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TitleBedminster - Buttermilk Falls Postcard, 1906

Date Created1906

DescriptionThis postcard is inscribed “Have I sent you one of these before? My favorite haunt. Expect to spend next Saturday and Sunday at Laura’s. School closes the 8th of June. Thanks for postal. Will hold...

Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)

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TitlePluckemin - Postcard to Mr. Joseph McMurtry, verso, 1909

Date Created1909

DescriptionThe postcard is addressed to Mr. Joseph McMurtry, Alexandria, Indiana (no postmark) and is inscribed “Pluckemin, NJ. Sept. 6, 1909. Chas.” Postcard No. B5461 was published by A. Owens, Pluckamin...

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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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)

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TitleLetter from the Roanoke Mayor

Date Created2015-11-18

DescriptionA November 2015 statement issued by David Bowers, the Democratic Mayor of Roanoke, Virginia, justifies barring Syrian refugees from resettlement in the city on the grounds that like Japanese...

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

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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)