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616 items
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Photograph of a bus for Japanese Baptist Church Center (ddr-csujad-55-2629)
A photograph of a bus for Japanese Baptist Church Center, Sacramento, California. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2793
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Beginning of the Japanese speaking church of Poston II (ddr-csujad-55-1871)
Essay on the founding of the Japanese-speaking Christian Church at Poston incarceration camp. Includes a black and white photograph of an individual writing calligraphy. From the Poston II Reunion Program. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1874
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Boy Scout Troop 53 of the Japanese Baptist Church (ddr-densho-353-364)
Captioned: "Taken in 1921. Troop 53 [was] organized in 1920 by Clarence Arai. Only eighteen, [he] could only be an assistant scoutmaster. Mr. Rex Strickland was scoutmaster for a while. Tr. 53 was the second troop of Japanese Americans in U.S."
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Christian church in Tule Lake (ddr-csujad-26-7)
Report on the majority Protestant Christian church at Tule Lake and the development of a community church which became known as "Tule Lake Union Church." The report describes church organization, leadership issues and changes, schedules, facilities, church-centered groups and activities, finances, languages and membership. Report compiled as a portion of the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement …
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Muneage ceremony (ddr-densho-38-6)
This building at 1427 South Main Street was the second location of the Seattle Buddhist Church. During the muneage ceremony, mochi (Japanese rice cakes) were thrown to church members from the scaffold.
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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"
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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.
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Group of women outside building (ddr-ajah-4-11)
Caption below photo: 1948 Issei Women at Japanese Methodist Episcopal, South Church, Alameda, CA. Individuals identified
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Women in costumes, performing a play (ddr-ajah-4-28)
Caption below photo: Stageplay at Japanese Methodist episcopal Church, South in Alameda, CA Circa late 1920s
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Letter from Ai Chih Tsai to John M. Mulder (ddr-densho-446-49)
Thank you for letter and for plan to establish Harrison Ray Anderson Professorship of Pastoral Ministry. Description of Ai Chih Tsai's work with Anderson.
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Heart Mountain Community Christian Church, vol. 1, no. 51 (March 5, 1944) (ddr-csujad-55-1604)
Newsletter of the Heart Mountain Community Christian Church covering a calendar of church events, camp visitors, church members who left camp, and schedules for junior church services and adult English services. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1606
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.
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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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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
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.