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2240 items
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Tulean Dispatch Vol. III No. 42 (September 3, 1942) (ddr-densho-65-39)
Selected article titles: "Farm Products Being Shipped" (p. 1), "Farm Products Being Shipped" (p. 1), "Funai, Matsune, Namba, Ohmura, Takagaki, Tamaki, Tsujikawa Place 3216 Votes Cast" (p. 1), "Committee On Mess Formed" (p. 1), "2,842 Workers Employed During Month of June" (p. 1), "For the Ladies: Fashion Show Friday Night" (p. 3), "Course in Beauty Culture …
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Tulean Dispatch Vol. IV No. 39 (January 5, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-127)
Selected article titles: "Tule Lake Project Most Advanced in Physical Aspect -- Coverley" (p. 1), "Project Pork Free From Danger of Trichinosis" (p. 1), "Co-op Profits Exempted From Income Tax" (p. 1), "Judge Will Take Wed Applications" (p. 1), "Co-op Holds Key to True Americanism" (p. 2), "Adult Education Loses Two Locks" (p. 2), "WRA Central …
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Letter to Yuri Domoto from Yoshito Shibata (ddr-densho-356-223)
Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Yoshito Shibata in which he recalls a month long recruitment trip to some of the WRA camps for qualified Niseis to join MIS. His writing includes a mention for being present to an incident at Poston (possibly the Poston Strike or the incidences that lead to the strike). He talks …
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Pacific Citizen Vol. 22 No. 2 (ddr-densho-121-10)
Selected article titles: "Justice Department Initiates Hearings for 3000 Persons Who Wish to Remain in U.S." (p. 1), "Vandals Smash Glass in Store Owned by Nisei" (p. 1), "WRA Office Plans Survey of Resettled Evacuee Families" (p. 1), "Japanese American Issue Raised at Hawaii Hearing" (p. 1), "Order Relaxes Restrictions on Enemy Aliens" (p. 1), "Army …
Narrator William Marutani
Nisei male. Born March 31, 1923, in Kent, Washington. During World War II, was incarcerated at the Pinedale Assembly Center, California, and Tule Lake concentration camp, California. After leaving camp to attend college in South Dakota, was drafted into the U.S. Army and served with the Military Intelligence Service during the postwar occupation of Japan. After …
Narrator Frank Miyamoto
Nisei male. Born July 29, 1912, in Seattle, Washington. Wrote 'Social Solidarity Among the Japanese in Seattle' as a Master's thesis, published in 1939 as one of the first academic works on the Japanese immigrant community. Incarcerated in Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Member of the Evacuation and Resettlement Study which studied the incarceration and resettlement …
Narrator Jim Hirabayashi
Nisei male. Born October 30, 1926, in small town of Thomas, Washington, on family farm. Attended school in Auburn, Washington, before being removed to the Pinedale Assembly Center and Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Left camp to work in Idaho, and was subsequently joined by family. Postwar, became a social anthropologist, and later became only the …
Narrator Kenji Maruko
Sansei male. Born December 13, 1920, in Fresno, California. Father was born in Hawaii, mother was born in Japan. Grew up in Fresno, where parents ran a successful bicycle shop and general store. During World War II, removed to the Fresno Assembly Center, California, and the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. Signed "no-no" on the so-called "loyalty …
Narrator Jeff Furumura
Sansei male. Born November 23, 1950, in Los Angeles, California. During World War II, father was in a tuberculosis sanitarium, then was taken to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California, and mother was sent to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. Parents met in Chicago, Illinois, after leaving the camps. …
Narrator Tokio Yamane
Kibei male. Born Born September 2, 1922, in Hawaii. Moved with family to Hiroshima at age three, then returned to the Fresno area of the U.S. for high school. During World War II, was sent to the Fresno Assembly Center, California, and the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. While at Jerome, refused to answer the so-called "loyalty …
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Densho Collection (ddr-densho-35)
The Densho collection consists of historic photographs of early Seattle and surrounding areas, as well as current photographs of historical sites and community events. This collection includes photographs of Tule Lake, California; Minidoka, Idaho; the Nisei veterans Memorial Day service in Seattle, Washington, and photos of the Golden Potlatch festival in Seattle, Washington, c. 1911. Also …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 16 No. 26 (July 3, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-26)
Selected article titles: "JACL President Brands Dies Group Charges as Vicious Attack Upon Nisei Integrity" (p. 1), "Dies Group Opens Hearings on Japanese Americans. First Witness Asks for Segregation of Disloyal Elements in WRA Centers" (p. 1), "First Nisei Girl Accepted For Service in WAAC" (p. 1), "Luxury Foods Not Bought For Evacuees. Army Buyer Says …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 18 No. 13 (April 22, 1944) (ddr-pc-16-17)
Selected article titles: "Ban on Return of Evacuees May Be for Reasons Other Than Military, Declares 'Fortune'" (p. 1), "Nine Soldiers Sentenced at Courts-Martial. 28 on Trial for Refusal to Accept Military Training" (p. 2), "Sentinel Calls On Center to Save Youths" (p. 2), "Draft Delinquents Placed in Jail in Four Wyoming Cities" (p. 2), "Five …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 31 No. 20 (November 18, 1950) (ddr-pc-22-46)
