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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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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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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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TitleThanksgiving November, 22, 1949

Date Created1949-11-22

DescriptionThanksgiving feast at the Child Care Center.

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TitleSeabrook School, December 2, 1952.

Date Created1952

DescriptionSchool crossing guard hard at work.

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Title127 newly naturalized citizens take an oath as new citizens in the auditorium of the Seabrook Community House, June 25, 1953

Date Created1953-06-25

DescriptionJapanese-American Citizens' League naturalization class

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

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TitleI remember Seabrook: The bookmobile and other memories

AuthorHerold, Emiko A. Noguchi

Date Created1999-06

DescriptionIn this "I remember" memoir, Emiko Noguchi Herold recalls her childhood years at Seabook. She remembers the bookmobile that would arrive every 2 weeks with library books. Emiko's mother worked in the...

Time Period1945, 1961

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TitleDay Camp, 1952

Date Created1952

DescriptionPlaying in the sand.

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TitleRemembrances of Seabrook Village of the 1950s: A newspaper boy's view

AuthorNoguchi, Rei R.

Date Created1994-01-15

DescriptionIn this "I remember" memoir, Rei R. Noguchi outlines in detail the paper route he used to take to deliver newspapers throughout Seabrook Village. Every building, neighborhood, and field he remembers...

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970), 1945, 1962