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doc Letter regarding the Larry Tajiri Memorial Foundation awards banquet (ddr-densho-338-147)

September 9, 1971

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-338-147/

vh Joseph Norio Uemura Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1014-3-8)

Moving to Denver, Colorado

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vh Toyoko Okumura Interview Segment 23 (ddr-janm-13-6-23)

Moving to Denver, Colorado

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vh Mary Hamano Interview Segment 21 (ddr-densho-1000-215-21)

Leaving camp for Denver, Colorado

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vh Shyoko Hiraga Interview Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-413-1)

Growing up in Denver, Colorado

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vh June Takahashi Segment 31 (ddr-densho-1000-88-31)

Moving with father to Denver, Colorado

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vh Lynne Horiuchi Interview Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-501-7)

Growing up in Denver, Colorado, just after the war

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vh Bill Hosokawa Interview Segment 24 (ddr-densho-1000-129-24)

Moving to Colorado and working for the Denver Post, covering the Korean and Vietnam wars

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img Lawrence Miwa poses on porch (ddr-densho-437-1)

Inscribed on the back of the photograph "11/1/53, At 2400 S. High Denver, Colorado".

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doc Letter from Lawrence Miwa to Oliver Ellis Stone concerning claim for James Seigo Maw's confiscated property (ddr-densho-437-265)

Handwritten letter sent from Denver, Colorado, hoping that his claim could be sent to Sen. Carroll

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vh Lynne Horiuchi Interview (ddr-densho-1000-501)

Sansei female. Born June 10, 1945, in Denver, Colorado, where parents moved after leaving camp during World War II. Grew i[ om Denver, where father had an insurance company. Attended the University of Colorado and then Colorado College. Studied abroad in Italy before moving to California. Eventually earned a PhD and became an architectural historian.

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img Nurse Matilde Honda attending a patient at Colorado Central Hospital, Denver, Colorado (ddr-csujad-14-29)

Nurse Matilde Honda attending a patient at Colorado Central Hospital, Denver, Colorado. She was formerly employed in public health nursing by Los Angeles Health Department. April 6, 1943. Photo by Francis Stewart. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMLSC_TOMO_029

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doc Short term leave permit (ddr-densho-356-820)

Short term leave permit for Yuriko Domoto to visit Denver, Colorado to escort patients to receive medical care.

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img Family portrait (ddr-densho-359-1614)

A photograph The War Relocation Authority took of a Japanese American family in Denver, Colorado at Eleanor Apartments in the Spring of 1945.

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vh Carolyn Takeshita Interview (ddr-densho-1000-217)

Sansei female. Born June 2, 1937 in Los Angeles, California. Family removed to Poston concentration camp, Arizona, and resettled in Denver, Colorado, after World War II. Moved to Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1950. Returned to Colorado and attended high school and college in Denver. Worked as a speech pathologist and educator. Active in …

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Collection Rocky Shimpo Collection (ddr-densho-148)

This collection contains several issues of the Rocky Shimpo, a vernacular newspaper published out of Denver, Colorado. The paper was published in both English and Japanese.

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vh Joseph Norio Uemura Interview (ddr-densho-1014-3)

Nisei male. Born July 3, 1926, in Portland, Oregon. Grew up in Portland before moving to Denver, Colorado, where his father, a Baptist minister, was transferred. Lived in Denver during World War II, where family helped Japanese Americans leaving camps to find housing and work. Paul Robert and Jean Schuman Hanna Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, since …

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doc Denson Tribune Vol. I No. 45 (August 3, 1943) (ddr-densho-144-86)

Selected article titles: "Segregation Details Disclosed at Joint Meeting. Center Officials Report on Denver WRA Conference" (p. 1), "Northern Colorado Area Now Closed to Evacuees" (p. 1), "A Better Lesson: On Concentration" (p. 2), "Segregation: Not Punishment" (p. 2).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-144-86/

vh Shyoko Hiraga Interview (ddr-densho-1000-413)

Nisei female. Born 1927 in Denver, Colorado. Grew up in Denver, where father was a tailor, then established a newspaper, the Rocky Nippon. During World War II, father was removed as editor of the newspaper, arrested by the FBI, and interned in a Department of Justice camp. James Omura took over as head of the …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-413/

Narrator Lynne Horiuchi

Sansei female. Born June 10, 1945, in Denver, Colorado, where parents moved after leaving camp during World War II. Grew i[ om Denver, where father had an insurance company. Attended the University of Colorado and then Colorado College. Studied abroad in Italy before moving to California. Eventually earned a PhD and became an architectural historian.

https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/990/

doc "Japanese Nisei" (ddr-densho-419-1)

A poem written by Min Yasui. The original poem is a part of the Minoru Yasui Collection which is held at the Auraria Library Special & Digital Collections Department, University of Colorado Denver. Contact [email protected] for use permissions and more information.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-419-1/

doc "Why Are We Here?" (ddr-densho-419-4)

A poem written by Min Yasui. The original poem is a part of the Minoru Yasui Collection which is held at the Auraria Library Special & Digital Collections Department, University of Colorado Denver. Contact [email protected] for use permissions and more information.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-419-4/

Narrator Carolyn Takeshita

Sansei female. Born June 2, 1937 in Los Angeles, California. Family removed to Poston concentration camp, Arizona, and resettled in Denver, Colorado, after World War II. Moved to Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1950. Returned to Colorado and attended high school and college in Denver. Worked as a speech pathologist and educator. Active in …

https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/302/

img Former Los Angeles fruit and vegetable clerk Joe Sitsuda weighing nails in Union Hardware Store, Denver, Colorado (ddr-csujad-14-28)

Former Los Angeles fruit and vegetable clerk Joe Sitsuda weighing nails in Union Hardware Store, Denver, Colorado, where he has worked since December 1, 1942. He came from Colorado River incarceration camp. March 2, 1943. Photo by Tom Parker. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMLSC_TOMO_028

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-14-28/

vh Rose Tanaka Interview (ddr-manz-1-145)

Nisei female. Born October 11, 1926, in San Luis Obispo, California. Grew up in San Luis Obispo, where parents farmed. During World War II, removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. Left camp with the help of the Nisei Student Relocation project and moved to Denver, Colorado.

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