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Rohwer Relocation Camp, Arkansas, c.1943 Yoshikawa Family Papers
Letter from Fujino Tashida to Claire D. Sprauge, 1942
Clair Sprauge Papers
Elizabeth Carden was teacher at Stockton High School. This collection includes letters from former students who were sent to the Japanese Relocation Camp at Rohwer, Arkansas. Her papers are part of the Small California Collections.
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Guy Cook was a vice-principal and teacher at Tri-State High School at the Tule Lake Relocation Camp near Newell, California. This collection contains correspondence, reports of the War Relocation Authority, memoranda, pamphlets, and clippings from camp newspapers.
Harold Jacoby was in charge of security at the Tule Lake internment camp. This collection includes War Relocation Authority reports, field notes, yearbooks, clippings, and other materials relating to Tule Lake and other camps.
Marie Mitsuda was relocated to the Rohwer Relocation Center, Arkansas, where she attended and graduated from High School. This collection consists mainly of materials generated during Mitsuda's time at the Rohwer Relocation Center, including Center and school materials, and reunion materials.
Frank Nakata Collection
Frank M. Nakata was relocated to Heart Mountain in Wyoming. The collection consists of letters that Nakata received from friends and families in other camps. Many of the letters come from his nephew Wataru Oye, who was drafted, and trained in Kansas.
Roy Nakatani was relocated to Granada Relocation Center in Amache, Colorado, where he served as a farm worker. His papers include correspondence, reports, business accounts, and documents on farm production at Granada. His papers are part of the Small California Collections.
Claire Sprague taught in Stockton public schools, where she worked with Japanese-American children at the time of their relocation to internment camps. This collection includes letters written to Sprague by her former students, interned Japanese-American sixth graders.
Stockton Assembly Center roster of movement of Japanese- American Internment evacuees from May 10-October 17, 1942. Small California Collections
The collection consists of materials from the Japanese- American Internment Rohwer Relocation Center and the Stockton Assembly Center, including newspapers, calendars, yearbooks, official paperwork for Japanese-Americans in the camps. Small California Collections
James Tanji was an internee at the Merced Assembly Center, and collected copies of center's newsletter, the Mercedian, from June-August, 1942.
Two posters both dated May 5, 1942 from San Francisco, California: civilian exclusion order No. 41, and “Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry” both from the Western Defense Command and Fourth Army referring to Japanese-American Internment. Small California Collections
Maps of Japanese-American Internment camps: Crystal City, Texas, Manzanar, California, Gila River, Arizona, Heart Mountain, Wyoming, Tule Lake, California, and Twin Falls, Idaho. Also, map of Stockton, California Assembly Center. Small California Collections
This collection documents the relocation experience of the Yoshikawa family from Stockton to the Rohwer Relocation Camp in Arkansas. It includes correspondence, personal papers, camp publications, and many photographs of camp life.
Eight oral histories conducted in the late 1990s with San Joaquin County Japanese-Americans who were part of the evacuation and relocation during World War II: Kaoru Ito (born 1904 and ran a sewing school), Miyo Fukano (born 1896 and was a housewife), Tetsuo Ted Ishihara (born 1905 and was a launderer and reporter), James Hajime Kurata (born 1918 and was a highway engineer), Aya Motoike (born 1907 and was a housewife), Lydia Haruko Ota (born 1923 and was a farmer), Chiyo Mitori Shimamoto (born 1921 and was a hair stylist), and Richard Shizuo Yoshikawa (born 1920 and was a photographer). Western Americana Tall E184.J3
Images of materials in the Japanese-American internment collections can be viewed through Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives, as well as the online finding aids of each individual collection.
