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doc Outline of University of California study of evacuation and resettlement (ddr-csujad-26-2)

Outline for an academic social science study, the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS), led by the University of California of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Outline highlights area of administrative, social, political and personal areas to be studied by a team of researchers encamped with incarcerees. See this object in …

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doc University of California, evacuation and settlement study: case history I (ddr-csujad-26-26)

Correspondence regarding a profile of incarceree Harry Osaka written by Robert Spencer. The profile was taken during a trip to Fresno for Harry's mother's funeral with Spencer as the escort and includes Harry's life and family story, farm business before incarceration, religious practices, holiday practices, description of funeral. Profile included as part of the Japanese American …

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img Group panel at the Ninth Annual California Landscape Gardeners Convention (ddr-jamsj-1-505)

Dinner reception for the Ninth Annual California Landscape Gardeners Convention held at Cabana Hotel.

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doc Program closing Service for Central California Young People's Christian Conference (ddr-densho-341-136)

Inserted between pages 10 and 11

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doc State of California Articles of Incorporation for Imagire Sewing School (ddr-ajah-6-131)

Caption below photo: Shizuko Imagire's Articles of Incorporation. She opened her original dress shop and sewing school in Alameda, CA and later moved to Oakland, CA. November 4, 1922

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doc Sacramento City public schools California Junior High School report card (ddr-csujad-55-1993)

Report card from Sacramento Junior High School belonging to Allan Minoru Hida reflecting his grades in each subject for his 6th grade year. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1996

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img Sacramento Rural League Champion, Northern California Class B Champion 1941 (ddr-csujad-55-2575)

Riverside baseball team, 1941. L to R: Front row -- David Kawaya, Shig ?, Sam Masahara, Takehashi Tanaka, ? Yamada, Frank Yamada. Second row -- Shig?, Mits Yamada, Bill ? Kay Masumoto, Mr. Mishigima, Jack Ono, ?, Jimmy Kashiwada, Tad Takeuchi. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2739

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doc California Butchers' pension plan: personal history and past employment questionnaire (ddr-csujad-55-2184)

Application for the California Butchers' pension plan filled out by George Hideo Nakamura. Includes Nakamura's personal information and employment history. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2286

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doc Letter from Southern California Flower Market, Inc. to Mr. S. [Sei] Hamada, November 1, 1950 (ddr-csujad-5-303)

A letter from Southern California Flower Market, Inc. to the members. It notifies that Southern California Flower Market, Inc. is dissolved and closes the business on October 31, 1950; and the successor is the Southern California Flower Growers, Inc. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: oki_06_18_001

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doc Military Intelligence Service Language School: Camp Savage, Minnesota, 1942-1944 (ddr-csujad-1-187)

This book was published "to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Military Intelligence Service Language School and to document the records of wartime episodes of Japanese-American Nisei soldiers in the Pacific Theater of Operation and to compile a collection of treasured remembrances of Camp Savage ..." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization …

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doc Letter to Kaneji Domoto from Jack at the University of California - Berkeley's Botanical Garden (ddr-densho-329-199)

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vh Betty Morita Shibayama Interview Segment 36 (ddr-densho-1000-152-36)

Deciding to move to San Jose, California in the 1970s; husband obtains his American citizenship

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vh Dale Minami Interview Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-141-2)

Father's life in Gardena, California: gardening and running a sporting goods store in Little Tokyo

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vh Arthur Ogami Interview Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-154-11)

Initially having to share a barracks room with another family in Manzanar concentration camp, California

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vh Jimi Yamaichi Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-106-16)

"Exonerated" of all charges by a judge in Eureka, California for lack of due process

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vh Lorraine Bannai Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-113-4)

An exceptional experience: growing up in Gardena, California surrounded by a large Japanese American community

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vh Kenge Kobayashi Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-37-3)

Curfew, contraband, and removal of persons from the "red zone" and the "yellow zone" in California

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vh Arthur Ogami Interview Segment 39 (ddr-densho-1000-154-39)

Returning to Los Angeles, California, from Japan in 1953, finding a job a day after arriving

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vh Jimi Yamaichi Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-106-2)

Description of the family farm in San Jose, California, "[W]e worked three days for $10..."

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vh Peter Irons Interview II Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-127-8)

Publishing first book, leaving Boston for a teaching position at University of California at San Diego

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vh An Oral History with Mitsuhiko H. Shimizu - Segment 1 (ddr-csujad-29-57-1)

Issei community leader and businessman in Los Angeles's Little Tokyo recounts his arrest by Federal Bureau of Investigation after Pearl Harbor, his experiences in internment camps in North Dakota and Louisiana, and the Manzanar incarceration camp, California. This oral history was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project, Oral History Program, CSU Fullerton. Translated into …

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vh An Oral History with Reverend Seytsu Takahashi - Segment 1 (ddr-csujad-29-58-1)

Issei Buddhist bishop and superintendent of Kayasan Temple in Little Tokyo since 1931 recounts his wartime experiences and internment at Fort Missoula, Montana; Livingstone, Louisiana; and Crystal City, Texas. Transcribed in both Japanese and English. This oral history was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project, Oral History Program, CSU Fullerton. Audio is found in …

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