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Letter from Issei man to wife (February 15, 1943) (ddr-densho-140-158)
Excerpt: "Thank God: The ruddy glow of the eastern sky is beautiful beyond description..."
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Letter from Issei man to wife (May 21, 1942) (ddr-densho-140-89)
Excerpt: "I recall to memory of Capital Hill often, special on decoration week. Did you asked someone to take care the grave as our proxy?"
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Postcard from Issei man to wife (May 7, 1942) (ddr-densho-140-82)
Excerpt: "How are you? This made full 5 months."
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Letter from Issei man to wife (February 11, 1943) (ddr-densho-140-156)
Excerpt: "I sent you the koishi koishi made flower basin to celebrate your birthday today."
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Letter from Issei man to wife (September 22, 1942) (ddr-densho-140-134)
Excerpt: "How are you since wrote me 11th? Am well and busy as usual."
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Letter from Issei man to wife (January 1, 1942) (ddr-densho-140-41)
Excerpt: "Happy New Year Dear - This is nice sunshine morning here. We listening radio news."
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Letter from Issei man to wife (May 28, 1942) (ddr-densho-140-96)
Excerpt: "Many thanks for your precious letter which you wrote on our commemoration day."
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Letter from Issei man to wife (March 1, 1943) (ddr-densho-140-164)
Excerpt: "I am leading a life of confinement here, but it is something over which we have no control."
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Mihara Collection (ddr-densho-140)
The Mihara Collection features photographs of the Mihara family as well as the personal correspondence written by Genji Mihara to his wife during his World War II imprisonment in various detention camps. Mihara, a prominent Issei leader of the Japanese American community, was arrested immediately following the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and …