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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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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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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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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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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)
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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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TitleWounded Japanese veterans at Seabrook
Date Created1942-1959
DescriptionJohnny "Pineapple" Kubota, Michi Nishiura, and Richard Ouchi pose for a picture at Seabrook. Kubota, on the left, lost his leg fighting in Italy and, after the war, convalesced in Atlantic City before...