Gallery Karen Leong afterglow player Hiroshi Motomura afterglow player Nancy Ukai afterglow player Alice Yang afterglow player Megan Asaka afterglow player Nicole Sintetos afterglow player Koji Ozawa afterglow player Barbara Takei afterglow player Letter from Ruth Watanabe to Elizabeth Page Harris – 1 July 1944 Watercolor of Topaz Valley, Utah By Charles Erabu “Suiko” Mikami Watercolor Painting of Topaz Camp in Delta, Utah By unidentified artist; possibly Charles “Suiko” Mikami Today We Follow, Tomorrow We Lead 1943 Senior edition yearbook, Tri-State High School, Tule Lake Letter from Keikichi Imamura to Walter Millsap – 11 October 1942 Discusses reading James Truslow Adams’ The Epic of America, which coined the term “The American Dream.” Our World Yearbook Manzanar War Relocation Center High School, 1943-1944 Ansel Adams at Manzanar Landscape photographer Ansel Adams visited Manzanar four times to document life at camp. Postcard from Tori and Kengo Tajima to Elizabeth Page & Friends, September 15, 1945 “Japanese near Trains During Relocation” Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration Letter from Elizabeth Page to Mrs. Kishi, July 21, 1943 Camp Harmony Newsletter Issued in both English and Japanese at Puyallup Assembly Center Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry General John L. DeWitt’s order of forced evacuation from the West Coast Letter from Richard Nishimoto to Elizabeth Page, June 19, 1942 Nishimoto was one of the prolific letter writers from camps. The Japanese Evacuation and the Minority Problem Pamphlet by Samuel Nagata, illustration by Miné Okubo Letter from Ruth Watanabe to Elizabeth Page, September 26, 1942 Watanabe describes her arrival at Granada War Relocation Center and her immediate impressions of the camp. Postcard from Ruth Watanabe to Elizabeth Page, September 30, 1942 Watanabe describes her release from camp to attend college on the East Coast. Letter from Ruth Watanabe to Elizabeth Page Harris – 7 June 1942 Campus Echoes Yearbook Parker Valley High School, Poston, 1944-1945 Tanforan Totalizer Newspaper July 11, 1942 edition Photograph of Fumi Yebisu (neé Satoda) and Friends by Yonekazu Satoda Taken outside the Satoda family’s barrack in Jerome Letter from Walter Millsap to Imamura Family – 11 June 1944 Walter Millsap discusses the Imamura Family’s impending release from Gila River War Relocation Center. Postcard from Keikichi Imamura to Walter Millsap – 29 July 1944 Keikichi Imamura describes his family’s resettlement in a hostel in New York and a visit to Coney Island with his son Keichi. “Army Revokes West Coast Exclusion Order” Pacific Citizen – December 23, 1944 “Life at Poston” Los Angeles Times Article – June 8, 1943 Photographs of Poston by Poston teacher Mary Burford Courage Poston Toy Loan Library Photograph by Poston teacher Mary Burford Courage Request for Letter of Reference for Imamuras From the Committee on Resettlement of Japanese Americans Handmade watercolor Christmas card From Poston Agricultural Department “Life in Manzanar Block” Manzanar Free Press, April 25, 1942 Outcasts! The Story of America’s Treatment of Her Japanese-American Minority Booklet by Caleb Foote and the Fellowship of Reconciliation How to Relocate Through a Hostel Pamphlet by American Baptist Home Mission Society, American Friends Service Committee, and Brethren Service Committee When You Leave the Relocation Center WRA pamphlet regarding resettlement Fresno Grapevine Vignette A pictorial record of life in Fresno Assembly Center Watercolor drawing by James Miyasaki Poston classroom scene Cartoon strips by Keichi Imamura Drawn by 11-year-old Keichi Imamura Postcard from Ruth Watanabe to Elizabeth Page Harris – 30 September 1942 1944 Poston Chronicle Calendar Compiled and illustrated by Noboru Yamakoshi Charter of the Community of Poston 1943 Charter for community government at Poston Letter from Ruth Watanabe to Elizabeth Page Harris – 10 September 1942 Junior Red Cross Scrapbook Poston I Elementary School, 1944 Letter from Private Yumiji Higashi to Elizabeth Page Harris – 12 December 1942 Keichi Imamura Sketch of Camp Hand-drawn map of Gila River Heart Mountain Relocation Project Study committee for the opening of the West Coast “Extra: Manzanar Riot,” Daily News, Los Angeles News article on December 6, 1942 Manzanar riot Plot Plan – Reception Center, Unit No. 3 Oversized map of Poston Letter from Ruth Watanabe to Edythe Backus – May 17, 1942 Letter from Ruth Watanabe to Edythe Backus – 9 June 1942 Letter from Ruth Watanabe to Elizabeth Page Harris – 3 June 1942 Letter from Ruth Watanabe to Elizabeth Page Harris – 5 September 1942 Letter from Ruth Watanabe to Elizabeth Page Harris – 5 September 1942 Letter from Ruth Watanabe to Elizabeth Page Harris – 20 September 1942 Letter from Ruth Watanabe to Edythe Backus – 30 July 1942 Letter from Ruth Watanabe to Elizabeth Page Harris – 30 August 1942 Letter from Ruth Watanabe to Edythe Backus – 21 August 1942 Letter from Ruth Watanabe to Mrs. Shafer – 9 July 1942 Letter from Ruth Watanabe to Edythe Backus – 21 June 1942 Letter from Taketa to Elizabeth Page Harris – 14 March 1942
Watercolor Painting of Topaz Camp in Delta, Utah By unidentified artist; possibly Charles “Suiko” Mikami
Letter from Keikichi Imamura to Walter Millsap – 11 October 1942 Discusses reading James Truslow Adams’ The Epic of America, which coined the term “The American Dream.”
Ansel Adams at Manzanar Landscape photographer Ansel Adams visited Manzanar four times to document life at camp.
Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry General John L. DeWitt’s order of forced evacuation from the West Coast
Letter from Richard Nishimoto to Elizabeth Page, June 19, 1942 Nishimoto was one of the prolific letter writers from camps.
The Japanese Evacuation and the Minority Problem Pamphlet by Samuel Nagata, illustration by Miné Okubo
Letter from Ruth Watanabe to Elizabeth Page, September 26, 1942 Watanabe describes her arrival at Granada War Relocation Center and her immediate impressions of the camp.
Postcard from Ruth Watanabe to Elizabeth Page, September 30, 1942 Watanabe describes her release from camp to attend college on the East Coast.
Photograph of Fumi Yebisu (neé Satoda) and Friends by Yonekazu Satoda Taken outside the Satoda family’s barrack in Jerome
Letter from Walter Millsap to Imamura Family – 11 June 1944 Walter Millsap discusses the Imamura Family’s impending release from Gila River War Relocation Center.
Postcard from Keikichi Imamura to Walter Millsap – 29 July 1944 Keikichi Imamura describes his family’s resettlement in a hostel in New York and a visit to Coney Island with his son Keichi.
Request for Letter of Reference for Imamuras From the Committee on Resettlement of Japanese Americans
Outcasts! The Story of America’s Treatment of Her Japanese-American Minority Booklet by Caleb Foote and the Fellowship of Reconciliation
How to Relocate Through a Hostel Pamphlet by American Baptist Home Mission Society, American Friends Service Committee, and Brethren Service Committee
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