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img Japanese community, beach (ddr-csujad-25-297)

A page from a photo album including Japanese family photographs. Four photographs are pasted on the page. Includes: a Japanese house in Japan and photographs depicting the Japanese community at the beach. The photographs are probably taken in the early 1900s. Location is unknown. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project …

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img Japanese family, children (ddr-csujad-25-310)

A page from a photo album including Japanese family photographs. Pasted on the page are family photographs, including mostly children. Inscription on one of the photographs reads, "To Ada, yours, Nobu." The photographs are probably taken in the early 1900s. Location is unknown. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: …

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img Friends (ddr-csujad-25-225)

A page from the Taenaka family photo album. Pasted on the pages are five photographs of the Taenakas' friends or relatives. Include portraits of: Sadaichi and Takae Kitada; Bunji or Fumiharu Okuda; Mexican beauty, Agustina; a Danish family. Location is unknown. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: jia_09_01_020

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doc Tribute paid Nisei missing in action (ddr-csujad-49-240)

Newspaper clipping on Nisei from the 442nd Regimental Combat Team paying tribute to those missing action with a tribute at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Washington, D.C. An item from: pages 116-117 of the Sue Kato scrapbook (gfb_skc_001). See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 2019_002_001_073_02

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img J.P. Morgan, Jr. (ddr-njpa-1-893)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "(Hertfordshire, England) Rengo. Finance king J.P. Morgan, ruler of the financial world of not only the West but of the entire globe, unexpectedly appeared in Britain and quietly took a break from his busy work in Scotland. For some reason unknown to us, Mr. Morgan, who never gives us opportunities to take …

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doc Message to John J. McCloy (ddr-densho-67-57)

Message from unknown source to John J. McCloy on Kibei in Hawaii. Discusses the professed loyalty or disloyalty to the U.S. of the Kibei - author states that all Kibei are probably disloyal. Requests transfer of interned, "loyal" Hawaiian Kibei to mainland camps because if those loyal Kibei filed a writ of habeas corpus in Hawaii, …

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img Mineo Osumi, Hisaichi Terauchi, and Japanese naval officers at an Italian monument (ddr-njpa-4-1821)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "Both Admirals arrived in Rome. Roman [?] alliance, September 6th. Admirals Terauchi and Osumi visited the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier after they got to Rome on September 6th. In the picture is Admiral Terauchi on the left side. Admiral Osumi is next to the person beside Terauchi. Route of transportation. From …

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doc Postcard to Dr. Keizaburo "Kei" Koyama from Lois Sato (ddr-one-5-18)

Postcard addressed to Dr. Keizaburo Koyama at Camp Livingston from Lois Sato at the Portland Assembely Center. Postmarked Jul 9, 1942. On the left side of the front of the postcard is a red Censored stamp with an unknown signature. On the back of the postcard is a handwritten message from Lois Sato. She writes about …

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doc Envelope to Dr. Keizaburo "Kei" Koyama from Teru Koyama (ddr-one-5-17)

White air mail envelope with a red, white and blue border. The envelope is addressed to Dr. Keizaburo Koyama at Camp Livingston. Sender information written in the upper left corner as "Mrs. Kei Koyama/No 16109 sec. 3-D-10/Japanese Assembly Center/N. Portland, Oregon." Postmarked June 23, 1942. Two additional dates handwritten below the postmark: "June 23-42" and "June …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 35 No. 13 (September 27, 1952) (ddr-pc-24-39)

Selected article titles: "Civic Groups Plan Coordinated Program to Assist Japanese Aliens to Become Citizens" (p. 1), "Issei Who Become Citizens Will Be Valuable Addition to Electorate, Says Masaoka" (p. 1), "Citizenship Class Planned To Aid Issei Naturalization" (p. 1), "Intermarriage Produces New Hawaiian Racial Type, But Unknown Elsewhere in World" (p. 2), "Report 1,300 Nisei …

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img Japanese family (ddr-csujad-25-304)

A page from a photo album including Japanese family photographs. Pasted on the page are family photographs including Japanese men hiking, a group of Japanese men and women, and a Japanese man standing in a farm. The photographs are probably taken in the early 1900s. Location is unknown. See this object in the California State Universities …

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img Children (ddr-csujad-25-320)

A page from a photo album including Japanese family photographs. Pasted on the page are photographs depicting Japanese or Japanese American children. Also includes a greeting card and inscription that reads: Mr and Mrs. Gimmie Hirakawa, Jo-Ann and Susan. Date and location are unknown. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project …

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img Leland school group photograph (ddr-densho-359-221)

Captioned "Leland School 1931".Top row, L to R: Margaret Ramsey, Viola Cunningham, Alice Kawamoto, Ella Taylor, Mrs. Williams, Roger Ramsey, Donald Nurnberg, Bill Stout; 2nd row from top: JIm Meeker, Joe Ono, Allan [last name unknown], James Semrau, Eugene Rasor; partial row between 2nd and 3rd rows: Albert Semrau, Harry Tanemura, Russell Kunz, Sydney Jensen, James …

