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Letter from Harry Gamble to Floyd D. Shimomura (ddr-densho-345-74)
doc Letter from Harry Gamble to Floyd D. Shimomura (ddr-densho-345-74)
Harry Gamble writes to Floyd Shimomura about the National Park Service making Tule Lake concentration camp a National Historic Landmark site.
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies  meeting on January 6, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-761)
doc Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on January 6, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-761)
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on January 6, 1942. Topics covered in the meeting include: reading of correspondence regarding Issei being detained by authorities, relief funds frozen as some of the account holders were Issei, Japanese American Citizens' League seeking advise, and violence by Filipino Americans against Japanese Americans.
Memo to assembly center managers on clothing allotment procedure (ddr-densho-356-781)
doc Memo to assembly center managers on clothing allotment procedure (ddr-densho-356-781)
Memo to all Assembly Center Mangers from R. L. Nicholson, Chief, Reception Center on the procedure for the purchasing of clothing for evacuees.
Visitor permit (ddr-densho-356-179)
doc Visitor permit (ddr-densho-356-179)
Visitor's permit to visit the Tenyo Maru on October 23, 1915 while docked in San Francisco.
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies  meeting on January 30, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-763)
doc Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on January 30, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-763)
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on January 30, 1942. Topics covered in the meeting include: ideas to support the Japanese American community as it faces discrimination, how to use media to lessen confusion between state and federal orders, working with California's Norther Civil Rights Committee, and questions about who would assist the …
Meeting Minutes from the Special National Board Meeting of the Japanese American Citizens League on March 8, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-768)
doc Meeting Minutes from the Special National Board Meeting of the Japanese American Citizens League on March 8, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-768)
Meeting minutes from the JACL Special Nation Board Meeting. Topics include bids for national membership, future organization and activities, Appointment of national committee chairmen, nomination of officers, Washington representative, Special report on evacuation, and discussion on general evacuation principles.
Civilian Exclusion Order No. 51 (ddr-densho-356-737)
doc Civilian Exclusion Order No. 51 (ddr-densho-356-737)
Pamphlet of Civilian Exclusion Order No. 51, includes a map of the prohibited area in California that was being evacuated on May 13, 1942.
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies  meeting on December 11, 1941 (ddr-densho-356-758)
doc Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on December 11, 1941 (ddr-densho-356-758)
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on December 11, 1941. Special meeting called to discuss five major problems facing Japanese Americans since the declaration of war. The five issues are: finance, transportation, unemployment, education, and child care.
Special Message from the Japanese American Citizens League's National President, Saburo Kido (ddr-densho-356-769)
doc Special Message from the Japanese American Citizens League's National President, Saburo Kido (ddr-densho-356-769)
Text of an address given at a JACL Emergency National Council Meeting on March 8, 1942 by National President Saburo Kido.
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies  meeting on December 23, 1941 (ddr-densho-356-760)
doc Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on December 23, 1941 (ddr-densho-356-760)
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on December 23, 1941. Topics covered in the meeting include: reopening of closed businesses, bank withdrawals, other committees working to address similar problems, travel of Japanese clergymen, stranded Japanese fishermen, fear of travel for Nisei chick sexers, individuals detained by FBI being moved inland, and bullying of …
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on February 20, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-767)
doc Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on February 20, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-767)
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on February 20, 1942. Topics covered in the meeting include: reading correspondence regarding Japanese Americans, summery of recent board meeting, planned community outreach regarding public sentiment towards Japanese Americans, and planning financial assistance for Japanese Americans.
Memo to assembly center managers about applications for release (ddr-densho-356-788)
doc Memo to assembly center managers about applications for release (ddr-densho-356-788)
Memo to all Assembly Center Managers from Wartime Civil Control Administration regarding policy and procedure for internee's applications for release.
Letter to Harry L. Black from E. Sandquist regarding status of students requesting to attending inland universities (ddr-densho-356-789)
doc Letter to Harry L. Black from E. Sandquist regarding status of students requesting to attending inland universities (ddr-densho-356-789)
Letter to Harry L. Black, Merced Assembly Center Manager from E. Sandquist, Chief Operations Section Wartime Civil Control Administration. Sandquist informs that the inland universities have been submitted for approval to the War Department and Navy Department and are pending formal approval.
