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890 items
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Rocky Shimpo Vol. 11, No. 125 (October 18, 1944) (ddr-densho-148-58)
Selected article titles: "Farmers Decide Not to Sell Them Land"; "On the Other Hand"; "League's Education Program Under Way"; "Well Earned Furlough"; "Talks Scheduled"; "Speech Was Success in New York Cities"; "Want Ads"; "Ordnance Depot Job Promises Good Wages"; "McWilliams Slated to Talk About Evacuees"; "Bachelor Kills Self With Straight Razor"; "Bill of Rights for Soldiers …
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Charles Edison, Rear Admiral Clark H. Woodward, and Gov. William Wilkins Horton (ddr-njpa-1-249)
Caption on reverse [translation]: "Domei Photographic Overseas News November 25, 1937. Age of Military Expansion. (New York) Domei. New 10 million dollar battleships, said to be the US Navy's best ships, began construction at Brooklyn Navy Yard on October 27, Navy Day. Photograph: (from left) Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, Commandant of the Navy …
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Sasha Hohri Collection (ddr-densho-352)
The Sasha Horhi Collection is comprised of paper documents related to the activities of the East Coast Japanese Americans for Redress, the National Council for Japanese American Redress, and the Redress movement broadly. Among the documents are personal testimonies that were presented to the Congressional Commission on the Wartime Internment and Relocation of Civilians, planning documents …
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Postcard from Y.O. to Donald Miyagi, June 29, 1944 (ddr-csujad-55-2025)
Postcard from Y.O. to Donald Miyagi in the Poston incarceration camp depicting New York City. Includes a brief greeting from Y.O. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2128
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Sonja Henie (ddr-njpa-1-629)
Caption on reverse [translation]: "Domei Photographic Sports News February 25, 1937. Recent News of Sonja Henie. (New York) Domei. Photograph: Queen of the rink Sonja Henie presenting a celebratory bouquet to the President's mother at a great gala held here at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on January 30 to celebrate President Roosevelt's birthday."
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Letter from Tadashi Ishida to Mr. & Mrs. Y Ishida (ddr-densho-535-242)
Tad recounted watching prisoners butcher a euthanized horse and reflected on news reports about riots in New York and San Francisco and celebratory deaths of soldiers in Italy, after the war was ended; Tad requested magazines and socks. Parents' note on envelope back: 244 Tuesday Sept. 4, 1945 request for magazines and socks
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Letter to Yuri Tsukada from Richard Tsukada (ddr-densho-356-461)
Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from her husband Richard "Dick" Tsukada. Dick writes about his weekend in New York and contemplating changing his goal from finding a job in his field to finding another type of work. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-457 and ddr-densho-540.
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Letter to Yuri Tsukada from Tak Negi (ddr-densho-356-397)
Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Tak Nomi in which Tak writes about her life in New York City, how she celebrated the holidays, plans for a 10 year college reunion, and thanks for the wedding portrait. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-321 and ddr-densho-356-413.
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Letter to Yuri Tsukada from Tak Negi (ddr-densho-356-529)
Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Tak Negi in which Tak writes asking in Yuri will be visit New York next week or if Yuri would be free enough to host Tak in Boston for a few days. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-457 and ddr-densho-540.
Narrator Sachi Kaneshiro
Nisei female. Born January 1, 1920, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in Covina, California. Worked for the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA). Volunteered to go early to Poston concentration camp, Arizona, to help set up the camp. Eventually transferred to Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming, before leaving for New York. Eventually pursued a career in …
Narrator Chiyoko Chiyo Omachi
Nisei female. Born July 12, 1926, in Terminal Island, California. Grew up on Terminal Island where father worked as a ship builder. During World War II, removed to the Poston concentration camp, Arizona. Left camp and lived in Pennsylvania with relatives before attending college in New York. Family resettled in Chicago, Illinois, after the war, where …
Narrator May Ohmura Watanabe
Nisei female. Born May 13, 1922, in Chico, California. Grew up in Chico, where parents ran a produce store. Was in college when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, and was removed with her family to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Left camp to attend school in Syracuse, New York, and become a public health nurse. Later …
Narrator Jessie Hatsue Akiyama Okazaki Harry
Nisei female. Born October 24, 1925, in Parkdale, Oregon. Grew up in Parkdale, where parents ran a farm. During World War II, removed to the Pinedale Assembly Center, California, and the Tule Lake concentration camp, California, before transferring with family to the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Left camp to attend sewing school in New York before …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 35 No. 3 (July 19, 1952) (ddr-pc-24-29)
Selected article titles: "American Newspaper Guild Asks Papers to Stop Using Word 'Jap' in Stories, Heads" (p. 1), "Member of New York Guild Initiates Drive on Word 'Jap'" (p. 1), "Truman Signs Bill Restoring Seniority Lost in Wartime By Civil Service Nisei" (p. 3), "Start $25 Thousand Campaign For Shonien Child Care Center" (p. 3).
