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4-H Week observance (ddr-njpa-5-1127)
img 4-H Week observance (ddr-njpa-5-1127)
Caption on reverse: "National 4-H Week - Calling attention to this week's observance of National 4-H Club Week in the islands as they display a 4-H banner motto are Gov. Quinn and Y. Baron Goto, director of the agricultural extension service. The 4-H program was begun in Hawaii some 30 years ago and today has approximately …
Photograph of Echo Goto leaning on a car at Manzanar (ddr-csujad-47-263)
img Photograph of Echo Goto leaning on a car at Manzanar (ddr-csujad-47-263)
Photograph of Echo Goto leaning on car at Manzanar incarceration camp. The woman is wearing a skirt suit and white gloves. Behind the car a utility pole is visible. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ecm_merritt_0411
Bukkyo Fujinkai members eating (ddr-densho-38-12)
img Bukkyo Fujinkai members eating (ddr-densho-38-12)
Issei members of the Bukkyo Fujinkai (Buddhist Women's Association) eating a meal in the Seattle Buddhist Temple kitchen. Seated (left to right): Cho Goto, Hanako Sao, Kikue Takahashi (behind Sao), unidentified, Taka Toshi, unidentified, Sasae Watanabe, unidentified, Kikue Hirata, Rieko Shimizu, and Fuiko Nakano. Standing: unidentified (back to camera), Kikuyo Tsuye, and unidentified.
A grassland expert receives an award (ddr-njpa-2-735)
img A grassland expert receives an award (ddr-njpa-2-735)
Caption on reverse: "GRASSLAND AWARD WINNER: Recognition of his accomplishment with grassland improvement on Maui for 1952 was given recently to Frank Thomas Murphy (left), former county agent by the National Fertilizer Association of Washington, D.C. An engraved silver plaque symbolic of his outstanding achievement in grassland farming was presented to Murphy by associate extension director …
Ben Uyeno Interview (ddr-densho-1000-100)
vh Ben Uyeno Interview (ddr-densho-1000-100)
Nisei male. Born November 30, 1918, in Yakima, Washington. Spent two years of childhood in Japan. Returned to Seattle and became an active participant in Japanese American community life. Was attending the University of Washington when World War II started. Avoided incarceration with the help of the Friends (a Quaker organization), which hid him and helped …
Sarah Sato Interview (ddr-densho-1000-81)
vh Sarah Sato Interview (ddr-densho-1000-81)
Sansei female. (Mother and father born in Hawaii.) Born February 1925 in Peru. Spent prewar childhood in Peru and Hawaii. Father picked up by the FBI and detained after bombing of Pearl Harbor. Was incarcerated at Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas, and Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Renounced citizenship in order to stay with parents, and was …
Young people's church gathering (ddr-densho-259-282)
img Young people's church gathering (ddr-densho-259-282)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "Some sort of young Nisei gathering taken in front of the Hood River Riverside Church, a Congregational church Since both the Reverends Lester Bond, the then-pastor at Riverside, and Taro Goto are shown, I figure that this was some sort of a young peoples' church gathering, mostly likely a YPCC [Young People's …
Article regarding Theodore Richards and dedication of the Friend Peace House in Kyoto (ddr-njpa-2-1103)
img Article regarding Theodore Richards and dedication of the Friend Peace House in Kyoto (ddr-njpa-2-1103)
Article title: "Four-Day Friend Peace Program Is Held At Doshisha"; Article sub-heading: "25th Year of Scholarship and Dedication of House Celebrated"
Nobu Suzuki Interview I (ddr-densho-1000-84)
vh Nobu Suzuki Interview I (ddr-densho-1000-84)
Nisei female. Born November 25, 1909, in Seattle, Washington. Father established one of the largest oyster companies in the United States prior to World War II. Graduated from Garfield High School, the University of Washington, and then the Pacific School of Religion where she earned a master's degree in religious education. At the outbreak of WWII, …
Asano Terao Interview I (ddr-densho-1000-108)
vh Asano Terao Interview I (ddr-densho-1000-108)
Issei female. Born 1897 in Hiroshima, Japan. Graduated from Shintoku Jikka Girls' High School. Married Mr. Shizuto Terao, an Issei who returned to Japan temporarily from the U.S., through an arranged marriage, and immigrated to the U.S. Lived in Seattle until they moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, to stay with her cousin in the spring …
Asano Terao Interview II (ddr-densho-1000-109)
vh Asano Terao Interview II (ddr-densho-1000-109)
Issei female. Born 1897 in Hiroshima, Japan. Graduated from Shintoku Jikka Girls' High School. Married Mr. Shizuto Terao, an Issei who returned to Japan temporarily from the U.S., through an arranged marriage, and immigrated to the U.S. Lived in Seattle until they moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, to stay with her cousin in the spring …
Nobu Suzuki Interview II (ddr-densho-1000-87)
vh Nobu Suzuki Interview II (ddr-densho-1000-87)
Nisei female. Born November 25, 1909, in Seattle, Washington. Father established one of the largest oyster companies in the United States prior to World War II. Graduated from Garfield High School, the University of Washington, and then the Pacific School of Religion where she earned a master's degree in religious education. At the outbreak of WWII, …
Japanese Boy Scout leader with Honolulu Boy Scout leaders (ddr-njpa-4-809)
img Japanese Boy Scout leader with Honolulu Boy Scout leaders (ddr-njpa-4-809)
Caption on reverse: "JAPAN SCOUT LEADER VISITS HERE: Eagle Scout Arthur K. Goto of Honolulu's Explorer Post 82 is shown wishing Count Yorihiro Matsudaira, president of the Boy Scouts Council of Kagawa prefecture, Japan, godspeed as he left aboard a Pan American plane for Tokyo following a two-day visit in Honolulu a week ago last Saturday, …
George Fugami Interview (ddr-densho-1000-7)
vh George Fugami Interview (ddr-densho-1000-7)
Kibei male. Born August 1, 1915, in Portland, Oregon. Sent with siblings to be educated in Japan when ten years old. Returned to the United States in 1935. During World War II, was incarcerated at the Portland Assembly Center, Oregon, and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Active in Seattle's postwar Japanese American community as a member and …
Fumiko M. Noji Interview (ddr-densho-1000-72)
vh Fumiko M. Noji Interview (ddr-densho-1000-72)
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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