Selected article titles: "Twelve Japanese Americans To Serve in Isle Legislature; Okino Election Called Surprise" (p. 1), "Plan to Speed Action on Claims of Aged Issei" (p. 1), "Kawakita Appeals Treason Conviction Before U.S. Court. Convicted of Charge of Brutal Treatment of War Prisoners" (p. 1), "Sen. McCarran Will Expedite Citizenship Bill, Says Masaoka" (p. 1), …
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Letter from Jennie G. Hermon, Clerk, Local Board No. 277, Selective Service System, to Nobuo Naohara, March 2, 1945 (ddr-csujad-38-573)
A letter from Jennie G. Hermon, Local Board No. 277, Selective Service System, to George Nobuo Naohara incarcerated in the Tule Lake camp in California. It requires George to answer all the questions in DDS from 304A. It appears that George did not follow their instruction, crossing out his answers on the forms, and the office …
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Nisei men's basketball team (ddr-csujad-44-11)
A photograph of ten Nisei men in front of a basketball goal at Tule Lake, California. They are presumably basketball team members. The men are in two rows. Five men are standing in the back row. Five men are kneeling in the front row. The man in the middle of the front row is holding a …
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Distant View of a Group of People and Building (ddr-csujad-13-17)
This photograph depicts a group of people standing together with a building structure in the background at the Tule Lake incarceration camp. According to the caption on back of photograph, which reads, "Disloyal Japs who were [cuffed] up when they first refused to answer inquires of [army] questioning. Leaving [them back] to stockade under guard," this …
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Art Club (ddr-csujad-44-35)
A photograph of Nisei students incarcerated at Tule Lake, California. They are presumably the member of Art Club. The large group is posing for the photo in three rows in front of a barrack. The back two rows are young men and women standing behind a row of young women seated in a row of chairs. …
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Peace activist and internees (ddr-densho-13-45)
Floyd Schmoe, a pacifist and supporter of the Japanese American community, with Yoshi Asaba and Father Joe Kitagawa at the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Father Kitagawa was the Episcopal minister at Minidoka. Floyd Schmoe was born in 1895 and is a peace activist and Quaker from Seattle, Washington. Schmoe was a strong supporter of the Japanese …
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Rocky Shimpo Vol. 12, No. 102 (August 24, 1945) (ddr-densho-148-189)
Selected article titles: "Fear Needless, Asserts Cozzens"; "On the Other Hand"; "Fighting Sgt. is Returning Home"; "Japanese Dentists May Soon Lose Their Jobs"; "More Than Half of Those Leaving Camp Go to Calif."; "Rice Harvested in Louisiana: 23,000,000 Bushels"; "Judge Denies He Was Threatened"; "Scatter Them East of the Rockies -- They Say"; "United States Attorney …
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Tulean dispatch magazine section, vol. 1, no. 7 (February 1943) (ddr-csujad-55-1635)
Monthly publication at Tule Lake incarceration camp including stories, poems, commentary and creative writing. Current issue includes "Snow Blossom" by Ken Yasuda, "Barber's Wife' by Arthur Morimitsu, "In the Still of the Night" by Frank Tanabe, "Haiku and Painting" by Ken Yasuda, "Looking Back" by George Nakamura, "Expose of the Wolf" by Iroh Otoko, "Corn on …
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Frank F. Nakamura (ddr-csujad-55-2384)
Narrative essay describing Frank F. Nakamura's experience as an individual of Japanese ancestry living in California during the events of World War II. Nakamura describes his role as the Sutter-Yuba president of the Japanese American Citizens League, the evacuation orders and their impact on the community, Nakamura's experience at Tule Lake and Granada incarceration camps, relocation …
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Tulean dispatch magazine section, no. 11 (July 1943) (ddr-csujad-55-1946)
Monthly publication at Tule Lake incarceration camp including stories, poems, commentary and creative writing. Current issue includes an essay, "Does it Pay to Stay Here" by Rev. Shigeo Tanabe, a poem, "Relocation" by Minoru Kimura, "Nisei Personality Adjustment" by James Sakoda, "Gloom" by Buster Sawai, "Outside" by Shuji Kimura, Nisei personality profile on Rev. Shigeo Tanabe, …
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Roy Doi Interview (ddr-densho-1011-5)
Nisei male. Born March 26, 1933, in Sacramento, California. Grew up in Sacramento where father was a migrant farm laborer. During World War II, removed to the Marysville Assembly Center, California, and the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Transferred with family to the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Returned to California after the war.
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Homer Yasui Interview I (ddr-one-7-26)
Nisei male. Born December 28, 1924, in Hood River, Oregon. Grew up in Hood River, where father and uncles ran a store. During World War II, removed to the Pinedale Assembly Center, California, and the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. After leaving camp, attended college in Denver and Philadelphia. Eventually became a physician and returned to …