Yamashita Family Archives

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1942 7 6 Kay needs job start date to get a travel permit_Page_1.jpg

1942 7 3 Kay accepts position with D.C._Page_1.jpg

1942 7 11 Washington D.C. withdraws job for Kay.jpg

Undated letter from friend to Kay.pdf

1942, discarded writing found at Tanforan_Page_1.jpg
Kay found a discarded piece of writing in the trash at Tanforan, images/ vignettes of life there

1942 8 18 Kay to Morrises_Page_1.jpg
Kay shares the rumors about Tule Lake becoming completely run by the military, and current evacuees being moved out. She also thinks that the Bulletin, Application for Leave is a front/ deception to make it appear as though the evacuees are not help…

1942 8 28, Kay to Miss Kirven_Page_2.jpg
Personal update and also update about a survey that Miss Kirven gave to Kay to distribute and collect.

1942 8 30 Gerri House to Kay with transc_Page_2.jpg

1942 9 7 Kay to Caleb Foote_Page_1.jpg
On the closing of Tanforan, and a party put on by the administration, the army still had to perform a contriband inspection with twenty men before each room. They were so ashamed about doing the search on the last few days, that they barely looked at…

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Kay explains that Frida should make sure that others who see the letter she wrote understand that she doesn't think that Japanese Americans are not the only ones to suffer, but she refutes the claim that evacuation was based on military necessity and…

1942 9 7 Letter from Kay to Syl and Goth_Page_1.jpg
Kay writes "Life must be superficially normal out there too (that expression "out there" seems odd but, that's the way we've begun to think of the place beyond this Camp -- it's just somewhere absolutely apart from us-- we're just a world apart) She…

Ted has already gone to University of Colorado

1942 9 20 Letter from Margaret Fisher to Kay_74.3-74.5.pdf
Margaret Fisher tells Kay about friends of hers in Tanforan that she would like Kay to meet. She wanted to come visit Kay in Tanforan but had to take care of her ill mother.

Special Transfer Application_77-79.pdf
Tomi writes out a paragraph explaining her case to be reunited with her daughter, son in law and grandaughter and asking for them to be transferred to Topaz since the camps are becoming more permanent.

1943 10 13 Letter from Kay to Joe Goodman and friends 81-83.pdf
A letter from Kay Yamashita--recently transferred from Tanforan to the Central Utah Relocation Project--to Joe Goodman and other friends. She describes the new relocation center, which does not appear to be very nice. Kay has been working with…

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