Portrait of Dalip Singh Saund, first Asian-American Congressman, and a farmer from California's Imperial Valley

Jon R. Friedman

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Title: Portrait of Dalip Singh Saund, first Asian-American Congressman, and a farmer from California's Imperial Valley
Description: Painted portrait of Dalip Singh Saund, oil on canvas
Bibliographic Citation: Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives - http://clerk.house.gov/art_history/highlights.html?action=view&intID=315, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20025176
Creator: Jon R. Friedman
Type: image
Language: English
Rights: Public Domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20025176
Original Item: sjsu-library.github.io
Identifier: unionist--image-0332
IIIF Manifest: https://sjsu-library.github.io/unionist/img/derivatives/iiif/unionist--image-0332/manifest.json
Category: Image
Related Transcription: unionist--text-0250
Location of Related Text in Issue: 1834-03-13 p.03.14
Caption: Dalip Singh Saund (1899-1973) was the first Asian-American Congressperson, a Democrat representing California's Imperial Valley, where he had previously worked as a farmer. He identified with the immigrant Sikh community, coming to the United States in 1920. Many Sikhs were agriculturalists, helping to cultivate the massive rice crop for which California is now famous. I imagine that the Burleigh brothers would have appreciated Saund's achievement, from many perspectives.