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Morning service during the NWB convention (ddr-sbbt-3-37)
img Morning service during the NWB convention (ddr-sbbt-3-37)
Morning service during the Northwest District Buddhist convention.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-sbbt-3-37/
Kei bell at the NWB convention (ddr-sbbt-3-130)
img Kei bell at the NWB convention (ddr-sbbt-3-130)
A kei bell on display at the Northwest District Buddhist convention.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-sbbt-3-130/
Lantern and dry stream, south end of Bellarmine Hall, Seattle University (ddr-densho-354-2030)
img Lantern and dry stream, south end of Bellarmine Hall, Seattle University (ddr-densho-354-2030)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-354-2030/
Nikkei Kai 1935 (ddr-densho-474-11)
img Nikkei Kai 1935 (ddr-densho-474-11)
Group photo of 24 men at Japanese Language School
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-474-11/
Medical inspection card (ddr-densho-23-14)
doc Medical inspection card (ddr-densho-23-14)
Bunshiro Tazuma was a longtime Seattle resident and the owner of the Tazuma Ten-Cent Store in Seattle's Nihonmachi. In 1917, he immigrated to Seattle and became a permanent resident. (From 1908 to 1914, he had worked in Montana.) The Issei were required to carry medical inspection cards in conjunction with several other documents to show that …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-23-14/
Pacific Citizen, Vol. 65, No. 14 [11] (September 15, 1967) (ddr-pc-39-38)
doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 65, No. 14 [11] (September 15, 1967) (ddr-pc-39-38)
Selected article titles: "Rep. Matsunaga fights plan for civil service racial survey" (p. 1); Seattle Bon Odori attendance tempered by neighborhood unrest" (p. 1), "Min Yasui appointed director of community relations group" (p. 1), "Japanese Americans hold superficial show of education in higher esteem" (p. 1), "Seattle Japanese leader plays major role in Alaska, sees many …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-39-38/
Pacific Citizen, Vol. 60, No. 26 (June 25, 1965) (ddr-pc-37-26)
doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 60, No. 26 (June 25, 1965) (ddr-pc-37-26)
Selected article titles: "Seattle JACL's Human Rights Series Ended" (p.1), "Jr. JACL Interim Councillors Prepare for Major '66 Stand" (p.1-2), "Virginia Court to Test Validity of Its Anti-Miscegination Law" (p.1), "Immigration Bill Slowdown" (p.2), "Non-Discrimination Policies Called for in Seattle Mayor's Order" (p.3), "Yem Claimants File Appeal to Reverse District Court Rule" (p.6).
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-37-26/
Three men looking at a mass removal map (ddr-densho-36-48)
img Three men looking at a mass removal map (ddr-densho-36-48)
Japanese Americans looking at a map of the mass removal districts. The map was posted at the Japanese American Citizens League office. Original Seattle Post-Intelligencer caption: "Marching orders; Japanese residents of Seattle studying a map in the office of the Japanese-American Citizen's League showing the areas from which all members of their race will be evacuated …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-36-48/
Mass removal processing center (ddr-densho-36-13)
img Mass removal processing center (ddr-densho-36-13)
Original caption from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Novel audience--Scene in the old theater at 1319 Rainier Ave. which has been converted into a civil control station for evacuation of Japanese from Seattle this week. The Japanese passed from table to table and when the "show" was over they were ready for their trip to the assembly center …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-36-13/
Japanese American family inside barracks (ddr-densho-39-28)
img Japanese American family inside barracks (ddr-densho-39-28)
Dorothy and Jack Yamaguchi, pictured in the middle and to the far right, with their children and the children's grandmother, were from Seattle, Washington. The Yamaguchis returned to Seattle after World War II and worked to help preserve Japanese American history. They developed a slide show and accompanying book called This Is Minidoka, which they used …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-39-28/
Portrait of brother and sister as young children (ddr-densho-383-223)
img Portrait of brother and sister as young children (ddr-densho-383-223)
The Fukuharas were neighbors of the Tokuda family in Seattle in the 1930s. The Fukuhara family included Shigesaburo and Yasuko Fukuhara (c. 1905-1938) and their children Ruth Aiko Fukuhara (1921-1986), Francis Masateru Fukuhara (1925-2016), and Henry Kiyotaka Fukuhara (1928-1977). Written on album page below photograph: "Aiko and Masateru Fukuhara". Embossed on lower left corner of photograph: …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-383-223/
Eiichi Yamashita Interview II (ddr-densho-1000-424)
vh Eiichi Yamashita Interview II (ddr-densho-1000-424)
