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img Portrait of man (ddr-ajah-6-747)

Caption below photo: An Issei man posed in Mataichi Ozeki's photo studio at 1621 Park Street, in Alameda, CA, circa 1910-1920s. While his identity is unknown, he attended the early version of the Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church, South, which later became Buena Vista Methodist.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-747/

doc Parole memorandum (ddr-densho-314-5)

This memorandum gives the date that Kazuichi Takanishi was paroled from the Santa Fe Justice Department internment camp. It also states that his address is unknown since a sponsor was not identified for Takanishi before he left camp. He was paroled to Chicago, Illinois.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-314-5/

img Three women in kimono (ddr-densho-252-29)

Three women dressed in kimono, standing with a small child. (Clockwise, from left) Kazu Taketani Taniguchi, unknown Yamamura nee Taniguchi, Toru Yamamura, Shizu Tanizaki nee Taniguchi. Caption on Post-it: "Kazu Taketani T., Renzo's sister Shizu (Dad's Grandma) - her dau. Mar. Yamamura; baby = Toru Yamamura (1st son)."

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img Shikie Kihara and husband (ddr-densho-252-75)

A man in a military uniform standing next to a seated woman in a kimono in front of a building. (Left to right) Unknown Shimazu and Shikie Kihara. Caption on Post-it: "Shikie Kihara w/husb., mar[ried] ? Shimazu. Her husband was 1st one to bomb Nanking."

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img Out with the kids (ddr-densho-252-80)

(Front row, left to right) Etsuko Taniguchi and unknown son of Chioko nee Taniguchi. (Back row, left to right) Chioko nee Taniguchi, Toshie Taniguchi, Keiko Taniguchi, and Shizuka Taniguchi. Caption on Post-it: "Chioko, Toshie (Shozo's wife), Shizuka (Uncle's wife), [Toshie's children] Etsuko and Keiko, Chioko's son."

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img Five children playing yard, with man standing nearby (ddr-ajah-6-901)

Caption below photo: Front yard of Risaburo Takeda's house on 2418 Railroad Ave before it became 2419 Tilden Way. Baby loquat tree at right is quite large as of 2022. L to R: unknown, Janet Takeda, Arlene Yamashita, Karen Yamashita, Doug Takeda and Jeff Yamashita, circa 1954

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img Group of men at table with food and drinks (ddr-ajah-3-13)

Caption below photo: A group of Niseis celebrate with food and drink, including bottle of Kist and Nehi sodas, and empty sake cups. These men were known to help at the Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA., but the event and date is unknown. Caption includes names

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img Todd Endo and unknown neighbors at public housing in Dayton, Ohio (ddr-densho-379-418)

The children are standing in front of the Endo family's residence in public housing after release from Rohwer.

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img Henri Takahashi on right, with two unknown men on board ship (ddr-densho-426-1984)

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img Portrait of Tomoye (holding Masako) and Henri Takahashi and unknown man (ddr-densho-426-60)

Man on right likely Tomoyuki Nozawa. Caption on back: January 29th, 1945 / Pinkie's first birthday

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img Tomoye (Nozawa) Takahashi and unknown man standing doorway of log house (ddr-densho-426-2020)

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doc Copy of letter from unknown writer to L.A. County draft board (ddr-densho-122-826)

Refusing to comply with the draft

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img Japanese family (ddr-csujad-25-341)

A family portrait photographed by "T. Akashi." It is probably taken in the early 1900s. Location is unknown. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: jia_12_003

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img Portrait of Mary Abe's family (ddr-one-1-77)

Black and white photographic negative of Mary Abe's family posed seated in her living room. Photo portrait of an unknown man on the side table. Back row left to right: Marge Horigami, Florence "Flo" (Teshima) Anazawa, remaining unidentified . Front row left to right: May (Abe) Endo unidentified woman.

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img Portrait of Mary Abe's family (ddr-one-1-78)

Black and white photographic negative of Mary Abe's family posed seated in her living room. Photo portrait of an unknown man on the side table. Back row left to right: Marge Horigami, Florence "Flo" (Teshima) Anazawa, remaining unidentified. Front row left to right: May (Abe) Endo, unidentified woman.

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img Reed College (ddr-one-1-354)

Black and white photographic negative of Carlos Ogimi and other students sitting at drawing table working on an unknown project. Carlos is the first seated student on the right, everyone else is unidentified. This photographic negative was most likely taken at Reed College where Carlos was a student.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-one-1-354/

doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 35 No. 14 (October 3, 1952) (ddr-pc-24-40)

Selected article titles: "New 'look' for PC in Los Angeles with new staff and board in charge" (p. 1), "Many P.C. readers respond" (p. 2), "JACL continuance necessary: Masaoka" (p. 4), "NCWC immigration director defends Walter-McCarran Act at Seattle confab" (p. 5), "Nisei voting bloc in Hawaii unknown" (p. 8).

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img Japanese Americans playing cards at the fire station (ddr-densho-15-59)

This is the interior of Fire Station Number 1. Left to right: (first name unknown) Hikida, unidentified, Yoshio Akada, and Mr. Sano. The fire station was one of the few buildings with a refrigerator. Mr. Sano owned the bathhouse underneath the Panama Hotel in Seattle, Washington, before World War II.

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img Portrait of Shizuki Itahara and unidentified boy (ddr-ajah-6-506)

Caption below photo: At left is Shizuka Itahara, first born child of Yoshio Itahara and Hama Komatsu. He remained in Hiroshima, Japan when is parents immigrated to Alameda, CA., in 1902. Shizuka's American born sister (1914) was Fumiko "Nellie" Itahara. Younger boy is unknown. Photo taken in Hiroshima, Japan, circa 1920s

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img Takuritsu Morita with five young children standing by bi-plane (ddr-ajah-6-632)

Caption below photo: Takuritsu Morita, unknown children and biplane, circa 1919 to the mid 1920s. The wooden hangars resemble those at Durant Field in East Oakland, CA., in operation for a few years beginning in 1919; its site was soon developed replaced by factories. Location information courtesy Alameda historian Woody Minor.

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img Three men standing in yard (ddr-ajah-6-622)

Caption below photo: At right is Takuritsu Morita. The two other are probably from Oakland, CA., where Morita lived from 1915 to about 1919. After that he lived in Alameda, CA., until 1933. The unusually dressed Issei man at left appears in other photos from Morita's albums but remains unknown.

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img Yasuharu Koike standing on hill above barracks (ddr-ajah-2-851)

Caption below photo: Yasuharu Koike served with the MIS in the China-Burma-India campaign during WWII. Photo 1944. He was from Alameda, CA. Exact location of this photo is unknown, but it could be from the Oakland Army base where millions of tons of cargo were shipped during WWII.

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img Nakayama and Ozeki families aboard ship (ddr-ajah-6-753)

Caption below photo: Given her age and outfit, this is Hatsuyo's 1912 trip from Alameda to Japan at age 5. She will remain in Hiroshima until she is 17 years and 2 month old. Hanae and her brother, Min, also went to Japan on this same voyage. All three children went there be educated in Japan. …

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img Tomoye, Henri and unknown women standing in front of Golden Gate Bridge (ddr-densho-426-105)

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img Tomoye (Nozawa) Takahashi and unknown woman standing in doorway of log house (ddr-densho-426-2021)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-426-2021/

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