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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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TitleLetter from H. Leon Yager to Ellen Noguchi Nakamura, December 26, 1944

Date Created1944-12-26

DescriptionBy December 1944, 817 internees had been released to Seabrook Farms. The total number would exceed 2,500, although many Issei and Nisei returned to California after the war's end.

Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)

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TitleEllen Nakamura, Notice of Assignment and Discharge Papers

Date Created1944-08-31

DescriptionAs a Relocation Guidance Committee Secretary, Nakamura received $19 a month in wages.

Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)

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TitlePersonal sketch of 2nd Lieutenant Charles A. Dunn

Date Created1868-1890

DescriptionTells the personal memories of the Civil War. Item found in mylar, originally in three pieces. (Stryker’s Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War reveals no sign of a 2nd...

Time PeriodCivil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

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TitleNotice of Dissolution of Partnership, 1897.

Date Created1892-01-13

DescriptionA notice of voluntary dissolution of partnership between William Reed and Clarence Randolph, Jamuary 13th, 1897. From that point forward, William Reed would be the sole owner of the book and...

Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)

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TitleBoard of Trade Application, 1892

Date Created1892-04-20

DescriptionWilliam Reed and Clarence Randolph's application to the Board of Trade, April 20, 1892.

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.