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TitlePluckemin, Kenilworth Inn postcard 1906 verso
Date Created1906
DescriptionPostcard of the Kenilworth Inn, Pluckemin, postmarked Sept. 20, 1906 addressed to Mrs. A. L. Field, Ave. E & 48 St., Bayonne, New Jersey. Text on front reads "Compliments of Mrs. J. D. Field. Wishes...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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TitlePluckemin, Kenilworth Inn postcard 1906
Date Created1906
DescriptionPostcard of the Kenilworth Inn, Pluckemin, postmarked Sept. 20, 1906 addressed to Mrs. A. L. Field, Ave. E & 48 St., Bayonne, New Jersey. Text on front reads "Compliments of Mrs. J. D. Field. Wishes...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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TitlePluckemin, Echo Lake postcard 1906 verso
Date Created1906
DescriptionPostcard of Echo Lake in Pluckemin, postmarked May 8, 1906 and addressed to Mrs. Caleb Peelle, 845 Gates Ave., Brooklyn NY. Text reads "This lake is at the end of the golf links just a few minutes...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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TitleLetter from Aitken to Seabrook
Date Created1944-05-06
DescriptionThis letter, from Bridgeton Mayor Bertram F. Aitken to C.F. Seabrook, discusses why town officials preferred relocated Japanese Americans to “the undesirable southern Negro labor.” Racist...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleTranscript of Memorandum to the Peruvian ambassador
Date Created1942-04-18
DescriptionA memo from the U.S. Embassy in Peru to the Peruvian Ambassador in Washington exemplifies widely-held beliefs that ethnic Japanese in the Americas were unassimilable. The letter contends that as "an...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleLetter from the American Civil Liberties Union
Date Created1945-06-08
DescriptionThe Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) contacted the ACLU to express concern that Seabrook Farms might develop into a de facto relocation center if too many Japanese Americans were sent there....
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleTyped transcript of letter to Helen Sater, U.S. Dept. of Labor, November 6, 1943
Date Created1943-11-06
DescriptionIn this letter, a white woman residing at Seabrook writes that although she and other workers had been promised free housing at Seabrook, the company was now attempting to charge them. The company's...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleLetter from Mary Dyckman to NJ Dept of Health, August 11, 1944
Date Created1944-08-11
DescriptionA letter from Mary Dyckman, President of the New Jersey Consumers League, to Dr. Julius Levy, a state health official, details sanitary conditions at the camps and notes racial discrimination in the...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleLetter from Cecil Roach
Date Created1945-06-27
DescriptionCecil Roach fell ill after coming to the United States as a guestworker, and (illegally) went to Boston to receive care from his sister there. In this letter addressed to President Truman, Roach...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleLetter from Harry C. Smalley, Principal of Bridgeton High School, to H. Leon Yager, WRA, May 25, 1945
Date Created1945-05-25
DescriptionA letter from the principal of Bridgeton High School, Harry C. Smalley, praises Japanese American students and the ease with which they have been assimilated into the student body. Smalley claims that...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)