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doc Letter from John (Sohei) Hohri to Harold Landon (ddr-janm-18-6)

Letter from John (Sohei) Hohri to Harold Landon, dated April 24, 1942. Letter in pencil on unlined paper, written in all capital letters. First page consists of drawings: a gymnast upside down on the rings, an arm holding up the date like a plate of food, a sketch of a letter from Donald Lindsey with a …

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doc Copy of letter from Harold Cutler to Contractors License Board (ddr-densho-424-660)

Letter filing complaint against Daniel Sanderson for failure of work done for Takahashi Trading Company

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doc Copy of letter from Harold Cutler to Daniel Sanderson (ddr-densho-424-661)

Advising Sanderson of complaint filed by Takahashis for faulty work done at 1661 Post Street

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doc Record of school attendance at Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon for Keizaburo Koyama for the years 1917 - 1920 (ddr-one-5-183)

Photocopy of a declassified signed and notarized letter from Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon showing that Keizaburo Koyama attended high school there from September 1917 to June of 1920. He lived at 86 N. 10th Street at the time.

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doc The Newell Star, Extra (October 18, 1945) (ddr-densho-284-90)

Special publication including the articles "Ickes, Myer Say Tule Lake to Close on or Before Feb. 1, 1946" and "A Statement to the Residents of Tule Lake: Dillon S. Myer."

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img University of Washington pharmacy students (ddr-densho-383-11)

Classmates of George Tokuda. Back row, left to right: Thomas Young, Victor Seeberg, Harold Woodhead. Front frow, left to right: Ada Marckx, Clarence McRory, Marion Ostliff. Written on album page below photograph: "Pharmacy class, 1929-1933".

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Collection Sohei (John) Hohri and Harold Landon Letters Collection (ddr-janm-18)

This collection contains handwritten, illustrated letters sent from Sohei (John) Hohri while incarcerated at Manzanar in California to his friend, Harold Landon. The bulk of the documents are dated from 1941 to 1943. A few letters date from the postwar period, ranging from 1972 to 1982 and 1997 to 2011.

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doc Letters and form regarding items in storage (ddr-densho-430-83)

Letter to Kichio Allen Arai from Harold S. Fistere informing Arai that his property held in storage by the WRA must be removed by March 15 or it will be sold. Arai's draft reply to letter, and a completed WRA-155 form listing the property to transferred are included in the envelope. Objects ddr-densho-430-81 and ddr-densho-430-82 related.

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doc Letter from John (Sohei) Hohri to Harold Landon and Thelma Jo Bruce (ddr-janm-18-34)

Letter from John (Sohei) Hohri to Harold Landon & Thelma Jo Bruce, dated July 12, 1972. The envelope is addressed to Harold & Thelma Jo Landon in Granada Hills, CA from John Sohei Hohri in New York. Along the bottom is a drawing of a ship passing under a bridge with tall city buildings on the …

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doc New Camp for Bad Japs (April 28, 1944) (ddr-densho-56-1039)

The Seattle Daily Times, April 28, 1944, p. 17

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doc Memo Re: General DeWitt's report on the Japanese evacuation (ddr-densho-67-75)

Memo from Francis Biddle to Harold Ickes on DeWitt's Final Report. Biddle informs Ickes that parts of DeWitt's report have been refuted by the Federal Communications Commission. Suggests that the information the government received about ship-to-shore signaling and other sabotage was inaccurate.

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doc U.S. Won't Be Bestial With Jap Americans, Says Ickes (April 13, 1944) (ddr-densho-56-1036)

The Seattle Daily Times, April 13, 1944, p. 1

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doc Ickes 'Beat' Supreme Court On Jap Orders (December 21, 1944) (ddr-densho-56-1087)

The Seattle Daily Times, December 21, 1944, p. 5

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doc 2 Japanese Held In Railway Bridge Fires (March 31, 1942) (ddr-densho-56-734)

The Seattle Daily Times, March 31, 1942, p. 4

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Narrator Harold "Hal" Champeness

White male. Born in 1923. Grew up on Bainbridge Island, Washington. Joined the navy during World War II and eventually returned to Bainbridge.

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doc California's opportunity for low rent housing and sum clearance (ddr-densho-433-263)

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doc L.A. Defense Council Seek Japs' Removal (February 10, 1942) (ddr-densho-56-614)

The Seattle Daily Times, February 10, 1942, p. 10

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doc Parole memorandum (ddr-densho-314-5)

This memorandum gives the date that Kazuichi Takanishi was paroled from the Santa Fe Justice Department internment camp. It also states that his address is unknown since a sponsor was not identified for Takanishi before he left camp. He was paroled to Chicago, Illinois.

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doc Letter from John (Sohei) Hohri to Harold Landon and Thelma Jo Bruce (ddr-janm-18-26)

Letter from Sohei (John) Hohri to Harold Landon & Thelma Jo Bruce, dated May 4, 2004. The envelope is addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Landon in Granada Hills, CA from Sohei Hohri in New York, NY. Sohei mostly writes to Thelma Jo to discuss her condition of atrial fibrillation, and mentions that he has been …

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img W. Harold Loper signing a document with a Veterans' Administration leader (ddr-njpa-2-628)

Caption on reverse: "FARM TRAINING CONTRACT SIGNED: Dr. W. Harold Loper, right, superintendent of the department of public instruction, representing the territorial board for vocational education, and Mark H. Philips, acting director of the Veterans' Administration's vocational rehabilitation and education division, are shown as they signed contract Tuesday providing an extensive full-time institutional and on-the-farm training …

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img University of Washington students and faculty (ddr-densho-383-203)

Back row, left to right: Robert Glase, Dr. Henry August Langenhan, Victor Seeberg, Harold Woodhead, George Tokuda. Front row, left to right: Charles Owen Wilson Jr., Theodore Backstrom, Thomas Young, and Clarence McRory. Written on album page below photograph: "Glase, Langenhan, Seeberg, Woodhead, [Tokuda], Wilson, Backstrom, Young, McRory 1932".

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doc Greedy Seek To Keep Nisei Away, Says Ickes (April 4, 1945) (ddr-densho-56-1111)

The Seattle Daily Times, April 4, 1945, p. 7

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img Sears executive giving a check to a University of Hawaii dean (ddr-njpa-2-1010)

Caption on reverse: "SEARS HELPS TH AGRICULTURE: One of the many ways through which Sears-Roebuck Foundation has been contributing to the betterment of Hawaii is the annual $2,000 scholarship award for students in diversified agriculture at the University of Hawaii. Morely L. Theaker (left), Sears territorial manager, is pictured presenting the check to Prof. Harold A. …

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doc AC Transit new labor contract (ddr-densho-433-270)

A memorandum about the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit's new labor contract. A second copy has handwritten notes.

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doc Letter from John (Sohei) Hohri to Harold Landon and Thelma Jo Bruce (ddr-janm-18-30)

Letter from Sohei (John) Hohri to Harold Landon & Thelma Jo, dated July 20, 2001. Sohei writes about the surprise of receiving a phone call from Joann, and tells Harold that enclosed with the letter are answers to questions from school children and National Park Service staff. He refers to documentaries and films in development on …

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