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Tomiye Terasaki Interview (ddr-densho-1000-122)
Kibei female. Born October 5, 1910, in San Francisco, California. At age three, sent to live with grandfather and receive education in Fukuoka, Japan. After high school, temporarily moved to Tokyo and assisted family-owned business. In 1929, returned to U.S. to join parents in Sacramento. After arranged marriage to Mr. Tadao Sakita, moved to Los Angeles, …
Narrator William Marutani
Nisei male. Born March 31, 1923, in Kent, Washington. During World War II, was incarcerated at the Pinedale Assembly Center, California, and Tule Lake concentration camp, California. After leaving camp to attend college in South Dakota, was drafted into the U.S. Army and served with the Military Intelligence Service during the postwar occupation of Japan. After …
Narrator Teresa Maebori
Sansei female. Born February 13, 1945, in Caldwell, Idaho. During World War II, parents were incarcerated at the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. After leaving camp, moved to Auburn, Washington, where father's family had a pottery business and mother was a dressmaker. Teresa grew up in Auburn and graduated from the University of Washington. Served in …
Narrator Frank Sumida
Nisei male. Born August 10, 1925, in Chicago, Illinois. Grew up primarily in Los Angeles, California, where parents ran a restaurant. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, where he participating in running an organized gambling operation. Moved briefly to Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming, before being sent to …
Narrator Bill Nishimura
Nisei male, born June 21, 1920, in Compton, California. Raised on a farm in Lawndale, California. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, his father was picked up by FBI and detained at a Department of Justice (DOJ) internment camp in Lordsburg, New Mexico. His family voluntarily moved to Visalia, California, then was forcibly moved to Poston …
Narrator Barbara Reiko Mikami Keimi
Sansei female. Born December 4, 1935, in Sawtelle, California. Grew up in Huntington Beach, California, where father worked as a chauffeur. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, father was picked up by the FBI and taken to the Tuna Canyon Detention Station. He rejoined the family at the Merced Assembly Center, California, and the family was …
Narrator Tokio Yamane
Kibei male. Born Born September 2, 1922, in Hawaii. Moved with family to Hiroshima at age three, then returned to the Fresno area of the U.S. for high school. During World War II, was sent to the Fresno Assembly Center, California, and the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. While at Jerome, refused to answer the so-called "loyalty …
Narrator Jim Hirabayashi
Nisei male. Born October 30, 1926, in small town of Thomas, Washington, on family farm. Attended school in Auburn, Washington, before being removed to the Pinedale Assembly Center and Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Left camp to work in Idaho, and was subsequently joined by family. Postwar, became a social anthropologist, and later became only the …
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University of Washington Bulletin, Undergraduate Honors, 1941-1942 (ddr-densho-241-3)
University of Washington Bulletin, Undergraduate Honors, 1941-1942. mailed to graduate at Tule Lake
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University of Washington diploma (ddr-densho-241-1)
University of Washington diploma mailed to the graduate at Tule Lake
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University of Washington Honors Convocation program (ddr-densho-241-2)
University of Washington Honors Convocation program mailed to the graduate at Tule Lake
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War Ration book (ddr-densho-25-29)
Within the War Relocation Authority Camps, the Office of Price Administration set up a system of War Ration Books. Camp inmates could purchase the books, which contained war ration stamps. The stamps enabled them to purchase items in the army stores in the camps. The purpose of the ration books was to help the war effort …
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Family posing outside of barracks (ddr-densho-254-2)
Senichiro Takeda (left) posing with his sister, her husband, and their two sons.
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Tule Lake Japanese Charges Dismissed (July 23, 1944) (ddr-densho-56-1056)
The Seattle Daily Times, July 23, 1944, p. 11
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Martial Law Reported for Tule Japs. Soldiers on Alert After March by Internees (November 14, 1943) (ddr-densho-56-981)
The Seattle Daily Times, November 14, 1943, p. 1
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Tule Lake Japs Trouble-Bent, Best Testifies (December 21, 1943) (ddr-densho-56-1003)
The Seattle Daily Times, December 21, 1943, p. 8
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Tulean Dispatch Vol. 4 No. 65 (February 5, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-152)
Selected article titles: "Clothing Allowances Are Paid" (p. 1), "Sale of Stored Equipments" (p. 1), "Sophomores Get College Credit" (p. 1), "Council Requests Action on Profits" (p. 1), "Draft Ruling is Clarified" (p. 1), "Council Sends Invitation to Senate Group" (p. 1), "City Council Meeting: Executive Committee to Be Formed" (p. 1), "Married With Income of …
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Tulean Dispatch Vol. III No. 12 (July 30, 1942) (ddr-densho-65-7)
Selected article titles: "Average Age 32: One Third of City Population Employed" (p. 1), "2000 to Attend High School" (p. 1), "Tuleans Face Third Blackout" (p. 1), "Tails Wag in Tule" (p. 1), "Council: Food Supply Assured" (p. 1), "Another Canteen Open: Store Open at Night" (p. 1), "Ward IV List of Leaders" (p. 2), "Census …
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Tulean Dispatch Vol. 6 No. 35 (August 26, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-286)
Selected article titles: "More Chicks Added Here" (p. 1), "Reeders Here This Friday" (p. 1), "Spanish Vice-Consul Visits: Message For Nationals" (p. 1), "No Nite Hours At Placement" (p. 1), "Nisei Feted at Kansas City" (p. 1), "Bids Now on Sale For Scholarship Fund Dance" (p. 1), "Meeting For Farmers Called" (p. 1), "Ozaki Compares: Minidoka …
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Information Bulletin #7 (June 6, 1942) (ddr-densho-65-306)
Selected article titles: "Inoculations Underway. Important: To Avoid Smallpox and Typhoid" (p. 1), "Welcome Dance Tonight in #720. Talent Revue. New Colonists All Invited -- No Adm Charged" (p. 1), "Cooperation for Self-Satisfaction" (p. 2), "Managers Chosen. All Office Will be In -- 07 Apt. 0" (p. 3), "Classes in Woodwork to Start" (p. 3), "Hospital …
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Tulean Dispatch Vol. 5 No. 43 (May 10, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-223)
Selected article titles: "Resettlers Scored Who Leave Jobs On Outside Too Soon" (p. 1), "Minimum Wage Scale Set For Sugar Beet Workers" (p. 1), "Project Evacuee Workers to be Reduced" (p. 1), "Gifted Tulean: A Man With a Winning Hand is Oliver K. Noji" (p. 2), "Roving Reporter: Advantages of Married Life, Bachelorhood Given" (p. 2), …
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Tulean Dispatch Supplement (1943) (ddr-densho-65-277)
Selected article titles: "Best's Report on Segregation Progress" (p. 1), "Facts About Granada WRA Center" (p. 4).
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Tulean Dispatch Magazine Section Vol. I No. 9 (April 1943) (ddr-densho-65-434)
Selected article titles: "'Question 28'" (p. 2), "Mandy's Dream... The Story of a Negro Woman and Her Glimpse Into the Future" (p. 4), "Toppers in Camp" (p. 6), "Band Leader Mickey Tanaka" (p. 11), "The Poultry Farm" (p. 14), "Looking Back on Casaba Hi-Lights" (p. 17).
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Tulean Dispatch Vol. 7 No. 20 (October 28, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-420)
Selected article titles: "Terminated Farmers to Return Badges" (p. 1), "L.A. Buddhist Temple Leased for Negro Use" (p. 1), "Johnson Urges Congress to Deport All Disloyals" (p. 3).