Black and white photographic print of passengers aboard the Acadia en route to Japan. A couple is holding hands on deck, the man without a shirt is unidentified, and the woman in a white blouse and black skirt is identified as Ella Thomas.
Black and white photographic print of (from left) Aya Taketomi (wearing headscarf), Shiuko Sakai, and Ella Thomas standing in front of the Park Hotel. Photograph taken so the tops of the women's heads are cut off. Inscribed on the back: "Dec 46."
Thomas Rockrise's business card with the Trowbridge & Libingston architecture firm. Handwritten on the business card is Rockrise's Japanese name, Iwahiko Tsumanuma, and the address "550 Riverside avenue". On the back of the card is written the note "Easter Sunday April 4 1915".
Photograph of Irene Gavigan, L. Josephine Hawes and Eleanor Thomas sitting in front of a stand of trees near the Manzanar incarceration camp at a hospital staff picnic. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ecm_merritt_0453
A letter from Usami Terada, an incarceree at the Rohwer incarceration camp, to Mr. Thomas in Lawndale, California. It details his journey from the Santa Anita temporary assembly center, California, to the Rohwer incarceration camp, Arkansas, describing the route and what he saw along the way. He also describes the conditions of the incarceration camp. See …
Caption on reverse: "Visiting Nakahama family: Pictured above are Willard Whitfield (center), great grandson of Capt. William H. Whitfield, who rescued Manjiro Nakahama and three other shipwrecked Japanese fishermen, his aunt, Miss Allie W. Omey (left), and his mother, Mrs. Thomas J. Whitfield, as they arrived here this morning enroute to Japan aboard the Nitta Maru. …
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Photocopy of a declassified, notarized and handwritten letter from Thomas and Bertha Green in support of the reunification of Keizaburo Koyama with his family. On the final page, they write that Keizaburo wrote a letter from camp to his wife saying how proud he was to have three American-born children. They also state that they have …
Photocopy of a declassified, notarized and handwritten letter from Thomas and Bertha Green in support of the reunification of Keizaburo Koyama with his family. On the second page, the Greens give testimony to Keizaburo's character as being very appreciative of any kindness shown to him or his family and that he is honest with any dealings …
Photocopy of a declassified, notarized and handwritten letter from Thomas and Bertha Green in support of the reunification of Keizaburo Koyama with his family. In the first page, they detail how they met the Koyama family with they were living with the Goodenoughs. The next year, the Koyamas attended the wedding anniversary for the Greens and …
Sansei female. Born 1962 in Spokane, Washington. Father was born in British Columbia, Canada, and mother was born in Thomas, Washington. Grew up in the Tacoma, Washington, area, before eventually moving to Portland, Oregon, and then Seattle, Washington. Graduated from the University of Washington. Became regional director for the Japanese American Citizens League, and then Executive …
Group of 9 individuals outside near a tall structure. Written on the back "Front row - L. to R. Hede, Ida, Mea, Ed, Carl, and Oki Back row Edith, Doris and Mr. Thomas (teacher)" in blue ink. The photograph was stored loosely between pages 34 & 35.
Caption on reverse [translation]: "Commemorative Photograph of the British Cabinet. (London) Rengo. From Row (from left): Philip Snowden, Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, Sir Herbert Samuel, Lord Sankey. Rear Row (from left): Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, J.H. Thomas, Lord Reading, Neville Chamberlain, Sir Samuel Hoare."
Volunteering for the army after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
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Returning from Japan and readjusting to life in the U.S.
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Hearing about discrimination in Hood River after the war
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