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Rocky Shimpo Vol. 11, No. 103 (August 28, 1944) (ddr-densho-148-38)
Selected article titles: "On the Other Hand"; "Damages Extensive"; "Refute Charge by Paper, Chieftain"; "Solicitor Blocks Fund from Scholarship Use"; "Warning Given on Draft Evasion"; "Tashirogi, Oyama Win"; "League Tax Status Set"; "More Evacuees Settle in New York Area"; "Potential Menace Still Existing"; "Want Ads"; "Nisei GI's Training in Fresno, California"; "Concealed"; "War Casualties."
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Rocky Shimpo Vol. 12, No. 67 (June 4, 1945) (ddr-densho-148-156)
Selected article titles: "Nisei and Unions"; "Bears Lose First Major Encounter"; "Tri-State YBA Send Flowers to Nisei Dead"; "New York WLB Praise Nisei Employees"; "NWAA Softball Gets Start"; "300 Seasonal Workers for Vegetable Sheds"; "Bears Fete Min Sano"; "'Only a Shotgun' Used on Nisei"; "Farmers Urged to Plant Many Late Crops"; "Want Ads Today."
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Gidra, Vol. V, No. 10 (October 1973) (ddr-densho-297-54)
Selected article titles: "Rallying behind the Workshop" (p. 1), "Reviewed: Candidates Night at LVU/UN-ISA" (p. 6), "New York Chinatown: August 1973" (p. 8), "The Trip to Chino: 'We Left the Prison a Little Depressed . . .'" (p. 10), "Closing Time: a Tale of Sex, Drugs, and Violence in the Asian American Community" (p. 14).
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Minoru Endo Interview (ddr-phljacl-1-9)
Nisei male. Born February 14, 1917, in San Francisco, California. Grew up in San Francisco and attended the University of California at Berkeley. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed to the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, and the Topaz concentration camp, Utah. Served in the Military Intelligence Service. After the war, resettled in New York.
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Postcard from Yoshio to Donald Miyagi, May 29, 1944 (ddr-csujad-55-2034)
Postcard from Yoshio to Donald Miyagi in the Poston incarceration camp depicting Times Square in New York City. Includes a brief greeting from Yoshio. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2137
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Letter from Tadashi Ishida to Mr. & Mrs. Y Ishida (ddr-densho-535-148)
Check-in letter from New York City. Tad's letter isn't censored since it wasn't sent from camp, so he tells his parents where his camp is: Camp Shanks, around 20-30 miles from NYC. Tad thinks hell be sent overseas in one or two weeks. Parents' note on envelope back: 151 Saturday March 3, 1945
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Santa Anita Pacemaker Vol. I No. 19 (June 19, 1942) (ddr-densho-146-19)
Selected article titles: "First Checks to be Issued Tomorrow. 1200 Workers to Get Paid" (p. 1), "Amory Explains Camouflage Problems to Net Workers. Full Consideration Promised for Legitimate Grievances in Talk" (p. 1), "Cooperation on Sanitary Check-ups Lauded. Weekly Airings in Center Set" (p. 3), "Editorial: New York Nisei in USO Drive" (p. 6).
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Manuel L. Quezon riding in a parade car (ddr-njpa-1-1438)
Caption on reverse: "500,000 marchers demonstrate America's fighting spirit in nation's greatest parade. The United States of American flung down its gauntlet to the Axis with a grim, fighting 'New York at War' parade which outstripped any spectacle that famous city of spectacles has ever staged. It was a gigantic procession in which a cross section …
Narrator Dorothy Kuwaye
Nisei female. Born May 7, 1928, in Covina, California. At young age, suffered an accident in which she was hit by a car, and was raised by a non-Japanese American family. During World War II, rejoined biological family in the Pomona Assembly Center, California, and Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Lived for a time in New …
Narrator Tomiko Takeuchi
Sansei female. Born April 18, 1942, in Portland, Oregon. During World War II, moved as an infant with family to the Portland Assembly Center, Oregon, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. After leaving camp, family moved for a time to New York, then returned to Oregon. Tomiko's father created and edited the Minidoka Interlude while in …