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1944 5 22 AFSC San Francisco discussing Japanese American returning to Northern California after camp
Lays out a plan of action to house returning Japanese Americans in hostels, discusses the feelings of black people in the neighborhood about this return.
1942 8 5, Letter from Cary to Duveneck
Letter about the role of protest
1942 2 4 Letter from Booth to Pickett
Letter talks about the growing hysteria in Los Angeles and the meetings between top officials. Some law enforcements officials are asking for the removal of all people of Japanese ancestry from the Pacific Coast. Booth considers all of the leaders to…
1942 4 3 Letter from Booth to Eisenhower
Personnel search Letter to War Relocation Authority official in SF. Letter to WRA official, Milton S. Eisenhower in San Francisco. Seems to be about filling the position of Consulting Psychologist, since one guy is leaving to go to France.
Hikota Yamashita Portrait (aka Sadashige) in Charcoal, circa 1920s.
Kishiro Yamashita commissioned this charcoal portrait of his father before Kishiro's death in 1931. Hikota was born in Naegi, Gifu (add dates).
Fumi Yamashita Portrait
According to Sus' writing on the box, Kishiro asked for these portraits to be drawn. Ken think Sus retrieved them in Naegi on one of this trips to Japan. Since Kishiro died in 1931, the portraits of his parents must have been made before then.
1945 1 19 Letter from Bill (Stevenson?) to Kay
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…
1945 1 12 Letter from Kay to Bill Stevenson
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…