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TitleLetter from Harry C. Smalley, Principal of Bridgeton High School, to H. Leon Yager, WRA, May 25, 1945
Date Created1945-05-25
DescriptionA letter from the principal of Bridgeton High School, Harry C. Smalley, praises Japanese American students and the ease with which they have been assimilated into the student body. Smalley claims that...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleLetter from the Roanoke Mayor
Date Created2015-11-18
DescriptionA November 2015 statement issued by David Bowers, the Democratic Mayor of Roanoke, Virginia, justifies barring Syrian refugees from resettlement in the city on the grounds that like Japanese...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleLetter from Cecil Roach
Date Created1945-06-27
DescriptionCecil Roach fell ill after coming to the United States as a guestworker, and (illegally) went to Boston to receive care from his sister there. In this letter addressed to President Truman, Roach...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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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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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 the American Civil Liberties Union
Date Created1945-06-08
DescriptionThe Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) contacted the ACLU to express concern that Seabrook Farms might develop into a de facto relocation center if too many Japanese Americans were sent there....
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitlePeapack, Four Scenes Postcard, 1908 - verso (see also: recto)
Date Created1908
DescriptionInscription reads "Am spending a few days at Peapack & Gladstone. Have seen some beautiful places today - drove for a couple of hours or more. Hope all are well. Ella." Postmarked Gladstone, Sept. 5,...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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TitlePeapack, Four Scenes Postcard, 1908 - recto (see also verso)
Date Created1908
DescriptionHandwriting in pencil identifies the top left as St. Luke's (Episcopal Church), top right as Presbyterian (it's actually the Reformed Church), bottom left as "Med" (Methodist) Church, and bottom right...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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TitlePeapack - Smith Picnic Grounds Postcard, 1905
Date Created1905
DescriptionThe postcard shows the speaker’s stand on the Smith Picnic Grounds near Peapack, NJ, dated August 31, 1905. A large sign behind the stand says, “In Memory of Our Ancestors”. Inscribed “Fine....
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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TitleBedminster - Buttermilk Falls Postcard, 1906
Date Created1906
DescriptionThis postcard is inscribed “Have I sent you one of these before? My favorite haunt. Expect to spend next Saturday and Sunday at Laura’s. School closes the 8th of June. Thanks for postal. Will hold...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)