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67 items
67 items


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Man standing by fire truck outside fire station (ddr-densho-464-8)
Inscription on front: Morito Sako. Sign on building: Heart Mountain Fire Department

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Home with pool tables (ddr-densho-162-48)
The home of Daishiro Sako was used as a social center for some 200 Japanese workers.


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Heart Mountain Sentinel Supplement Series 314 (June 21, 1945) (ddr-densho-97-521)
Selected article titles: "All-Star Baseball Game Scheduled Tonight to Honor Al Sako" (p. 1), "Residents Asked to Make Afghans" (p. 1).

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Christmas card (with envelope) to Mollie Wilson from Sako (December 23, 1944) (ddr-janm-1-54)
Christmas card to Mollie Wilson from Sako (December 23, 1944). Blue/brown card with illustration in brown/red/green of the Three Wise Men on camels following the North Star. Envelope is postmarked December 23, 1944 from the Poston (Colorado River) Incarceration Camp in Parker, Arizona.

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Postcard to Molly Wilson from Sako (December 6, 1944) (ddr-janm-1-55)
Postcard to Mollie Wilson from Sako (December 6, 1944). It is postmarked December 7, 1944 from the Poston (Colorado River) Incarceration Camp in Parker, Arizona.

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Rocky Shimpo Vol. 12, No. 165 (December 31, 1945) (ddr-densho-148-250)
Selected article titles: "On the Other Hand"; "Urge Compensation for Evacuees Who Suffered Any Damages to Property"; "Inter-demoninational Holiday Service Slated"; "Child Born to Sako Family"; "Admiral Fletcher Decorates Mihara"; "Leader Presses FEPC Legislation"; "Civil Liberties Union Supporting Court Challenge of Renunciation of Citizenship by Japanese Americans"; "New Year's Eve Service"; "Want Ads Today."


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Seattle Times: Exhibits celebrate immigrants' strengths, talents in new country (ddr-densho-446-452)
Article titled "Japanese-American women" noted that the 11 NW women added to the exhibit at the Burke were chosen by a committee of their peers.

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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 49, No. 16 (October 16, 1959) (ddr-pc-31-42)
Selected article titles: "Issei red cap, working at Seattle's King St. station since opening day in 1906, retires" (p. 1), "Ike congratulates Issei 100 years old" (p. 1), "San Francisco Bay area surpassing Los Angeles in production of cut flowers" (p. 1), "Repeal of Arizona Alien Land Act Sought by JACL" (p. 2), "U.S. Supreme Court …

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (ddr-densho-446-451)
Selected articles: Seattle woman's saga captured in photo (p.1-2); Club Asia (p. 2)

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Embroidered handkerchief (ddr-densho-518-3)
A handkerchief embroidered with a Minidoka motif and a collection of signatures.