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TitleRenewal of Contracts Memo
Date Created1944-11-15
DescriptionWorking conditions, housing, and wages at Seabrook Farms often failed to meet the expectations of migrant guestworkers. As this memo from November 1944 details, of the 97 Barbadian workers at Seabrook...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleBarbadian Workers Deportation Order
Date Created1945-08-17
DescriptionA letter from the WMC to the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization instructs officers with the agency to arrest and send the Barbadians who left their contracts to Florida for deportation.
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleLetter regarding release from Seabrook Farms [sic]
Date Created1947-09-08
DescriptionIn September 1947, Takeda was released to the custody of his attorney Wayne Collins, a leading civil liberties lawyer who represented both Nisei and Japanese Peruvians. Collins arranged for Takeda to...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleLetter regarding cancellation of renunciation of citizenship
Date Created1958-10-29
DescriptionIt took until 1958 for the federal courts to reach a decision in Takeda's case. A letter from Collins notes that in the end, the judge ruled that Takeda's renunciation of his citizenship was never...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleAlien registration card
Date Created1947-09-08
DescriptionSenichiro Takeda renounced his U.S. citizenship in protest of his incarceration. In September 1947, still detained at Tule Lake, he was issued an alien registration card.
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleMemo on German POWs
AuthorSeabrook, J. M.
Date Created1944-06-17
DescriptionSeabrook Farms acquired 150 German prisoners of war who were being held at a former Civilian Conservation Corps camp in nearby Parvin State Park. Seabrook issued strict guidelines to its employees on...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleThos. A. Edison's Kinetoscope: Edison's Masterpiece.
Date Created1894
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TitleCameragraph
Date Created1904
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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TitleStatement of findings Newark, Essex CountyPabst Brewery Site petition
Date Created2005
DescriptionReview of the December 16, 2005 petition submitted by the West Ward Neighborhood, Newark, Essex County.
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TitleTypes of traffic circles and grade separations designed for the New Jersey state highway system
Date Issued1932
DescriptionOverview document with illustrations describing 22 New Jersey highway traffic circles and grade separations between 1920 and 1930. Document was designed by New Jersey Highway Department for the New...