she had to return to the U.S. to live with her son in the back of a joss house in Chinatown, San Francisco. 
She had bound feet.

1923
Hom Shee Mock, my grandmother with their
paper son.
Wah Him Mock purchase my grandmother and married her in China and I am assuming he purchased this little boy.