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vh Kazuko Miyoshi - Yasuko Miyoshi Iseri Interview (ddr-manz-1-134)

Nisei females, sisters. Kazuko Miyoshi born 1936, Yasuko Miyoshi Iseri born 1938. Grew up in Culver City, California, where parents ran a nursery business. During World War II, removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. Both sisters returned to California after the war.

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vh Doris Nitta Interview (ddr-manz-1-108)

Nisei female. Born December 28, 1929, in Florin, California. Grew up in Florin where parents ran a farm. During World War II, removed to the Fresno Assembly Center, California, and the Jerome and Rohwer concentration camps, Arkansas. After leaving camp, returned to California.

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vh Yoshiko Kanazawa Interview (ddr-jamsj-2-15)

Nisei female. Born October 9, 1935, in Pasadena, California. Grew up in Pasadena, where father worked as a gardener. During World War II, removed to the Tulare Assembly Center, California, and the Gila River concentration camp, Arizona. After leaving camp, returned to Pasadena.

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vh Ellen Watanabe-Huxtable Interview (ddr-chi-1-14)

Sansei female. Born in 1953 in Chicago, Illinois. Grew up hearing stories of her parents' wartime experiences at the Santa Anita Assembly Center and Manzanar concentration camp, California. After leaving camp, parents resettled in Chicago, Illinois, where Ellen was born and raised.

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vh Flora Ninomiya Interview (ddr-densho-1000-473)

Nisei female. Born April 8, 1935, in Richmond, California. Grew up in Richmond, where grandfather established a flower nursery business. During World War II, removed to the Amache concentration camp, Colorado. Returned to Richmond and resumed the family business after the war.

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vh Molly Enta Kitajima Interview (ddr-densho-1000-400)

Nisei female. Born October 10, 1925, in Strawberry Hill, British Columbia, near Vancouver. Grew up in Strawberry Hill where parents ran a farm. During World War II, family was removed inland to a farm near Winnipeg. Molly eventually married and moved to California.

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img Group sitting at a table at San Francisco YMCA (ddr-ajah-6-939)

Caption below photo: San Francisco YMCA, where Susumu Tomine (far left) went for English lessons, circa 1939-1940. He was a kibei, born in America but educated in Japan. Her returned when he was 18 years old to live in Alameda, CA.

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img Reed College (ddr-one-1-352)

Black and white photographic negative of Ayame Ogimi leaning back in a chair reading a book with her feet resting on a desk. The picture was taken at Reed College, most likely in the common area of her dorm, where Ayame attended school.

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img Japanese American preparing vegetable hot beds (ddr-densho-37-626)

Original WRA caption: Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. A young farm assistant preparing hot beds at the Jerome Center, where former west coast residents of Japanese ancestry now reside. The center farm activities will include the raising of any vegetable for center use.

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Picnic Shows There Are Many Japanese. South Park Residents Wonder Where All of the 2,000 Brown Men Who Met There Sunday Came From. (May 17, 1908) (ddr-densho-56-126)

doc Picnic Shows There Are Many Japanese. South Park Residents Wonder Where All of the 2,000 Brown Men Who Met There Sunday Came From. (May 17, 1908) (ddr-densho-56-126)

The Seattle Daily Times, May 17, 1908, p. 12

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doc Notification of a Nisei's induction into the military (ddr-densho-25-50)

Letter from the chaplain of the 12th training Regiment at Camp Robinson, Arkansas, to Matahichi Iseri. The letter describes Camp Robinson, where his son, Mitsuo (Mike), had been sent for military training. On January 23, 1942, the government decided to send Japanese American soldiers who were still in service to special camps in Arkansas and Alabama. …

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av May Minami Interview (ddr-densho-400-16)

May Minami was born on January 26, 1914, in Oxnard, California. She grew up in Gardena, California, where her father was the first person to sell insurance to other Japanese community members. During WWII, her parents were arrested by the FBI and the family was sent to the concentration camp at Rohwer, Arkansas. When she returned …

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vh Perry Dobashi Interview (ddr-jamsj-2-3)

