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Molly K. Maeda Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-420-4)
The Japanese American community in prewar Dee, Oregon
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Molly K. Maeda Interview (ddr-densho-1000-420)
Nisei female. Born November 23, 1919, in Dee, Oregon. Grew up in Dee, where parents had a farm. Finished college before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. During World War II, removed to the Portland Assembly Center, Oregon, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. After leaving camp, lived for a time in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, before returning to …
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"Girls from Dee" (ddr-densho-259-272)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Five Nisei girls who lived in Dee [Oregon]. This picture was taken on the south side of the old Dee Japanese Community Hall. I can identify Mikie Kageyama and Hannah Kinoshita but I don't recognize the other three."
Narrator Molly K. Maeda
Nisei female. Born November 23, 1919, in Dee, Oregon. Grew up in Dee, where parents had a farm. Finished college before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. During World War II, removed to the Portland Assembly Center, Oregon, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. After leaving camp, lived for a time in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, before returning to …
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Milton and Molly (Kageyama) Maeda Collection (ddr-densho-287)
The Milton and Molly (Kageyama) Maeda Collection consists of photographs and ephemera documenting Milton and Molly Maeda's lives from their upbringings in Portland, Oregon & Dee, Oregon, to attendance at Oregon State College (now Oregon State University) where they met, their marriage in the Portland Assembly Center, and their lives after World War II.
Narrator Shig Imai
Nisei male. Born January 16, 1920, in Dee, Oregon. Grew up in Dee, a former sawmill town, where father worked for the Oregon Lumber Company. Shig went to live in Japan for three years at the age of seven before World War II. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, volunteered for the U.S. Army and eventually …
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Shig Imai Interview (ddr-one-7-49)
Nisei male. Born January 16, 1920, in Dee, Oregon. Grew up in Dee, a former sawmill town, where father worked for the Oregon Lumber Company. Shig went to live in Japan for three years at the age of seven before World War II. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, volunteered for the U.S. Army and eventually …
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Nisei girls at the Japanese Community Hall (ddr-densho-259-175)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "20 or so Nisei girls gathered along the south side of the Dee Japanese Community Hall this may represent a Japanese language school, because Mrs. Haru Tsuji, who was a Japanese language teacher, is standing in the background."
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Nisei boys at Japanese language school (ddr-densho-259-187)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "A group of the young Dee Nisei boys pictured with [Japanese language teacher] Haru Tsuji. Since Toru Hasegawa is also in this picture, maybe some of the Oak Grove Nisei attended the language school at the Dee Community Hall."
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The Kageyama Family in front of their home (ddr-densho-287-12)
[Left to right]: Mikie Kageyama, Lena Kageyama, Molly Kageyama Maeda, Ichino Kageyama holding Bob Kageyama, Yasuta Kageyama.
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The Kageyama children on the steps of their house (ddr-densho-287-9)
[Left to right]: Mikie Kageyama holding Bob Kageyama, Lena Kageyama, Molly Kageyama Maeda.
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The Kageyama Family in front of their home (ddr-densho-287-13)
[Left to right]: Ichino Kageyama holding Bob Kageyama, Mikie Kageyama, Molly Kageyama Maeda, Lena Kageyama, Yasuta Kageyama.