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Ishigo (Estelle) papers

Owning Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library

About this Collection

Estelle (Peck) Ishigo (1899- ) was born in Oakland, California. She attended Otis Art Institute where she met and married San Franciscan Nisei, Arthur Ishigo (ca. 1929). Following Pearl Harbor, both were fired from their jobs and Arthur was ordered to a concentration camp. Estelle voluntarily accompanied him, and they were eventually assigned to Heart Mountain concentration camp in Wyoming. Estelle documented life at the camp through her artwork. The collection consists of documents, records, correspondence, photographs, paintings, pencil drawings and sketches, and watercolor sketches related to Estelle Ishigo's life in the Pomona Assembly Center, California and the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming. There is also material related to the Ishigo's postwar resettlement in Southern California. View collection guide.

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402 items found in this collection

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Letter, 1952 April 4, Washington, D.C. to Mrs. Estelle Ishigo, Los Angeles, ...
Letter, 1952 January 8, Los Angeles, Calif. to Mr. Arthur Ishigo, Hawthorne, ...
Letter, 1952 June 16, Washington, D.C. to Mrs. Estelle Ishigo, Los Angeles, ...
Letter, 1952 June 24, Washington, D.C. to Mrs. Estelle Ishigo, Los Angeles, ...
Letter, 1952 March 30, Los Angeles, Calif. to Mr. King
Letter, 1952 March 7, Los Angeles, Calif. to President Truman
Letter, 1952 May 14, Los Angeles, Calif. to Holmes Baldridge, Washington, D.C
Letter, 1952 May 14, Los Angeles, Calif. to Honorable Cecil R. King, ...
Letter, 1952 May 23, Washington, D.C. to Mrs. Estelle Ishigo, Los Angeles, ...
Letter, 1953 Aug. 4, Los Angeles, Calif. to Congressman Cecil R. King, ...
Letter, 1953 August 20, Washington, D.C. to Mrs. Estelle Ishigo, Los Angeles, ...
Letter, 1953 December 10, to Honorable Cecil R. King, Washington, D.C
Letter, 1953 December 21, Washington, D.C. to Mr. J. Allan Frankel, Los ...
Letter, 1953 July 28, Washington, D.C. to Mrs. Arthur Ishigo, Los Angeles, ...
Letter, 1953 May 27, Los Angeles, Calif. to Honorable Herbert Brownell
Letter, 1953 Nov. 9, Washington D.C. to Mrs. Estelle Ishigo, Los Angeles, ...
Letter, 1953 October 22, Los Angeles, Calif. to Hon. Warren E. Burger, ...
Letter, 1954 April 5, to Mrs. Estelle Ishigo, Los Angeles, Calif
Letter, 1954 August 2, Washington, D.C. to Mrs. Estelle Ishigo, Los Angeles, ...
Letter, 1954 February 15, Los Angeles, Calif. to Honorable Cecil R. King, ...
Letter, 1954 February 15 to Hon. Sam Yorty, Washington, D.C
Letter, 1954 February 15, to Mr. Mike Masaoka, Washington, D.C
Letter, 1954 June 23, Los Angeles, Calif. to Mr. Mike M. Masaoka, ...
Letter, 1954 June 23, Los Angeles, Calif. to Senator Thomas H. Kuchel, ...
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