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vh Jo Takata Interview Segment 9 (ddr-ajah-1-6-9)

Remembering getting in trouble as a child

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vh Jo Takata Interview Segment 13 (ddr-ajah-1-6-13)

Considering the wartime Japanese American experience and teaching history

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vh Jo Takata Interview Segment 11 (ddr-ajah-1-6-11)

Closeness of family and the importance of the Japanese American community

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vh Jo Takata Interview Segment 6 (ddr-ajah-1-6-6)

Parents jobs in camp: mother a block captain and father on agricultural leave

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vh Jo Takata Interview Segment 1 (ddr-ajah-1-6-1)

Family history

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vh Jo Takata Interview Segment 5 (ddr-ajah-1-6-5)

Cultural values and appreciation of community

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vh Jo Takata Interview Segment 7 (ddr-ajah-1-6-7)

Returning to Alameda after camp

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av Interview with Virginia Nakaso (tape 1, side 1) (ddr-ajah-6-286)

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av Interview with Virginia Nakaso (tape 1, side 2) (ddr-ajah-6-287)

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av Interview with Virginia Nakaso (tape 2, side 1) (ddr-ajah-6-288)

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doc Japanese Here To Lay Plans For World Hop (August 4, 1939) (ddr-densho-56-495)

The Seattle Daily Times, August 4, 1939, p. 3

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img Members of Company I, 299th Infantry on watch in the Hanalei Beach Area (ddr-densho-1007-164)

Caption on back.

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Narrator Jo Takata

Sansei female. Born January 16, 1944, at the Topaz concentration camp, Utah. After leaving camp, the family returned to Alameda, California, where they had lived before World War II. Jo grew up in Alameda and became a high school teacher. Involved with the Buena Vista United Methodist Church and numerous other Japanese American community activities in …

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img Yoshio Itahara with bicycle (ddr-ajah-6-507)

Caption below photo: Yoshio Itahara "Papa's photo might have been taken along the fence of the early Japanese Methodist Episcopal church (Alameda, CA),. . .where we lived during resettlement following internment, but he looks much younger with he bicycle, so it might have been along the wall on Pacific Court (a street that no longer exists). …

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img "R.T.C. 208 Co. B, 2nd Platoon, Camp Blanding Florida, Aug. - Dec. 1943" (ddr-densho-201-404)

Caption on reverse: "1st Row: George Tanagi Seattle, John Tanaka - Idaho Falls, Joe Ono - , Nobu Sakaguchi - , Satoru Sakuma, Mt. Vernon, Wash., Tamio Sakata, Roy Ono - Los Angles [sic], Mits Sakurada - Blackfoot Idaho, Ted Tadehara. 2nd Row: Emo Suzuki, Frank Shiota, Roy Ono, Ishida, Ernist [sic] Seko, Shiozaki - Idaho …

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img Woman in colorful kimono standing next to chair (ddr-ajah-6-22)

Caption on right includes biographical data for Hatsumi Iwamasa and her marriage to Taiji Mashihara

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av Footage from Ties That Bind: Generations of Faith (1 of 3) (ddr-ajah-4-66)

Footage featuring services and interviews from the Buena Vista United Methodist Church in Alameda, California. Shot for a documentary commemorating Buena Vista's centennial called Ties That Bind: Generations of Faith, produced by Wendy Hanamura.

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img Board of Management, Amache Co-op (ddr-csujad-55-1542)

Black and white photographic portrait of the Board of Management of Amache Consumer Enterprises at the Amache incarceration camp. Pictured, from left to right (front row), A. Takata, H.T. Tomio, M. Nakawatase (second row) K. Wunno, E. Yoshimoto, H. Tsuno, and I. Shirokawa. From Amache Co-op Souvenir Album, page 17. See also sac_jaac_1530 through sac_jaac_1589. See …

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img Team photo of ATK baseball team (ddr-ajah-5-60)

Caption below photo: Early Alameda Baseball circa 1913-1916. Includes individuals names

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doc Letter from Marvel Maeda and seven other author to Dr. Miles Cary, December 23, 1942 (ddr-csujad-55-1821)

Correspondence from Marvel Maeda, Catherine Embree, Kikuye Tanaka, Kunitani Anne, Mohri Eunice, Garret Nana, and Sunao Imoto to Miles Cary regarding recommendations for the Saturday morning school programs at Poston incarceration camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1824

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doc Resettlement handbook (ddr-densho-493-34)

"Resettlement Handbook" with front cover illustration of a person considering locations on a large globe. Published by the Evacuee Information Office of the Granada Project. Resource and instruction book for leaving camp. Instructions for how to make transportation arrangements and apply for transportation funding, close out clothing allowance, employment and last paychecks, return of government property, …

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doc Alameda Nihonmachi (ddr-ajah-6-326)

Map of Japanese owned businesses in Alameda from 1904-1940

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doc Tulean Dispatch Vol. 6 No. 32 (August 23, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-283)

Selected article titles: Family Groups May Yet Apply to Move Together" (p. 1), "Group Farming Plans Progress Favorably: Meeting at 708 Tonight" (p. 1), "Scholarship Fund is Swelled By Donations" (p. 1), "All Types of Employment Offered" (p. 1), "Success Story of Relocated Farmers" (p. 2), "Description of: Jerome Relocation Center" (p. 2), "Pickling Shed is …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 66, No. 5 (February 2, 1968) (ddr-pc-40-5)

Selected article titles: "Jury duty not burdensome but a privilege, Judge Sakuma Notes" (p. 1), "Seattle JACL has niche in meeting needs of a Puget Sound area with eight million" (p. 1), "U.S. empasis in Asia foreseen in future" (p. 1), "Chuman continues to challenge Nisei to fight poverty" (p. 1), "Negro-Japanese story to be told" …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 48, No. 12 (March 20, 1959) (ddr-pc-31-12)

Selected article titles: "Eisenhower signs Statehood bill without fanfare" (p. 1), "Uncle Sam's 50th star now in view. JACL jubilant over Hawaiian statehood and recognition of its citizens" (p. 1), "Japanese American Democratic Club drops racial designation, reaction is mixed" (p. 3), "Chapter eliminates racial restriction in own high school scholarship program" (p. 4), "Civil rights …

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