402 items
402 items
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Memorial Day service (ddr-densho-114-614)
Issei parents attending the service at Lake View Cemetery in Seattle, Washington.
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Bake sale (ddr-densho-114-450)
Members of the Women's Auxiliary Club displaying their baked goods at the Nisei Veterans Committee bazaar.
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Gold Star parents (ddr-densho-114-290)
Parents pointing to their son's name on the honor roll board while a nisei veteran and his wife look on.
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Nisei Veterans Committee bazaar (ddr-densho-114-448)
This bazaar was held at the Nisei Veterans Committee Clubhouse.
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Four men around memorial photos (ddr-densho-474-47)
Photo of four elderly gentlemen beside a table with several memorial photos (undated)
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Group of friends (ddr-densho-287-199)
Photograph of a group of 13 people standing and sitting on the ground. Front row left to right: Al and Walt. Second row: Harlan. Third row: Pearl, Arden Brownell, and unidentfied. Fourth row: Thelma, Lois, Larrance and Elmer Anderson. Back row: Jack Anderson, Walstrom, and Bud Wolf. Written on the album page below the image is: …
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Funeral service for an Issei woman (ddr-densho-24-23)
Funeral service for Sawano Tazuma (90 yrs old at the time of her death). L to R: Jim (60 yrs), Yukio (57 yrs), Bunshiro (102 yrs), Nobi (64 yrs), Elmer (70 yrs).
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Group of friends (ddr-densho-287-198)
Photograph of a group of 12 people standing and sitting on the ground. Front row left to right: Bud Wolf, Walt, Jack Anderson, and John. Second row left to right: Al, Harlan, and unidentified. Third row left to right: Arden Brownell, Larrance and Elmer Anderson. Back row left to right: Thema and Walstrom. Written on the …
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Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-81)
Excerpt: "I think I wrote to you on the weekend that Joe was away. Elmer took Evelyn and me to dinner in Jerome and supper in Eden that day." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.
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Letter from Larry Tajiri to Margaret Anderson, editor of Common Ground (ddr-densho-338-439)
Larry Tajiri responding to Margaret Anderson's proposal to write a new piece on the Japanese American situation at the end of 1943. He also discusses the work of Elmer R. Smith and Barron B. Beshoar.
Narrator Elmer Tazuma
Issei male. Born March 30, 1916, in Kure, Japan. Immigrated with parents to Seattle as a child, where parents ran several hotels and apartment buildings in the International District, as well as the Tazuma Ten Cent store. In his interview, discusses Japanese American hotel ownership from the early to mid-1900s and the role of the hotel …
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Memorandum from Elmer Rowalt, Acting Director, War Relocation Authority, to all employees of the War Relocation Authority, January 16, 1943 (ddr-csujad-48-83)
Memorandum to all employees of the War Relocation Authority highlighting the War Bond savings program and the push to have 90% of employees pledge 10% of their salary and reminding employees that their salaries have been increased by the overtime bill passed by Congress. (6-4069-BU-COS-WP). Transcription is found in item: ecm_wells_9083. See this object in the …
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Final order, judgement, and decree as to certain named plaintiffs who have submitted affidavits in lieu of oral testimony (ddr-csujad-12-10)
According to these court proceedings the plaintiff by Charles Elmer Collett, Assistant United States Attorney, Attorneys for Defendants, Tsugitada Kanamori is to be hereinafter identified as a citizen of the United States of America. This document makes it clear that the purported renunciation of his citizenship is "null, void, and without legal effect upon that status …
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Crowning of the Reunion Queen (ddr-densho-114-405)
Shiro Kashino is crowning the Reunion Queen as part of the National Nisei Veterans Reunion festivities.
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Memorial service (ddr-densho-114-736)
Hiroshi Miyamura, a Medal of Honor recipient, placing a wreath at the Public Safety Building monument in downtown Seattle.
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Nisei veteran (ddr-densho-114-561)
Hiroshi Miyamura, a Medal of Honor recipient, is autographing books at Nisei Veterans Committee Hall.
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Nisei War Memorial Monument (ddr-densho-114-602)
Dr. Kelly Yamada of the JACL presenting a wreath at Lake View Cemetery in Seattle, Washington.
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Funeral service for an Issei man (ddr-densho-24-24)
Funeral service for Bunshiro Tazuma who died on 3/29/88 at 104 years old. Sons & spouses (L to R): Frances (59 yrs), Jim (62 yrs), Miyoka (58 yrs), Nobi (67 yrs), Elmer (72 yrs), Masako (62 yrs), Yukio (59 yrs), Kimi (50 yrs).
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Manzanar Free Press Vol. III No. 53 (July 3, 1943) (ddr-densho-125-145)
Selected article titles: "Gigantic Two-Day Carnival Slated for Fourth, Fifth" (p. 1), "Property Owners Contest Actions" (p. 1), "More Linguists Needed Soon" (p. 1), "Oberlin Praises Nisei Students" (p. 1), "Labor Union Adopts Resolution Supporting Relocation Program" (p. 1), "Elmer Shirrell Quells Rumors About Chicago" (p. 1).
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Obon Festival (ddr-one-1-256)
Black and white photographic negative of Nobuko (Ochiai) Susaki speaking with an unidentified white woman. Man seated in far back right identified as Elmer Nishimoto. Obon is an annual event hosted by the Oregon Buddhist Church (now known as Oregon Buddhist Temple) and attended by the wider Nikkei community.
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Yoshihara Collection (ddr-densho-332)
Yoshihara collection. Centers around George and Hisano Yoshihara whose son Elmer served in the U.S. Army during the occupation of Japan and was later killed in Korea. Elmer's fiance whom he met in Japan was later brought to the United States. Includes photographs and documents
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Letter from Elmer L. Shirrell, Relocation Supervisor, to George Hideo Nakamura, December 22, 1943 (ddr-csujad-55-2394)
Letter from Elmer L. Shirrell to George Hideo Nakamura regarding the form, "Request for Transportation of Property" Form WRA 156. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2500