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TitleI remember teaching at Seabrook School

AuthorDougherty, Olive

Date Created1940-1990

DescriptionIn this "I remember" memoir, Olive Dougherty, a second-grade teacher from Seabrook School, recalls her past students. She enjoyed teaching at Seabrook because of her exposure to diverse cultures and...

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TitleMap of 10 relocation centers.

Date Created1942

DescriptionThis map shows the location of the ten internment camps in relationship to the Military Zone on the West Coast where "evacuation" was mandatory. The military believed that the West Coast, which...

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

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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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TitleGila River Relocation Camp, Arizona.

Date Created1940-1945

DescriptionPictured is the Gila River Relocations Camp in which Yoshiko Hasegawa and her family lived before arriving at Seabrook Farms.

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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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TitleJohn Nykun posing with 'Little Tokio' sign, Great Meadows, New Jersey, April 13, 1944.

Date Created1944-04-13

DescriptionParoled internees had to contend with hostile receptions in many places. White residents of Great Meadows, NJ, including the soldier shown here, protested farmer George Kowalick's decision to hire...

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

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TitleRepresentatives from the Jerome Relocation Commission in Arkansas

Date Created1941-1949

DescriptionEllen Nakamura, featured in the center of this photograph. The brick buildings and greenery of Seabrook Farms presented a sharp contrast to the barracks and desert-like conditions of the internment...

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

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TitleEllen Nakamura photograph

Date Created1950-1955

DescriptionEllen Nakamura, who had been interned at the Jerome Relocation Center in Arkansas, served as a recruitment scout for Seabrook Farms. She regularly communicated with H. Leon Yager, the WRA official in...

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)