Original WRA caption: Gila River Relocation Center, Rivers, Arizona. Mrs. Yamamoto, former P.T.A. president from San Francisco, and now hear of the Canal Women's Club, presents Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt with a bouquet of flowers.

Original WRA caption: Gila River Relocation Center, Rivers, Arizona. Mrs. Yamamoto, former P.T.A. president from San Francisco, and now hear of the Canal Women's Club, presents Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt with a bouquet of flowers.

Original WRA caption: Gila River Relocation Center, Rivers, Arizona. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, accompanied by Dillon Myer, National Director of the War Relocation Authority, visit the Gila River Relocation Center, where they were greeted by crowds of enthusiastic evacuees.

Caption on reverse: "The Queen of the Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington: Miss Eleanor Roosevelt, daughter of Colonel Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Roosevelt, chosen to preside at the Annual Festival of the Japanese Cherry Trees in the capital. Harris & Ewing from Times World Wide Photos.)"

Handwritten and illustrated Christmas card addressed to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_00037

Larry Tajiri discusses the proof of an article by Eddie Shimano called "Blueprint for a Slum" about the problems inside the camps. Also discussed is Larry's meeting with Eleanor Roosevelt.

The Seattle Daily Times, April 27, 1943, p. 1

Selected article titles: "Sanitation: Rules Given" (p. 1), "May Apply for Seized Articles" (p. 1), "Youths: 3 Sentenced" (p. 1), "Japanese Resettlers Featured by News" (p. 3), "Segregation of Japanese Starts" (p. 3), "Curfew Law: Court Decision" (p. 3), "Eleanor Roosevelt is Criticized" (p. 8), "Manzanar Votes Down Beer Sale" (p. 8).

Selected article titles: "Eleanor Roosevelt and the Nisei" (p.1), "Washington State JACLers Gain Politically Despite Rebuff" (p.1), "Amendments to Wash. Anti-Bias Housing Law Set" (p.1), "Inouye Radiant, Matsunaga Nonchalant in Win" (p.1-2), "Prejudice Still Persists" (p.2), "WW2 Claims Bill Signed by President, but Appropriations Lacking to Administer Bill" (p.3).

Selected article titles: "Supreme Court Upholds Nisei Citizenship" (p. 1), "WRA Centers Recognized As Mistake, Says Myer; Relocation to be Speeded" (p. 1), "Nisei Soldier is Reported War Prisoner of Japanese" (p. 1), "No Race is 'Unassimilable' Says Vancouver Columnist" (p. 2), "Conference on Resettlement Convened in New York City" (p. 3), "Hawaii's Nisei May Volunteer …

Selected article titles: "Urge Nisei now repay U.S. by service. Rep. Inouye warns against 'patting ourselves on the back' at EDC-MDC fete" (p. 1), "Appoint Tsukiyama chief justice of Hawaii's state supreme court" (p. 1), "Congress extends law to admit orphans and tuberculosis victims" (p. 1), "Army to investigate discrimination charge of Negro GI with Japanese …