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591 items
![Kotzebue Friends Church established 1897 (ddr-csujad-57-1)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/a6/c3/a6c389bc08683ab30d421b3a30e55c73.jpg)
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Kotzebue Friends Church established 1897 (ddr-csujad-57-1)
A group of children stand before a church, wearing warm winter clothes. In front of the church is a bell tower. The Kotzebue Friends Church, of Kotzebue, Alaska, was established as a mission of the First Friends Church, of Whittier, California. [Sign above church door] KOTZEBUE / FRIENDS CHURCH / ESTABLISHED 1897 [Verso:] [Stamped] Harry Haworth …
![Whittier Public Library First Friends Church Photographs and Records (ddr-csujad-57)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/a6/c3/a6c389bc08683ab30d421b3a30e55c73.jpg)
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Whittier Public Library First Friends Church Photographs and Records (ddr-csujad-57)
The collection consists of images and documents from its establishment in 1887 to the mid-20th century. Also included are images and documents of two missions of Whittier's First Friends Church: the Kotzebue Friends Church, in Kotzebue, Alaska; and the Friends Japanese Church in Norwalk, formerly located near the intersection of Orange Street and Rosecrans Avenue.
![Group photo of men, women and children outside building (ddr-ajah-4-10)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/c5/45/c545693b6cf3998dd3fb83f1b78457c5.jpg)
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Group photo of men, women and children outside building (ddr-ajah-4-10)
Caption below photo: Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church, south Fujinkai (women's society), Alameda, CA. Front row center is Rev. Alura (lighter suit) and Rev. Shimada. These young mothers were the backbone of the church. 1932
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Narrator Chester Earls
White male. Born in Spokane, Washington. Served as pastor of the First Methodist Church in Portland, Oregon, with a mainly Japanese American congregation, for thirteen years in the 1960s and '70s.
![Emery Brooks Andrews Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-155-9)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/c7/48/c748bbbb7b72638fad06f11471b8c9ea.jpg)
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Emery Brooks Andrews Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-155-9)
First Sunday after mass removal: father is left with an empty church; memories of visiting Japanese American friends through the barbed wire at "Camp Harmony"
![Group of adults and children posing for photo outside building (ddr-ajah-4-37)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/f0/80/f080ac87602592373e32d1111751eca5.jpg)
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Group of adults and children posing for photo outside building (ddr-ajah-4-37)
Caption below photo: Early Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church, South, adults, children and minister, Alameda, CA, circa 1911
![Bus headed to summer camp (ddr-densho-336-297)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/b4/79/b479bf18687c98a83fcd9c08972266d6.jpg)
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Bus headed to summer camp (ddr-densho-336-297)
The 1970s Lake Sequoia Retreat summer camps. The bus left from the Japanese Congregational Church in Fresno, California.
![Bus headed to summer camp (ddr-densho-336-296)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/29/ee/29ee9881c0424d167f3fd9e65a0fd68d.jpg)
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Bus headed to summer camp (ddr-densho-336-296)
The 1970s Lake Sequoia Retreat summer camps. The bus left from the Japanese Congregational Church in Fresno, California.
![Scenery from a bus headed to summer camp (ddr-densho-336-300)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/04/90/049048045e38cab1f3f0a1f7b15eab0c.jpg)
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Scenery from a bus headed to summer camp (ddr-densho-336-300)
The 1970s Lake Sequoia Retreat summer camps. The bus left from the Japanese Congregational Church in Fresno, California.
![Scenery from a bus headed to summer camp (ddr-densho-336-298)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/aa/cd/aacd3e32b1b08ebf100e4a9b0a62f42d.jpg)
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Scenery from a bus headed to summer camp (ddr-densho-336-298)
The 1970s Lake Sequoia Retreat summer camps. The bus left from the Japanese Congregational Church in Fresno, California.