Admission ticket (ddr-densho-356-178)
doc Admission ticket (ddr-densho-356-178)
Admission ticket for Panama-Pacific International Exposition Ground Breaking Ceremony for the Japan Beautiful exhibit.
Invitation to Yuri Domoto from Margaret (ddr-densho-356-164)
doc Invitation to Yuri Domoto from Margaret (ddr-densho-356-164)
Envelope and fabric invitation to celebrate Masa's engagement from Margaret to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada.
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on February 13, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-766)
doc Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on February 13, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-766)
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on February 13, 1942. Topics covered in the meeting include: reading correspondence regarding Japanese Americans, discussion about forming an office for gathering information about evacuation, and various types of social assistance to Japanese Americans.
Letter from US Public Health Services to Merced Assembly Center regarding the sale of contraceptives (ddr-densho-356-786)
doc Letter from US Public Health Services to Merced Assembly Center regarding the sale of contraceptives (ddr-densho-356-786)
Letter from W. T. Harrison, Senior Surgeon and Director of District # 5 with U.S. Public Health Services in San Francisco to Harry L. Black, Manager of Merced Assembly Center. The letter discusses the availability of contraceptives and venereal prophylactics to internees, and advises Merced make these items available to residents and provide medical guidance on …
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on February 6, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-765)
doc Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on February 6, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-765)
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on February 6, 1942. Topics covered in the meeting include: public support for German immigrants, and updates to restrictions on Japanese Americans in California, plans to help effected Japanese Americans.
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies  meeting on December 17, 1941 (ddr-densho-356-759)
doc Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on December 17, 1941 (ddr-densho-356-759)
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on December 17, 1941. Topics covered in the meeting include: Japanese travel restrictions, public school reactions, summary of conference with State Employment Department on employment of Japanese Americans, financial issues facing Japanese nationals due to the war, situation facing Italian and German immigrants, and community responses to …
Letter to Yuri Domoto from Mildred Allen (ddr-densho-356-542)
doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Mildred Allen (ddr-densho-356-542)
Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Mildred Allen. Mildred provides a list of contacts in New York City that may be able to help Yuri find a job on the East Coast. Additionally she writes about press about the war, her thoughts about Japanese Americans being released from camps and her observations of others reactions to …
Brief Analysis of Problems of Enemy Aliens with particular reference to San Francisco (ddr-densho-356-764)
doc Brief Analysis of Problems of Enemy Aliens with particular reference to San Francisco (ddr-densho-356-764)
A report from February 4, 1942 on immigrants of German, Italian, and Japanese descent living in California, the issues these communities are facing due to the war, xenophobia, and racism, and what the Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies Family Welfare Council can do to support them.
Hanako Yoshioka (ddr-densho-357-269)
img Hanako Yoshioka (ddr-densho-357-269)
Hanako Yoshioka stands between two unidentified friends while attending Mr. Nakashima's house warming party.
Bishop Kenju Masuyama (ddr-densho-357-356)
img Bishop Kenju Masuyama (ddr-densho-357-356)
Bishop Kenju Masuyama (center front) sits with other attendees of the Bussei (Buddhist Nisei) Conference in San Francisco.
Terakawa family (ddr-densho-357-708)
img Terakawa family (ddr-densho-357-708)
Hanako Terakawa's caption: "Back steps of home at 1859 Pine St., San Francisco. Mitsuru - 1 year, Kiyoshi - 3 yr. 3 mo, Hiroko - 9 yr. 2 mo." Left to right: Hiroko Terakawa, Mitsuru Terakawa, Hanako Terakawa, Kiyoshi Terakawa.
Bussei Conference (ddr-densho-357-353)
img Bussei Conference (ddr-densho-357-353)
Atsuko Nakano, from Hawaii, attends the Bussei (Buddhist Nisei) Conference in San Francisco.
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