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vh Masuko Oyama Interview Segment 4 (ddr-one-7-51-4)

Growing up in Portland, where parents operated a hotel

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vh Masuko Oyama Interview Segment 8 (ddr-one-7-51-8)

First impressions of the Portland Assembly Center

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doc Granada Pioneer Vol. III No. 89 (September 5, 1945) (ddr-densho-147-298)

Selected article titles: "Oyama Case: To Test Land Law Legality" (p. 1), "Rescind All Individual Exclusion Orders" (p. 1), "To Write on Center Closing" (p. 1), "Statehood for Hawaii Opposed; Native Sons Hit" (p. 3).

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img Summer hike (ddr-densho-363-11)

A group poses for a photograph on a summer hike from Heart Mountain. Front row (left to right): Asano Marutama, Kiyo, Kimiko, Nancy Oyama, Hatsuye Shimizu; Back row: Mr. Yamamoto, Kimi Kuwahara, Tomi Ichida, Toshiko

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vh Albert A. Oyama Interview Segment 6 (ddr-one-7-52-6)

Participating in Japanese community activities

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vh Albert A. Oyama Interview Segment 16 (ddr-one-7-52-16)

Reflections

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vh Albert A. Oyama Interview Segment 9 (ddr-one-7-52-9)

First impressions of the Portland Assembly Center, Oregon

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vh Albert A. Oyama Interview Segment 15 (ddr-one-7-52-15)

Finishing school and getting married

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vh Albert A. Oyama Interview Segment 10 (ddr-one-7-52-10)

Daily life in Minidoka

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vh Albert A. Oyama Interview Segment 12 (ddr-one-7-52-12)

Serving in the military

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vh Albert A. Oyama Interview Segment 1 (ddr-one-7-52-1)

Family background

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vh Albert A. Oyama Interview Segment 4 (ddr-one-7-52-4)

Picnics and holidays

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vh Albert A. Oyama Interview Segment 11 (ddr-one-7-52-11)

Returning to Oregon; father tries to restart newspaper business

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vh Albert A. Oyama Interview Segment 8 (ddr-one-7-52-8)

Father's arrest by the FBI following the bombing of Pearl Harbor

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vh Albert A. Oyama Interview Segment 5 (ddr-one-7-52-5)

Attending school

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vh Albert A. Oyama Interview Segment 2 (ddr-one-7-52-2)

Father's Japanese newspaper business

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vh Albert A. Oyama Interview Segment 7 (ddr-one-7-52-7)

Description of father's newspaper business

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vh Albert A. Oyama Interview Segment 14 (ddr-one-7-52-14)

Losing mother in a flood

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vh Albert A. Oyama Interview Segment 3 (ddr-one-7-52-3)

Prewar recreational activities

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vh Albert A. Oyama Interview Segment 13 (ddr-one-7-52-13)

Returning to Oregon and deciding to become a doctor

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img Adelphons Group Photo (ddr-one-1-3)

Black and white photographic negative of the Adelphons, a young women's service group of the Portland Chapter of the Japanese American Citizen's League, in formal attire. Back Row (left to right): Sumiko “Sue” (Kawasaki) Fujino, unidentified, Minnie (Oyama) Abe, Ochiyo (Nishioka) Hasuike, unidentified, Mary (Furusho) Iwasaki, Tamae "Butch" Yamamoto, Kathryn (Kawata) Niita, Irene (Kawata) Nakagawa, Sophie …

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img Mess Hall picnic (ddr-densho-363-42)

Nancy Oyama and Kimi Kuwahara at a mess hall workers' picnic along the Shoshone River. The caption on the bottom of the photograph reads "Mess picnic" and the caption on the back of the photograph reads "May 13, 1944 Shoshone River".

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doc Termination Notice for Chairman of Community Council (ddr-sbbt-2-33)

A termination notice for Yoshito Fujii upon his retirement from the role of Chairman of Community Council.

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Narrator Masuko Oyama

Nisei female. Born February 21, 1927, in Portland, Oregon. Grew up in Portland where parents ran a hotel business. During World War II, removed with family the Portland Assembly Center, Oregon, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. After leaving camp, attended high school for a time in Salt Lake City, Utah, before returning to Portland.

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doc The Northwest Times Vol. 2 No. 59 (July 14, 1948) (ddr-densho-229-126)

"New Men Urged to Sign Up for Alaska Cannery Work; 700 to 800 Still Needed" (pg. 1), "500 Attend Rites for Mrs. Oyama, Victim of Vanport, Oreg. Flood" (pg. 2), "Art of Making Box Lunches to be Taught in Portland" (pg. 4)

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