Yamashita Family Archives

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1945 1 1 Letter to Kay from someone in Gila about student reloc 3.jpg
Handwritten and informal, this letter from someone at Gila Camp worried about being able to close the camp and get people on their feet again, and the possibility that Niseis in school will have to drop out again to help their families. Also…

A2_ pg176.92-.94 date 1_1_45(?)_Page_1.jpg
Betty (fellow administrator at National Japanese American Student Relocation Council?) is glad that Kay will stay on until March with AFSC Student Relocation Council. She also says that the WRA has approved travel grants to students.

John Nason, president of Swarthmore College at the time, writes to Kay thanking her for her work staying on with the Student Relocation Council for a few more months.

1945 1 12 Letter from Kay to Bill _Page_2.jpg
A letter from Kay Yamashita to Bill Stevenson, a former colleague of hers, updating him on events in Philadelphia. She also includes information about her personal life, that her brother and two other family members have been drafted, and that she is…

Kay mentions how her brother, Tom, brother in law, Min, and nephew, Ted, have been inducted and in basic training. (Description not complete)

Kay worked or got an income from Sunway Fruit Company in Chicago, the YMCA in Chicago and AFSC in Philadelphia. She was also supporting her mom, Tomi Yamashita.

1945 1 19 Letter from Bill to Kay_Page_1.jpg
Bill discusses wartime disillusionment and the state of people in camp at the end of the war- for those who lost everything Bill asks where will they will move once the camps are closed and expresses concern for the situation that many will find…

Notebook A2 Page 187_11.4.45

From Sylvia and Goth) just signed card, Also a card from Josephin W. [Duveneck] cut off in scan

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1943 2 26 Letter from Kay to Martha at Wash U.pdf
A letter to Kay Yamshita from Martha, a Japanese-American college student whom Kay helped relocate to Washington University in St. Louis. Marhta descrives her journey to St. Louis and life at the university. She also descrives a committee set up by…

1943 3 27 Notice on action on leave clearance application, Kay.jpg
Kay is notified on March 27, 1943 that she has been cleared for indefinite leave in the Easter Defense Command. This notice does not authorize departure from camp. She must apply again to leave.

1943 5 1 Letter from Kay to Martha.pdf
A letter from Kay Yamashita at Topaz to a Martha at Poston. Kay tells about her life, describing her sister Iyo's marriage, her work with Student Relocaion and her plans to leave camp, going first to her brother Tom's graduation in Lincoln and then…

1943 5 6 Letter from Kay to Mrs. Duveneck.pdf
A letter (probably from Kay Yamashita) to Jospehine Duveneck, thanking her for a card she sent. The letter writer goes on to say that she plans to leave her internment camp for Chicago to visit her brother and look for work. She askss Duveneck for…

1944 10 20 Letter from Kay to Trudy.pdf
Kay Yamashita invites Trudy to come visit her in Philadelphia, but says that her younger brother (who is in the enlisted reserve)might be coming to visit her. Kay is happy about Nobu' newborn.

1945 11 4 Letter from McKee (AFSC) to Kay.pdf
William W McKee, the Executive Secretary of the American Friends Service Committee of Philadelphia Pennsylvania asks Kay if she would be interested in applying for a temporary position working with the Resettlement Committee on Japanese-Americans. …

1946 3 5 Letter from Kay ot War Dept.pdf
Kay applies to the War Department be a temporary Civil Service Employee for overseas work in Japan. Kay's work reference in Washington is Miss Helen Paul of the War Relocation Authority. She does not know what kind of jobs are available as a civil…
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