Yamashita Family Archives

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1944 11 13 envelope only.jpg

1944 12 5 Envelope from Earl to Ed.pdf
Envelope and Note

1944 1 25 Letter from Earl to Ed_Page_1.jpg
Letter from Earl (at 1550 Loring Ave San Diego) to Ed at 4714 No. Talman Ave Chicago.

1944 3 10 Letter from Earl to Ed.pdf
Letter from Earl (in San Diego) to Ed in Ogden, Utah

Warehouse Storage Page 71.jpg
Letter (and envelope) from Eiko Sasaki (a fellow member of the Oakland Japanese Methodist Church) to John Yamashita

1945 12 4 Rhoads to Fort_Page_1.jpg
Esther Rhoads responds to Fort about a AFSC report that was published that was highly critical of WRA workers. She writes about the progress in opening up more than half of 30 hostels to Japanese Americans moving back to Southern California, the work…

1945 12 4 Rhoads to Morris.jpg
Rhoads writes to Morris, responding with her dismay at a report that was circulated from the Service Committee to hostel directors that was harsh or critical in tone (may have been about WRA workers or some service workers mistreating people? See…

1945 10 5 Rhoads to Fort _Page_1.jpg
Esther B. Rhoads, of the Southern California AFSC Branch based in Pasadena writes to the AFSC Philadelphia office. She expresses concerns that G. Raymond Booth is trying to pass federal legislation to keep the camps open. Rhoads thinks the Friends…

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1943 2 28 Church service, Evanston IL page 1.jpg
I believe that we have this document because John Yamashita got leave clearance to leave detention at Topaz and enter seminary school at Garrett Seminary in Evanston with the help of his mentor (Frank Herron Smith).

1945 5 23 Schmoe to Foote_Page_1.jpg

1942 2 2 AFSC Missoula alien detention center_Page_1.jpg
Floyd Schmoe reports to AFSC in Philadelphia about a visit to the Missoula, Montana detention center. He provides great detail about the camp and the organization, physical layout, family members visiting their fathers/husbands. He also makes…

WRA Hostel File Page 11.jpg
Letter sent from the Girl Scouts of America, local Oakland branch to the WRA which was then forwarded to all hostels in the area. Gertrude Hall writes inviting the hostels to send her a list of girls ages 7 to 16 who might be interested in joining…

1945 12 26 Nakamura to Morris (Peruvian Japanese)_Page_1.jpg
Nakamura writes to Morris about the Crystal City Detention Center in Texas where Peruvian nationals of Japanese ancestry are being held. Most of them have already been sent to Japan (prisoner exchanges?). The roughly 40 families who remain want to…

1942 5 27 Hirabayashi in jail to Tom Bodine.jpg

1942 11 27 Hirabayashi in jail to Art.jpg

1943 6 22 Hirabayahsi to Morris_Page_1.jpg

1943 8 28 Hirabayashi to Morris.jpg
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