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doc Westchester Spotlight on Kaneji Domoto (ddr-densho-329-849)

Three-page profile of Kan featured in issue 29 of Westchester Spotlight, April 1983. Includes information about the Domoto family and his work history, with a focus on Frank Lloyd Wright and the Usonia homes. Also includes reflections on his experience on camp, on not speaking out against the injustice at the time, and on his subsequent …

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doc Letter from Kaneji Domoto to Wakako Domoto (ddr-densho-329-869)

Letter from New York. Kan reports conversations with a client about arranging a rock garden, in which he wants it to be "200% perfect." He is planning for his trip to Taliesin to interview with Frank Lloyd Wright. Activities in New York" visit to "the Bronx park" (possibly New York Botanical Garden) and seeing shows on …

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doc Letter from Joseph Ishikawa to Alice or Johnny (ddr-densho-468-245)

First page of a letter describing acceptance of new job at Beloit, Wisconsin

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doc Letter from Kaneji Domoto to Wakako Domoto (ddr-densho-329-880)

Letter from Taliesin. On sewing a Halloween costume for a party with the fellows, along with sketches of how he made a Japanese Haori out of a blanket; goings on at Taliesin both social and professional. Buckminster Fuller comes to speak to the fellows.

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doc Letter from Theodore Sorensen to Dean Bentsen (ddr-densho-468-250)

Thank you declining invitation to speak at convocation at Beloit College this semester. Request to schedule speech at next winter's convocation.

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doc letter from Theodore Sorensen to Joseph Ishikawa (ddr-densho-468-249)

Thank you declining invitation to speak at convocation at Beloit College

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doc Letter from Kaneji Domoto to his sisters Wakako and Yuri (ddr-densho-329-865)

Letter from New York. Kan has finished the New York World's Fair garden job, and his relationship with Nagao Sakurai has improved. The World's Fair has opened and he has been exploring it in his week off; he describes various exhibits and critiques the Japanese exhibit (with a sketch of the floorplan and traffic flow). He …

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doc Letter from Kaneji Domoto to his father Kanetaro (ddr-densho-329-875)

Letter from Chicago, where Kan is borrowing a car from his brother Toichi "Nich" Domoto and visiting some local Frank Lloyd Wright houses. He plans to return to Taliesin East to pack his things before continuing on to Arizona for the winter at Taliesin West, and hopes to spend some time at home at the end …

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doc Racial Problems Will Be Discussed (June 3, 1945) (ddr-densho-56-1122)

The Seattle Daily Times, June 3, 1945, p. 12

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doc Letters from Kaneji Domoto to his siblings Toichi and Wakako (ddr-densho-329-883)

Letters from Taliesin. Letter to Toichi "Nich" Domoto: Kan tells him about the fall colors among the deciduous trees, a new method of balling trees, which he illustrates with sketches. Letter to Wak: Kan is doing some drafting of Hillside, where the fellows live at Taliesin. Gei and Mary Fujii come for a brief visit. Fall …

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doc Des Moines Tribune: "What Has Happened To Them?" (ddr-densho-468-243)

Profile on Ishikawa focusing on his work as art curator in Des Moines, Sioux Falls, and Beloit, Wisconsin.

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doc Letter from Kaneji Domoto to Wakako Domoto (ddr-densho-329-881)

Letter from Taliesin. Wak has said he should have finished his architectural studies at the university first before going to Taliesin and he agree. He thinks he would like to work for a contractor instead of going back to school or staying for a long time at Taliesin. "Somehow I want to live my own life. …

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doc Kaneji Domoto Diary, 1942 (ddr-densho-329-950)

Kaneji's diary from March 6, 1942 - October 7, 1942, spanning the Domoto family's time from being at home in California to about a month after arrival at Amache. Early pages of the diary resemble a notebook loosely structured by date and containing a mixture of daily activities, accounting, notes from work at the nursery, and, …

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img Class photograph (ddr-densho-433-1280)

Written on verso: First Row - 1. Suzanne Stein, 2. Helen Wright, 3. Mildred Hizer, 4. Annette Holland, 5. Eleanor Howard, 6. Lorraine Stacy, 7. Dorothy Bacon, 8. Jackie Anderson, 9. Antoinette Trigo, 10. Joyce Ann Meyers, 11. Pat Moy, 12. Joy Sychr, 13. Gloria Cardozie, 14. Pearl Morgan, 15. Betty Belmont, Second Row - 1. …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 71, No. 24 (December 11, 1970) (ddr-pc-42-49)

Selected article titles: "Little Tokyo asks United Way for reconsideration" (p. 1), "Suspect found in Okubo murder" (p. 1), "Legal aid director quits, unable to fire Nisei staffer" (p. 1), "Youths back anti-Elks resolution" (p. 3), "Educator urges greater stress, more classes in U.S. on Japan and Japanese" (p. 3), "Asian Americans for Peace march" (p. …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 70, No. 17 (May 1, 1970) (ddr-pc-42-17)

Selected article titles: "Bomb rips Seattle Japanese church" (p. 1), "Absolves loyal order of moose in refusing Negro service" (p. 1), "JACLers urged to reduce poverty and racism in U.S." (p. 1), "First textbook by Nisei teachers on Japanese Americans expected in July" (p. 2), "Property of Nisei family provides 'Honda Hill' for trail bike enthusiasts" …

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doc Tulean Dispatch Magazine Section Vol. I No. 5 (December 1942) (ddr-densho-65-430)

Selected article titles: "When Peace" (p. 4), "Dawns" (p. 5), "This is Our Colony" (p. 7), "Corn on the Cob" (p. 8), "I'll Always Remember..." (p. 9), "Tule Lake of Yesterday" (p. 13), "Looking Back" (p. 19), "Prose n' Odes" (p. 21).

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Collection Kaneji and Sally (Fujii) Domoto Collection (ddr-densho-329)

Accessions 1-2: The Kaneji and Sally (Fujii) Domoto collection consists mostly of correspondence to Kaneji Domoto from his wife Sally, and his sisters Wakako and Yuriko. The letters primarily date between 1942 and 1952, when Kaneji was on the East Coast looking for work and his family was held at Amache, and after WWII when his …

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doc County Court ruling on James Faucett's estate (ddr-densho-493-5)

Decision by Judge Adam Beeler: Lays out the history of the ownership of the land; its occupancy and the history of who had performed labor there; details the relationships of all those involved to the deceased; and history of the suit—in which the sister and niece of the deceased, Emma Morrisey and May Pickett, respectively, filed …

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doc Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians "MAGIC" cables memorandum (ddr-densho-381-47)

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doc Tulean Dispatch Vol. 4 No. 60 (January 29, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-146)

Selected article titles: "Christmas Seal Drive Nets $631: Record Sale is $147 on Second Day" (p. 1), "Skaters Fall in Sewerage Pond" (p. 1), "Jury Finds Defendants Not Guilty" (p. 1), "Planning Board Assembly Is Sat." (p. 1), "Loren Huycke: Three Methods of Relocation" (p. 1), "Current Social Trend is Lavish -- Planning Board" (p. 2), …

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doc Tulean Dispatch Vol. 5 No. 43 (May 10, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-223)

Selected article titles: "Resettlers Scored Who Leave Jobs On Outside Too Soon" (p. 1), "Minimum Wage Scale Set For Sugar Beet Workers" (p. 1), "Project Evacuee Workers to be Reduced" (p. 1), "Gifted Tulean: A Man With a Winning Hand is Oliver K. Noji" (p. 2), "Roving Reporter: Advantages of Married Life, Bachelorhood Given" (p. 2), …

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