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TitleThe Closing of the Kabuki Theatre at the Poston Arizona Relocation Center
Date Created1942-1944
DescriptionClosing of the Kabuki Theater in Poston Arizona Relocation Center Camp II, where Sunkie Tazumi Oye and her family performed during their internment at the camp from September 1942 to June 1944.
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleSunkie Tazumi and her friends posing for the dance Kappore c. 1936
Date Created1936
DescriptionL-R Sunkie Tazumi, Fumi Onitsuka and Anna Mae Fujino posing for the dance Kappore, c. 1936. They later performed this and other dances at the Kabuki theater during their internment in the Poston...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleCharles F. Seabrook
Date Created1950-1960
DescriptionCharles F. Seabrook was the chairman and founder of Seabrook Farms. During World War II, he fought vigorously to convince the government to release Japanese internees from the internment camps so...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleCWRIC flyer
Date Created1981
DescriptionAfter extensive lobbying undertaken by Nisei activists and their third-generation children, in 1980 Congress created the Committee on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians to investigate the...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970), Contemporary America (1968-present)
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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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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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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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TitleMichi Nishiura visiting Glen Gardner Sanatorium
Date Created1950
DescriptionMichi Nishiura, a Seabrook farms resident was originally from the Gila River Relocation Camp. While in college she worked as a disc jockey in the factory office that played music throughout the...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleEvacuation claims (Image 2 of 4)
Date Created1951
DescriptionSam Seno of the Japanese American Citizens League (left) assists Masuichi Kamikawa (2nd from left) and other employees file claims for losses resulting during their evacuation to internment camps...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)