picture brides
Photograph-arranged marriages
Picture brides were women in the early twentieth century who emigrated to marry men they knew only through photographs.
The practice was common among Japanese and Korean immigrants to the United States and Hawaii, where men working abroad would exchange photos with prospective wives in their home countries.
The marriages were typically arranged by families or matchmakers, with couples meeting in person for the first time at the port of arrival.
- photographImage from a camera
- letterWritten symbol or message
- immigrationRelocating abroad permanently
- ship manifestDocument listing vessel's contents
- marriageFormal union between partners
immigration papers · matchmaking · wedding · husbands · matrimony · spouse · steamship · kimono · transnationalism · passport · suitcase · port of entry · new world · emigrate · alliance · ethnic enclaves · acculturation · family honor
- Japanese CanadiansNikkei, internment, internment camps, redress, Greenwood
- Nikkei HistoryNikkei, Japanese Americans, Japanese Canadians, internment, internment camps
- immigrationimmigrant, immigrants, visa, refugee, citizenship
- Chinese AmericaChinese Exclusion Act, Chinatown, Chinatowns, transcontinental railroad, railroad workers
picture brideslove matches
Marriages from mutual affection
childhood sweethearts · elopements · high school sweethearts · whirlwind romance · mail-order brides
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