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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, 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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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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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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TitleEstonian and Japanese women in front of doll display
Date Created1950
DescriptionA group of Estonian and Japanese women pose in front of a doll display in 1950, dressed in traditional costumes.
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleSatsujo Hashimoto and Tamako Mukushina on the Spinach sorting line
Date Created1950
DescriptionSatsujo Hashimoto and Tamako Mukushina working the sorting line, check spinach for defects.
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleSuzie signing up Minakata for class as Marian supervises
Date Created1950
DescriptionSuzie signing up Minakata for class as Marian supervises at Seabrook Farms.
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleHeading home (Image 1 of 5)
Date Created1952-09-02
DescriptionHeading home. Picture taken on September 2, 1952. Kaneyo Ogata is looking at the camera.
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleKids enjoying tree climbing
Date Created1950
DescriptionKids enjoying tree climbing at Seabrook Farms, New Jersey
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)