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Wedding cake topper (ddr-densho-493-1)
Cake topper is from Frances (Itabashi) Nishimura wedding in camp.
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Frances (Itabashi) Nishimura and Shizuo Nishimura wedding announcement (ddr-densho-493-26)
Printed wedding announcement card. Text reads: "Mr. and Mrs. Buichiro Itabashi / announce the marriage of their daughter / Frances Masako / to / Mr. Shizuo Nishimura / on Saturday, the nineteenth day of June / Nineteen hundred and forty-three / Newell, California"
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Frances (Itabashi) Nishimura c. 1935 (ddr-densho-493-22)
Portrait of Frances (Itabashi) Nishimura in board frame. Stamp in corner reads "1935 HS Auburn Trojans". Marked on lower right "Melin - Auburn"
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Two women on porch (ddr-densho-493-67)
Caption on page: Shig & I Aug 1944 Frances (Itabashi) Nishimura with an unidentified friend
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Two women on porch (ddr-densho-493-66)
Caption on page: Shig & I Aug 1944 Frances (Itabashi) Nishimura with an unidentified friend
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Group of five women and a man on steps of Farm Division Building (ddr-densho-493-68)
Caption below photo: Property Warehouse Gang Oct. 1944 Frances (Itabashi) Nishimura poses with her friends.
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Mess Pass (ddr-densho-493-25)
Amache "workers mess" meal pass for Frances (Itabashi) Nishimura, stamped by the Property Officer and the Project Steward.
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Two people at a picnic with barracks in background (ddr-densho-493-63)
Caption below photo: May 1944 12E Picnic Amache The woman whose face can be seen is Frances (Itabashi) Nishimura.
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Group leaning on railing (ddr-densho-493-78)
Per donor note on page 29: Amache Warehouse workers at a picnic The woman in front of the group is Frances (Itabashi) Nishimura.
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Woman standing with barracks in background (ddr-densho-493-73)
Caption on page below photos: Jan. 7, 1945 Frances (Itabashi) Nisimura poses in front of barracks.
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Portrait of woman (ddr-densho-493-123)
Inscription on photo front: To Frenchie With love, always Tadako.
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Letter to Frances (Itabashi) Nishimura from Mary Sakai (ddr-densho-493-24)
Letter from Mary Sakai thanking Frances for her modeling and the use of her clothing in a fashion show at Tule Lake. "Dear Frances, Your splendid cooperation in our successful fashion parade was very deeply appreciated by me and my fellow committee members. Thank you kindly for lending us your lovely collections, and I hope everything …
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Shizuo "Nish" and Frances Nishimura standing in doorway of barracks (ddr-densho-493-47)
Caption on page: Barrack 12 E 7 Amache Colorado
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Letter to Frances (Itabashi) Nishimura from Dr. Willard Van Hazel (ddr-densho-493-19)
Letter to Frances from Dr. Van Hazel, who tried and failed to save Tomio’s life before he died of the tuberculosis that he contracted while at camp. "Tomio never held any resentment toward our government for having developed tuberculosis or having lost anything because of the war conditions. He told me that he was only glad …
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Portrait of woman in hat (ddr-densho-493-193)
Inscription on photo front: To Francis Itabashi Sincerely May Tsurusaki Aug 17 [?]
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Shiz (Hamatani) Sugioka and Frances (Itabashi) Nakamura (ddr-densho-493-85)
Per donor note on page 29: Amache Warehouse workers at a picnic
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Autograph board (ddr-densho-493-2)
Varnished wooden board. Front side features an image either burned or painted into it of two barracks, a road a watch tower, and a mountain in the distance with a cross on it, as well as about 40 signed messages of blessing and well wishes. Possibly created at the 1943 wedding of Frances (Itabashi) Nishimura and …
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Portrait of woman (ddr-densho-493-192)
Inscription on photo front: To my dear old pal, Frenchie. Most Loving May
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Portrait of Mae Tsurusaki (ddr-densho-493-131)
Inscription on photo front: Sincerely M [Fujiye] Tsurusaki. Written on inside folder cover: to Frances Itabashi
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Tomio Itabashi with his aunt Kuni Itabashi (ddr-densho-493-43)
Caption below photo: Kuni 1965 - adopted by Frances. Caption at top of page: 12 F 10 F Amache Barracks
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Tomio Itabashi and Frances (Itabashi) Nishimura Collection (ddr-densho-493)
This collection consists of objects, documents, photographs, and pamphlets from the Itabashi family, siblings Tomio Itabashi and Frances Nishimura (Itabashi) and their aunt and uncle, Kuni and Buichiro Itabashi. The family lived in Auburn, Washington prior to the war, where they operated a dairy farming business and were involved in a Supreme Court of Washington State …
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Group of men and women outside building (ddr-densho-493-54)
Caption on page next to photo: Warehouse gang. Some individuals identified
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