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vh Robert T. Ohashi Interview Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1000-350-15)

Arriving early at assembly center

Nisei male. Born July 24, 1925, in Ketchikan, Alaska. Grew up in Ketchikan, where parents ran a store. During World War II, was removed to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and the Minidoka incarceration camp, Idaho. After leaving camp, went with family to work for a time in Idaho before eventually …

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vh Min Tonai Interview I Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-354-3)

Father's early life in the U.S.: living in Bellingham, Washington

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vh Mary Haruka Nakamura Interview Segment 5 (ddr-one-7-65-5)

Moving to Kent, Washington, where father established a grocery store

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vh Ami Kinoshita Interview Segment 3 (ddr-one-7-70-3)

Family moves to the Washington coast to run an oyster farm

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vh Earl Hanson Interview Segment 26 (ddr-densho-1000-160-26)

Memories of Japanese Americans returning to Bainbridge Island, Washington, after the war

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vh Earl Hanson Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-160-8)

Childhood activities on Bainbridge Island, Washington: playing sports, picking strawberries

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Collection Fujii and Mori Families Collection (ddr-densho-321)

The Fujii and Mori Families Collection consists of 6 photograph albums documenting life in Tacoma and Vashon Island, Washington before World War II, incarceration at Heart Mountain and Jerome concentration camps and relocation to California after the war.

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Collection Akimoto Collection (ddr-densho-129)

The Akimoto collection contains three photographs of the Akimoto family, who operated University Cleaners, a dye works business located in Seattle, Washington. These photos were also used in the book, The Green Lake Japanese American Community, 1900-1942.

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doc Densho eNews, June 2008 (ddr-densho-431-21)

Article titles: "From the Director," "From the Archive: New Neighbors Among Us: The Japanese American 'Resettlement,'" "Densho News: Densho and Collaborators Interview in Denver," "Densho Wins History Award," "Please Forward! Share the eNews with a Friend and Win a Prize," "National News and Events: Report to Congress for Camps Preservation Grants," "Reminders of National Conferences," "Honorary …

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doc Tulean Dispatch Vol. 4 No. 95 (March 15, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-177)

Selected article titles: "25 Seed Men for Work in Washington Wanted" (p. 1), "Letters to CCC Camps" (p. 1), "Shoes Are Assured to Gila Residents: Registration for Ration Book No. 1 at Rivers to Commence" (p. 1), "Relocation Hostel Information Given" (p. 1), "Mental Hygiene Eleven More Expert to Visit Leave Project" (p. 2), "School Jobs …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 19 No. 2 (July 15, 1944) (ddr-pc-16-29)

Selected article titles: "Hunt Leads WRA Centers in Relocation" (p. 1), "Report Shows No Sabotage by Canada Nisei" (p. 1), "Famed Merrill's Marauders Back Rights of U.S. Nisei" (p. 3), "2,100 Graduates High Schools in Relocation Camps" (p. 3), "Draft Evaders Sent to Prison in Washington. Special Rail Prison Car Takes Evacuees To McNeil Island" (p. …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 21 No. 12 (September 22, 1945) (ddr-pc-17-38)

Selected article titles: "Coast Terrorists Burn, Attack Homes of Gis. Anti-Evacuee Hoodlums Destroy Placer County House of Family With Four Sons in U.S. Army" (p. 1), "Police Arrest Two Suspects in Alameda County Shootings" (p. 1), "Third Battalion of 442nd Wins Unit Citation. Highest Organization Honor Given Japanese Americans For Rescue of 'Lost Battalion'" (p. 3), …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 33 No. 12 (September 29, 1951) (ddr-pc-23-39)

Selected article titles: "Washington Cemetery Revokes Ban on Japanese Race Burials at Request of JACL Chapter" (p. 1), "JACL Asks President to Drop 'Enemy Alien' Status from Resident Japanese Nationals" (p. 1), "Removal of 'Subversive' Label From Pre-War Organizations To Be Issei Group's Objective" (p. 2), "Coast Issei Faces Deportation For Pre-war Membership in Group on …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 28 No. 3 (January 22, 1949) (ddr-pc-21-3)

Selected article titles: "Federal Appeals Court Sets Hearing on Case Affecting 5,000 Tule Lake Renunciants" (p. 1), "Reveal Attempt to Destroy Utah Mountain Memorial Ill-Fated Japanese Aviator" (p. 1), "Army Order Bars Marriages Between GIs, Japanese Girls" (p. 1), "U.S. Supreme Court Considers Validity of Hawaii Wartime Law on Language Schools" (p. 2), "Report Problems Affecting …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 30 No. 10 (March 11, 1950) (ddr-pc-22-10)