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doc Memo to John J. McCloy regarding Kibei in Hawaii (ddr-densho-67-59)

Memo to John McCloy from unknown source regarding Hawaiian Kibei parolees. The author states that he had been paroling Kibei considered least dangerous and monitoring them as an alternative to transfering them to the mainland. This process only applied to a tiny population so the military would not be accused of "relaxing their vigilence." Author also …

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img Japanese family (ddr-csujad-25-299)

A page from a photo album including Japanese family photographs. Five photographs are pasted on the page, including photographs of a Japanese couple standing in front of a house and a photograph of a Japanese family having a picnic. The photographs are probably taken in the early 1900s. Location is unknown. See this object in the …

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img Japanese family (ddr-csujad-25-312)

A page from a photo album including Japanese family photographs. Photographs pasted on the page include a Japanese or Japanese American man in perhaps a lab, a passenger ship, and beaches. Another photograph captures Japanese men and women barbecuing outside. The photographs are probably taken in the early 1900s. Location is unknown. See this object in …

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img Japanese family (ddr-csujad-25-317)

A page from a photo album including Japanese family photographs. Pasted on the page are photographs of a Japanese family including men, women, and children. A Japanese couple pose in front of a building with a sign, "John Down's." The photographs are probably taken in the early 1900s. Location is unknown. See this object in the …

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img Japanese family (ddr-csujad-25-308)

A page from a photo album including Japanese family photographs. Pasted on the page are family photographs including Japanese men, women, and children. Many of them appear to be Nisei. One photograph captures a Japanese American female in kimono. The photographs are probably taken in the early 1900s. Location is unknown. See this object in the …

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img Family in front of their store (ddr-densho-13-39)

Left to right: Mr. Kawai, unidentified, Haruye (last name unknown) holding Teruo Shibata, Kinzo Asaba, and Nobujiro Shibata in front of Sagamiya, a Japanese confectionery, which was located at 524 Main in Seattle's Nihonmachi, or Japantown. Sagamiya was an institution in Seattle's Nihonmachi, well known for its mochigashi (Japanese rice cakes). Founded in the early 1900s …

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doc Rocky Shimpo Vol. 12, No. 100 (August 20, 1945) (ddr-densho-148-187)

Selected article titles: "Revise Procedure in Canadian Suit"; "On the Other Hand"; "Distinguished Service"; "Diverse Views are Held"; "Robert Sakai, Lieutenant"; "Views Divided on Governing Japan"; "Draftee Casualties Number Total of 755"; "Study Post-Camp Evacuee Problems"; "Guns, Pistols and Cameras Owned by Issei Will be Returned to Owners Soon"; "Man Disappears from Camp; Destination is Unknown"; …

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doc Memo from the office of John J. McCloy (ddr-densho-67-58)

Memo from the office of John J. McCloy to an unknown recipient regarding transfer of Hawaiian Kibei to Tule Lake. Author states that Kibei cannot be transferred due to lack of facilities and the fear that the Kibei will add to a growing militant section of internees. This would be problematic because the Japanese military might …

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img Hawaiian Nisei veteran presenting lei (ddr-densho-114-186)

Original caption: Colonel Joseph P. Sullivan, Sixth Army Quartermaster, represents General Mark W. Clark, CG, Sixth Army, at a ceremony where Sam Kinoshita, Nisei veteran of the 442nd Combat Team, holds Hawaiian lei of 1,100 individual flowers, which is on route to Paris to be placed on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arch …

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doc Manzanar Free Press Vol. II No. 50 (November 14, 1942) (ddr-densho-125-9)

Selected article titles: "Information Head for Co-op Chosen. George Matsumura to Fill New Post" (p. 1), "Three Leave for JACL Gathering" (p. 1), "Policeman Injured by Unknown Gang" (p. 1), "Frost Damages Local Crops" (p. 1), "Call in Sugar Ration Books" (p. 1), "Clothing Workers Begin Cataloging. Slight Changes in New Allowances" (p. 1), "New Work …

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img Football team (ddr-densho-23-17)

Organized sports such as baseball and football were important for the Japanese American community because they encouraged cohesiveness. Teams composed entirely of Nisei competed against one another. Several Nisei sports leagues were formed in the 1930s. Front (left to right): Torazo Hikida, Ken Shimbo, George Ishii, Jackson Sonada, Genji Nishimura (holding football), "Nap" Nishisaka, Fred Kosaka, …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 42, No. 20 (May 18, 1956) (ddr-pc-28-20)

Selected article titles: "Anti-Semitic letters signed by 'Niseis for Kawakita Society' rapped by JACL, misunderstanding among Nisei and Jews feared" (p. 1), "Nisei geologists to go on goodwill tour of Brazil for rare earth element study" (p. 1), "JACL to honor nation's wa dead May 30, lay wreath at Tomb of Unknown Soldier" (p. 1), "Six …

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