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Warehouse Storage Item 75-76
Mr. Wasuke Nabeshima (now living in Newell, California) writes to John asking for him to write to let him a receipt for the check that Mr. Nabeshima sent for his property shipment.
Warehouse Storage Item 77
Itemized bill for shipping stored items for large, medium and small amounts of stored property.
Warehouse Storage Item 78
Miscellaneous notes about refund
Warehouse Storage Item 79
Letter from John Yamashita to Mr. K Komatsu in reference to Frank Morita's letter contesting his status as having a large amount of storage at the Oakland Methodist Church. Having a large amount, increases his fees in getting his property sent to…
Warehouse Storage Item 80
Miscellaneous Notes
Warehouse Storage Item 81
Notes on storage items and people.
Warehouse Storage Item 82
List of names and addresses that have been crossed off. This may be a list of names that John and Ish Isokawa have contacted about their property stored at the Oakland Methodist Church.
Warehouse Storage Item 83
John Yamashita and Ish Isokawa who worked at setting up the hostel at the Japanese Methodist Church in Oakland, logged an inventory of the amount that people stored into the category of Large, Medium and Small stored amounts. They would also write…
Warehouse Storage Item 84
John Yamashita's notes on people who have stored items in the church. He records the amount they have stores (Small, Medium or Large), if they have paid to have the items shipped to them and if the hostel has sent an acknowledgment to them at their…
Warehouse Storage Item 85
Handwritten list. It appears that this is he payment amounts received from each of these individuals.
Warehouse Storage File Item 86
Notes on who lives in which room in the hostel, with crossed out names for those who have since left.
Warehouse Storage File Item 87
Notes on number of women vs men in hostel.
WRA Hostel Files Page 1 (Cover)
Front of manila file. With post-it notes written by Jane Boltz (in 2015), daughter of John Yamashita.
WRA Hostel File Page 2
Memo from Roscoe E. Bell, Assistant Project Director, to Mr. L. T. Hoffman, Project Director, forwarded to Mr. Hirano.
Bell states that John Yamashita will be returning to Oakland to the Methodist Church that hold property for some at Topaz. Bell…
Bell states that John Yamashita will be returning to Oakland to the Methodist Church that hold property for some at Topaz. Bell…
WRA Hostel Files page 3-8
List of Japanese families that live at Cordonices Village or Cordonices Housing Project, built to house military families during WWII and then converted to house families of UC Berkeley students, many of whom were veterans.…
WRA Hostel File page 9
Letter from Thomas J. Mahan, acting District Relocation Officer, informing hostel residents that the Relocation Office will be closing in April 1946. The Berkeley and Oakland Community Chests has donated funds to the International Institute of…
WRA Hostel File page 10
Robert Feldhammer, District Relocation Officer, writes to the hostel letting them know that Richmond Housing Project has openings of 1, 2, and 3 bedroom apartments for Japanese Americans without military service to apply.
WRA Hostel File Page 11
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…
WRA Hostel File page 12-13
Contract between the War Relocation Authority and John Yamashita about how the hostel should be operated. The WRA will allow this hostel to use government property (cots and mattresses) from May 1, 1945 to Dec 31, 1945. John agrees not to…
WRA Hostel File page 14
Letter from Oakland Methodist Church Hostel (Ichiro Isokawa) to Alameda Methodist Church Hostel (Mr. Akamatsu) about an extension from the WRA on loans of cots and mattresses.