![Scenery from a bus headed to summer camp (ddr-densho-336-299)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/dc/2c/dc2c5295ea1ba9846b755eb41632ac42.jpg)
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Scenery from a bus headed to summer camp (ddr-densho-336-299)
The 1970s Lake Sequoia Retreat summer camps. The bus left from the Japanese Congregational Church in Fresno, California.
![Group of women on steps of church (ddr-ajah-4-59)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/1c/16/1c164ce338aedd4473a1c7e4d8574e33.jpg)
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Group of women on steps of church (ddr-ajah-4-59)
Caption below photo: Fujinkai Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Alameda, CA., circa 1952. Duplicate photo with names identified
![Letter from Robert Cashman to Ai Chih Tsai (ddr-densho-446-15)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/bf/e9/bfe9e3267ff4c41d897119f723b0066e.jpg)
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Letter from Robert Cashman to Ai Chih Tsai (ddr-densho-446-15)
Letter of apology and reaffirmation of friendship after an apparent conflict between ACS and RC. RC urges ACS to practice self-preservation while U.S. and Japan are at war.
![Church Women Ask: How Can We Help Japanese American evacuees (ddr-csujad-18-6)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/55/e3/55e3f36a2c435a5cede5ba9c4321338d.jpg)
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Church Women Ask: How Can We Help Japanese American evacuees (ddr-csujad-18-6)
Suggestions for church women on how to help Japanese Americans who are forced to evacuate. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: RSG_01-02
![Patti Oji and Ed Shiba at the Japanese Congregational Church (ddr-densho-336-261)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/10/8e/108ef090d97276f7a56f216a5cb025dd.jpg)
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Patti Oji and Ed Shiba at the Japanese Congregational Church (ddr-densho-336-261)
The 1970 Lake Sequoia Retreat summer camp.
![Photo of original building for the Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church (ddr-ajah-4-43)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/78/5f/785f0fdde88037f600d06a491cc5e167.jpg)
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Photo of original building for the Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church (ddr-ajah-4-43)
2416 Eagle Street, Alameda
![Photo of original building for the Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church (ddr-ajah-4-42)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/b9/f7/b9f7e02725a4551ffce6b3a1b9a69f98.jpg)
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Photo of original building for the Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church (ddr-ajah-4-42)
2416 Eagle Street, Alameda
![Photo of original building for the Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church (ddr-ajah-4-44)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/16/49/1649960aff4572a5f96289c97ba2a790.jpg)
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Photo of original building for the Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church (ddr-ajah-4-44)
2416 Eagle Street, Alameda
![Photograph of a bus for First Japanese Baptist Church, Kindergarten (ddr-csujad-55-2630)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/7b/61/7b61d4447b352fbab4312eaa9ef1e970.jpg)
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Photograph of a bus for First Japanese Baptist Church, Kindergarten (ddr-csujad-55-2630)
Photograph of a bus for First Japanese Baptist Church, Kindergarten. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2794
![Kotzebue Friends Church church service (ddr-csujad-57-2)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/87/b2/87b2232b41c28ac3b408cf8101be0d5f.jpg)
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Kotzebue Friends Church church service (ddr-csujad-57-2)
Interior view of the Kotzebue Friends Church, of Kotzebue, Alaska. Children and adults sit in pews, wearing warm winter clothing. This church was established as a mission of the First Friends Church, of Whittier, California. Verso: [Stamped] Harry Haworth Photography / P. O. Box 575 - Altadena, California. [Handwritten] Kotzebue Friends Church Church Service [Handwritten] #597. …
![Letter from John M. Mulder to Ai Chih Tsai (ddr-densho-446-48)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/2f/04/2f0474ce071423e039c4ee847e6e6810.jpg)
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Letter from John M. Mulder to Ai Chih Tsai (ddr-densho-446-48)
Son of John Mulder of 4th Presbyterian, interested in researching 1940s history. Requests ACH to write to him about this period. Mulder is establishing a professorship in honor of Dr. Harrison Ray Anderson.