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vh Fumiko M. Noji Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-72-2)

Father's arrival in United States, working in a lumber camp

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vh Fumiko M. Noji Segment 28 (ddr-densho-1000-72-28)

Preparing children for mass removal

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vh Fumiko M. Noji Segment 40 (ddr-densho-1000-72-40)

Description of great grandchildren

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img Three women standing by car (ddr-densho-466-212)

Caption to right of photo on album page: Rose, Shiz,Betty

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img Boys playing on swings (ddr-ajah-6-740)

Caption below photo: Nisei boys play on a swing in Alameda, CA., circa 1910-1930s. The white house in the background is 2327 Buena Vista Avenue. A few years after World War II ended, it would become the home of Bill Takeda and Nellie Itahara.

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img Family birthday party (ddr-densho-359-215)

A group photograph at Don Nakata's 4th birtday party. Pictured from back to front and left to right: Nobuko Hayashida, Yasuko Hayashida, Shigeko Kitamoto, Hideko Kitamoto, Pauline Nakata, Fumiko Hayashida, Miyeko Nishi, Alice Kawamoto, Hisako Hayashida, Kenji Nakata, Yuriko Kitamoto, Tomiko Hayashida, Bobby Nishi

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img A group hiking (ddr-densho-296-204)

Caption in album: "Pop Mom Fumi Hiraiwa Hamada / 1949."

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img Four women (ddr-densho-468-471)

Black and white photo of four women. In the back is Fumiko Nakai. Middle row left to right: Yaeko Ishikawa and Kikuyo (Ishikawa) Nakai. In the front is Michiko Nakai. Caption on album page above and below photo "Fumi, Mrs. N., Yaeko I, Michiyo" written in white pencil.

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doc Card to Kaneji Domoto announcing the engagement of Fumiko Obota and Hirosuke Inouye (ddr-densho-329-206)

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Narrator Fumiko M. Noji

Nisei female. Born October 13, 1909, in Bellingham, Washington. Lost her United States citizenship when she married an Issei through an arranged marriage. Before 1920, her husband's family established Columbia Greenhouse, one of the first Japanese American-owned greenhouse businesses. Incarcerated at Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Husband was held by the …

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Narrator Fumiko Uyeda Groves

Nisei female. Born September 9, 1933, in Seattle, Washington. Parents operated a store in the Sanitary Market (now known as the Pike Place Market). Father was very active in kenjinkai (prefectural organization) activities, both before and after World War II. Spent prewar childhood in and among Seattle's Japanese American community. Incarcerated at the Puyallup Assembly Center, …

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doc Certificate of Promotion from Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church, South for Fumiko Itahara (ddr-ajah-6-519)

Caption below image: Certificate of Promotion for Fumiko "Nellie" Itahara of Alameda, CA. She was promoted from the Senior department to the Bible department by Haruo Imura on September 14, 1930. Torao Miki was the superintendent of the Sunday School at the Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church, South in Alameda.

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img Portrait of Shizuki Itahara and unidentified boy (ddr-ajah-6-506)

Caption below photo: At left is Shizuka Itahara, first born child of Yoshio Itahara and Hama Komatsu. He remained in Hiroshima, Japan when is parents immigrated to Alameda, CA., in 1902. Shizuka's American born sister (1914) was Fumiko "Nellie" Itahara. Younger boy is unknown. Photo taken in Hiroshima, Japan, circa 1920s

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img Kakutani, Urakawa, and Takenaga Extended Family (ddr-densho-474-152)

Front Row - Left to Right: Clara Jane Sanaye Urakawa, Starr Miyeko Urakawa, Masaye Kakutani Urakawa, Naka Miyamoto Kakutani, Yu Ishida Kakutani, and Owen Masami Takenaga. Back Row - Left to Right: Marianne Hazumi Urakawa, Yoshio Urakawa, Elsie Fumiko Urakawa, Tomizo Takenaga, Emiko Takenaga, Juzo Kakutani, Richard Toshiyuki Takenaga and Marion Takako Takenaga

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img Portrait of two women with children (ddr-ajah-6-500)

Caption below photo: L to R: Mrs. Nagayama, unknown, Hama Itahara and baby Nellie Itahara. Alameda, CA. Nellie was born in Alameda on January 10, 1914, photo July 1914.

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doc Seattle Chapter, JACL Reporter, Vol. 41, No. 11, November 2004 (ddr-sjacl-1-523)

Newsletter covering the following topics: Teacher?s Workshop featuring Mako Nakagawa, Tom Ikeda, Alan Yabui, Karen Yoshitomi, Pramila Jayapal, and a panel of Dr. Frank Kitamoto, Fumiko Hayashida, May Namba, Devon Abdullah, and Amelia Derr; 2005 Installation, January 22, 2005, Seattle Waterfront, $60, Keynote-Peggy Nagae; Board to carol at Nikkei Manor.

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img The Yamashita Family (ddr-densho-296-201)

Caption in album: "Pop Eiichi Mom Me Fumi / Park in Tacoma / 1949."

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img The Yamashita Family (ddr-densho-296-212)

April 25, 1950 (written on back).

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img Two women and child at Golden Gate International Exposition (ddr-ajah-6-536)

Caption below photo: Toshiko "May" Yeda (left), her mother, Harumi, and friend Fumiko "Nellie" Itahara stroll around the Golden Gate International Exposition of 1939, San Francisco's third and last World's Fair. It was also the year that Nazi Germany invaded Europe. Among the items they may have noticed at the World's Fair was the German swastika …

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vh Fumi Hayashi Interview (ddr-manz-1-70)

Nisei female. Born January 24, 1925, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in the Los Angeles area, where parents ran a flower business. During World War II, removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. While in camp, held various jobs, including working for the camouflage net factory. Eventually returned to California.

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doc Chapter 11 personality cards (ddr-csujad-26-36)

Journal entries written by high school students discussing their observations and perspectives on a variety of topic including a fundraising carnival, yearbooks, class subjects and discussions, sports, homework, books, and teachers. Each entry includes the full date and student name. The entries were collected as part of a class assignment and used for the Japanese American …

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vh Fumi Kaseguma Interview (ddr-densho-1000-203)

Nisei female. Born April 20, 1924, in Portland, Oregon. Spent one summer in Japan just before the onset of war between the U.S. and Japan. Incarcerated at the Portland Assembly Center, Oregon, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Left camp as part of the National Youth Administration, and worked in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Chicago, …

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img Document with photo and biographical information titled "Role Reversal" (ddr-ajah-6-495)

Caption below photo: Yoshio Itahara and his wife, Hama Komatsu, shortly after arriving in Alameda, CA., from Hiroshima, Japan, in 1902. Photo by Mataichi Ozeki, the best of the Issei photographers in Alameda at the time.

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doc Campus affairs; America at war (ddr-csujad-55-2516)

Two pages from an issue of the Pony Express vol. 35, no. 12 (December 12, 1941), "America's first college magazine." Clipping includes articles on the war, Japanese Americans in college, and singer Fumiko Yabe. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2622

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doc [ Letter to Mrs. Whitney from Louise Fukuda, June 7, 1942 ] (ddr-janm-22-10)

2-page handwritten letter written on recto and verso from Louise Fukuda to Mrs. Whitney on June 7, 1942. Louise writes about how pleased she was to receive a response from Mrs. Whitney about what is happening back home and was not expecting answers to her previous letter, how terrible the weather is, and requests for Fumiko …

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