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TitlePackage of dried Rosemary from the garden of the Botto House
Date Created1908
DescriptionThe Bottos grew rosemary, sage and mint in their garden. Herbs were used for personal hygiene and health purposes as well as for cooking. For example, Piedmontese immigrants used rosemary as a...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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TitleDeed, Aaron and Jane Newkirk to Jacob D. Van Winkle, 1819
Date Created1819
DescriptionDeed for parcel of land in the Township of Bergen, now part of Jersey City. The property is described in relation to neighbors and a "white oak tree" rather than streets or lot numbers, indicating how...
Time PeriodExpansion and Reform (1801-1861)
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TitleFighting for the Right to Act in New Jersey [report], 1992
AuthorEngler, Rick
Date Created1992
DescriptionA report on the nation's first state labor/environmental ''right-to-act" legislative campaign to win new rights for workers and neighbors to prevent toxic and other hazards. This report documents the...
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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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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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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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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)
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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)