Forced removal and internment of Japanese Americans (1942-1945)

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Photograph of newspaper columnist Alfred Segal (in rocking chair) addressing a group of relocated Japanese Americans at the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) relocation hostel in Cincinnati, Ohio. WRA image number B-640.

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Photograph of Jobu Yasumura working the counter at a New York City grocery co-op. Yasumura also worked for the ABHMS Department of Cities at this time. WRA image number E-993.

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Collection consists items sent to Beverly Fink by her pen pal, Barbrara Eto, from the Poston internment camp: two letters (dated July 6, 1945 and July 31, 1945), a bird pin made by Barbara, and a photograph of Barbara.

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Letters to Emery Andrews from Alice Bixby, 1942-1947.

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Photograph of Japanese American children attending a bible school class at the Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati. WRA image number E-642.

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Selected correspondence of Tom and Betty Fukuyama, writings of Tom Fukuyama, and related articles and materials. Original physical records are held by the University of Washington as part of the Betty Fukuyama Papers.

Scope and Contents The Cynthia Kawanami Copeland Collection consists primarily of digitized photographs, printed materials, and personal correspondence belonging to Copeland's parents, Tokiko "Tish" Ishihara and Kiyoshi Kawanami, dating between the mid-1930s and 1950. Items include prewar photographs and documents of the Ishihara family, postwar photographs and correspondence, and a scrapbook kept by Kiyoshi Kawanami that documents his incarceration at Poston. The Collection also includes the original Kawanami...