Selected article titles: "University of Washington Will Begin Study of Nisei, Issei" (p. 1), "Masaoka Brothers Test Case Will Challenge Legality of California Alien Land Law" (p. 1), "Wartime Loyalty of Hawaii Nisei Hailed as House Vote Favors Statehood Proposal" (p. 1), "Japanese American Evacuees Report Decrease in Racial Bias in Sacramento Valley" (p. 2), "JACL …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 64, No. 10 (March 10, 1967) (ddr-pc-39-10)

Selected article titles: "Nipponmachi Renewal" (p. 1), "Japan does best job teaching mathematics, U.S. ranks 8th" (p. 1), "Maryland Mixed Marriage Ban Repealed: Washington, D.C. JACL Active in Push to Repeal Old Law" (p. 1), "D.C. installation oratory placed in the Congressional Record" (p. 1), "Episodes of Evacuation: Crystal City internment" (p. 2), "MDYC workshop to …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Whole No. 2,240, Vol. 96, No. 20 (May 27, 1983) (ddr-pc-55-20)

Selected article titles: "Washington governor signs state worker reparations bill" (p. 1), "U.S. gov't seeking dismissal of NCJAR's $25 billion lawsuit" (p. 1), "Puyallup Memorial gets underway, seeks funds" (p. 1), "Pacifist Floyd Schmoe to be honored with Tufts U. degree" (p. 2), "Little Tokyo patrol cuts down crime" (p. 3), "New Nursing home planned in …

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img Japaense family (ddr-csujad-25-32)

A page from an album containing Japanese family photographs. Three photographs are pasted on the page. Include a group photograph of Japanese male children and a photograph of a Japanese family riding on a car. The photographs appear to be taken in Washington in the early 1900s. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese …

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img Japanese family (ddr-csujad-25-39)

A page from an album containing Japanese family photographs. Includes Japanese male children, men, and women. Two photographs capture a Japanese man wearing academic dress. One photograph captures three Japanese children in kimono. The photographs appear to be taken in Washington in the early 1900s. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization …

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img Japanese family (ddr-csujad-25-31)

A page from an album containing Japanese family photographs. Four photographs are pasted on the page and appear to be taken in Washington in the early 1900s. Include portraits of a Japanese woman in western dress and male children. Also include a group photograph of a Japanese family. See this object in the California State Universities …

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img 9A Class McCarver School (ddr-csujad-25-345)

A group photograph of the 9A Class students at Morton Matthew McCarver Middle School in Tacoma, Seattle. The photograph is taken by A. B. Read Photo Studio in Tacoma, Washington in front to the school building in June 1933. Japanese American students are included. Inscription reads: Read A3102. See this object in the California State Universities …

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img Japanese family (ddr-csujad-25-40)

A page from an album containing Japanese family photographs. Two family portraits and a portrait of a man are pasted on the page. Include Japanese men in suits, women in western dress, and children. The photographs appear to be taken in Washington in the early 1900s. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American …

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img 9A Class McCarver Junior High School (ddr-csujad-25-346)

A group photograph of the 9A Class students of Morton Matthew McCarver Middle School in Tacoma, Seattle. The photograph is taken by A. B. Read Photo Studio in Tacoma, Washington in front of the school building in June 1939. Japanese American students are included. Inscription reads: Read A3772. See this object in the California State Universities …

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doc Colorado Times Vol. 31, No. 4369 (October 2, 1945) (ddr-densho-150-80)

Selected article titles: "California Alien Land Law to be Contested"; "WRA Student Record Transcripts to be Transferred to Washington"; "Deportation Please of Nisei May be Reviewed"; "Burbank, California Opposes Quartering of Japanese Americans"; "Rock is Tossed Into Home of Seattle Japanese"; "Japanese POWs to Work in Cal. Cotton Fields"; "Internees Jailed for Bugle Blowing are Freed …

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img Japanese Americans registering for mass removal (ddr-densho-36-49)

These Japanese are being processed in preparation for exclusion from Seattle, Washington. The processing took place at a civil control station located at 2100 2nd Avenue. Original Seattle Post Intelligencer caption: "Waiting their turn--Members of Seattle's Japanese community in the course of being processed at the civil control station at 2100 2nd Ave. in preparation for …

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