Sansei male. Born in 1938 in San Jose, California. Raised in San Jose, where parents and grandparents owned a store in Japantown. Removed to Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and then to Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Returned to San Jose after the war, where family reestablished their business, the Dobashi Market. Mr. Dobashi eventually took …

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vh Kenneth Narahara Interview (ddr-ajah-1-2)

Sansei male. Born December 16, 1936, in Oakland, California. Grew up in Alameda, California, where parents had a florist business. Immediately after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans were forced to leave Alameda, so the family split up and moved to Oakland. Removed to the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, and the Topaz concentration camp, Utah. …

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vh Nancy Sawada Miyagishima Interview (ddr-densho-1000-214)

Sansei female. Born September 17, 1930, in Sacramento, California. Spent childhood in Sacramento where mother and stepfather worked on strawberry fields. Sent to live with relatives in Fort Lupton, Colorado, after mother passed away in March 1941. Unable to return to West Coast after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Extended family moved …

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Collection Naomi Higaki Family Collection (ddr-densho-458)

108 photographs documenting the Higaki family. Naomi Higaki grew up in Redwood City, California where he attended school and graduated from Sequoia Union High School in 1942. When World War II started the family (except for Naomi's father Nobuo who had been sent to a detention camp) moved to Kimberly, Idaho in April 1942 where they …

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Collection Kawauchi-Hall Family Collection (ddr-densho-553)

Collection contains photographs and written memory of a family pilgrimage to the site of Gila River in 1993 where they discovered a home base plate at the site of the old baseball field. Additionally, it contains letters regarding the display of the home plate at the Ellis-Shackelford House in 1997 and the donation of the plate …

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doc Topaz Times Welcome Issue (September 17, 1942) (ddr-densho-142-1)

Selected article titles: "Welcome to Topaz" (p. 1), "First Day" (p. 2), "Where to Go" (p. 2), "Topaz: Our City" (p. 2), "Administrative Staff of Central Utah Relocation Project" (p. 3), "Hand Baggages" (p. 3), "School to Open" (p. 3), "Scrap Lumber" (p. 3).

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doc Note regarding Japanese paintings (ddr-densho-299-227)

Note regarding paintings Japanese Army artists made which were displayed in conquered areas. After the war these paintings were moved to a museum where the author took pictures of many of them. The author cannot recall doing this though and jokes about his senility.

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img Japanese American family boarding bus (ddr-densho-151-145)

Original caption: Byron, California. This family of Japanese ancestry, evacuated from this farm in Contra Costa County, boards bus for Assembly center at Turlock Fairgrounds, 65 miles away. Evacuees will be transported later to War Relocation Authority centers where they will spend the duration.

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img Restaurant vacated by Japanese American owner (ddr-densho-151-85)

Original caption: The full caption for this photograph reads: San Francisco, California. Entrance to a restaurant vacated by a proprietor of Japanese descent prior to evacuation. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers where they will spend the duration.

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vh Miyoko Uzaki Interview (ddr-manz-1-156)

Nisei female. Born January 15, 1920, in Fresno, California. Grew up in the Fresno area where parents farmed grapes. During World War II, removed to the Fresno Assembly Center, California, and the Jerome and Rohwer concentration camps, Arkansas. After leaving camp, returned to Fresno.

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vh Margaret Stanicci Interview (ddr-manz-1-66)

Nisei female. Born December 28, 1918, in La Crescenta, California. Grew up in California where father operated a flower business. During World War II, removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. Lived in Chicago and New York after leaving camp, before eventually returning to California.

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doc Clipping regarding Alfred E. Smith (ddr-njpa-1-1937)

Caption on front: "The big chief from the sidewalks of New York: Alfred E. Smith after a visit to the Indian Village at the Chicago Fair where he was made 'Chief Happy Warrior,' appears in an Indian headdress. (Times Wide World Photos, Chicago Bureau.)"

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doc Newspaper clipping regarding Albert Einstein (ddr-njpa-1-283)

Caption on front: "A great scientist finds a haven in America: Professor Albert Einstein in his study at Princeton, N.J., where he is now a member of the faculty of the School of Mathematics of the Institute for Advanced Study. (Times Wide World Photos)."

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