Yamashita Family Archives

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

Kay writes to John Nason, now the head of Carleton College, and mentions that she had wished that the National Student Relocation Council would have worked with a black group in 1943. She had proposed it "meekly" during one of her last meetings, but…

John Nason, president of Carleton College, responds to Kay's letter about her niece Karen planning to go to college. (A2.197-202_1.69)

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Fumi Yamashita charcoal drawing.jpg
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.

Hikota Yamashita charcoal drawing.jpg
Kishiro Yamashita commissioned this charcoal portrait of his father before Kishiro's death in 1931. Hikota was born in Naegi, Gifu (add dates).

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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.

1942 2 4 Booth to Pickett_Page_1.jpg
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 8 5 Cary to Duveneck.pdf
Letter about the role of protest

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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.

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1944 4 14 Conard to Morris_Page_1.jpg
Letter about a delegation of persons including UC administrators visiting Secreatary Ickes about putting forwards a resolution to make the WRA have a responsibility in resettlment.  They group wants this campaign to be quite private, without any…

1942 9 9 Duveneck to Cary_Page_1.jpg
Duveneck discusses Lincoln Kanai's case and his request for habeus corpus, and his imprisonment for six months for violating the freezing act.  Duveneck also responds to Cary's question about the role of protest, and if cooperating with the…

1944 4 21 Duveneck to Jones.jpg
Duveneck writes about her recent trip to Tule Lake. She wants someone from the Philadelphia AFSC to visit there on an ongoing basis, describes the people working there.

1945 5 22 Duv to Morris_Page_1.jpg

1942 9 11 King Trudy essay _Page_2.jpg

1942 7 1 King to Jones_Page_2.jpg

1942 8 18 King to Marnie_Page_1.jpg

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