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Itsuhei Takano camp journal
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2019-033
Abstract
The collection is comprised of seven volumes of the author's accounts from the time of the Attack on Pearl Harbor, during the mass removal and incarceration, and after being released from the Gila River camp. The collection documents his observation and thoughts on a variety issues during the war and the postwar time. Also included are some issues from the Gila River Co-op newsletters, which contain his essays, and Japanese translations of two English announcements presumably made by Captain...
Dates:
1941 December 7-1946 March 19
Tawa Family Letters
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2022-021
Abstract
The collection consists of mainly letters to Sukegoro and Chiyoko Tawa from their family and friends between the 1920s and 1960s. Also included are wartime documents issued during the Tawas' incarceration and copies of Sukegoro Tawa's case file as well as family and friends' portraits, and haiku poems.
Dates:
circa 1920-1960
Tomoji Wada Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2019-029
Abstract
This collection contains materials regarding Tomoji Wada’s business on Terminal Island, California, immigration materials, and incarceration camp records pertaining to Tomoji Wada and his family. Included are taxes, receipts of expenses, and ledgers, receipts for his donations to Japanese American organizations, photographs, journals, notebooks, books, a metal seal stamp for Terminal Island Credit Union, immigration documents of Tomoji and Kan Wada, WRA documents, and wood carving tools and...
Dates:
1903-2016; undated
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- Japan -- Emigration and immigration -- History 2
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- Japanese -- California, Southern -- History 1
- Japanese Americans -- California, Southern 1
- Terminal Island (Calif.) 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- United States 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Japanese 1 ∧ less
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- Poston Incarceration Camp 2
- Gila River Incarceration Camp 1
- Santa Anita Assembly Center (Calif.) 1
- Takano, Itsuhei, 1887-1967 1
- Wada, Joe, 1930-2013 1
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