Nisei male. Born January 27, 1923, in Seattle, Washington. Grew up in Seattle, Washington. Finished high school in Bellingham, Washington, where family moved for father's oyster business. During World War II, removed to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Left camp and lived in Chicago briefly before returning to the Samish Bay area near Bellingham to …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-424/
Jan Kumasaka Interview (ddr-densho-1000-518)
vh Jan Kumasaka Interview (ddr-densho-1000-518)
Sansei female. Born August 12, 1937, in Seattle, Washington. During World War II, family removed to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Lived in Minidoka for only four months before leaving camp to live and farm in Great Falls, Montana. After a few years, returned to Seattle. Attended the University of …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-518/
Eiichi Yamashita Interview I (ddr-densho-1000-423)
vh Eiichi Yamashita Interview I (ddr-densho-1000-423)
Nisei male. Born January 27, 1923, in Seattle, Washington. Grew up in Seattle, Washington. Finished high school in Bellingham, Washington, where family moved for father's oyster business. During World War II, removed to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Left camp and lived in Chicago briefly before returning to the Samish Bay area near Bellingham to …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-423/
Letter approving travel (ddr-densho-314-19)
doc Letter approving travel (ddr-densho-314-19)
Andrew Jordan writes to Kazuichi Takanishi stating that his application for permission to travel has been approved and included a coach railroad ticket in the ticket. Takanishi was to travel from Chicago to Seattle and even though the war was officially over, Takanishi still had to report to the chief of the Detention, Deportation and Parole …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-314-19/
Land Survey (ddr-densho-430-131)
doc Land Survey (ddr-densho-430-131)
Land survey of the five lots of land the Seattle Betsuin Buddhist Temple purchased for the construction of the new temple. Includes additional handwritten notes.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-430-131/
Temple design plans (ddr-densho-430-97)
doc Temple design plans (ddr-densho-430-97)
Architectural plans altar, likely for Betsuin Temple in Seattle, approved by the Buddhist Mission of North American in San Francisco. With handwritten notes in Japanese
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-430-97/
Testimony of Hide Shimomura (ddr-densho-67-291)
doc Testimony of Hide Shimomura (ddr-densho-67-291)
Written testimony of Hide Shimomura. This testimony was submitted for the CWRIC hearings in Seattle, Washington, September 9-11, 1981. Personal information excised by Densho.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-67-291/
Family portrait (ddr-densho-62-5)
img Family portrait (ddr-densho-62-5)
Family in the Earle Apartments in Seattle. Edith Watanabe's father Kichiro, mother Kita Takagi, holding Edith; L to R: brother Harry, sister Michiko, sister Miyoko.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-62-5/
Heart Mountain Sentinel Bulletin No. 330 (August 11, 1945) (ddr-densho-97-531)
doc Heart Mountain Sentinel Bulletin No. 330 (August 11, 1945) (ddr-densho-97-531)
Selected article titles: "Seattle Coach Planned" (p. 1), "Family Housing is Offered" (p. 1), "'We're Americans Again' -- Toriumis" (p. 2), "Building Materials Available" (p. 3).
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-97-531/
Testimony of Mitsuko (Yasukochi) Funakoshi (ddr-densho-67-272)
doc Testimony of Mitsuko (Yasukochi) Funakoshi (ddr-densho-67-272)
Written testimony of Mitsuko (Yasukochi) Funakoshi, born in Meloland, California. This testimony was submitted for the CWRIC hearings in Seattle, Washington, September 9-11, 1981.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-67-272/
National Nisei Veterans Reunion (ddr-densho-114-502)
img National Nisei Veterans Reunion (ddr-densho-114-502)
Congressman Spark Matsunaga greeting supporters at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Congressman Matsunaga was the keynote speaker at the reunion event held at Seattle's Olympic Hotel.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-114-502/
Congregation outside the Japanese Baptist Church (ddr-densho-12-1)
img Congregation outside the Japanese Baptist Church (ddr-densho-12-1)
The Japanese Baptist Church is located at 160 Broadway in Seattle, Washington. Before World War II, this area was adjacent to Seattle's Nihonmachi, or Japantown.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-12-1/
Latona Grocery Store (ddr-densho-136-21)
img Latona Grocery Store (ddr-densho-136-21)
An Issei couple operated this grocery store from approximately 1935-1939. It was located at 319 NE 42nd Street in the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-136-21/
Application for Alien Enemy Travel Permit (ddr-sbbt-2-1)
doc Application for Alien Enemy Travel Permit (ddr-sbbt-2-1)
An application for an alien enemy travel permit for Tatsuya Ichikawa. Ichikawa requests to travel to areas around Seattle to hold services in Japanese communities.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-sbbt-2-1/
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