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Title
Letter from W.O. Melton, Assistant Project Director, Jerome Relocation Center, to Family heads going to Tule Lake on May 17, May 13, 1944
Creator
United States. War Relocation Authority
Jerome Relocation Center (Ark.)
Melton, W. O.: author
Date Created and/or Issued
1944-05-13
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
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Description
Letter informing incercerees being transferred to Tule Lake camp that freight should be crated and ready for pick up on Thursday morning, May 16, 1944. All freight and checkable baggage is to be addressed and ready for pick up on that morning. Incarcerees are expected to load and handle all baggage as no freight crew is being supplied.
The Atsushi Art Ishida Collection is comprised of photographs, negatives, camp newspapers, WRA documents, memorabilia, and correspondence chronicling his time immediately after the exclusion order and during his incarceration in the Santa Anita Assembly Center in California, the Jerome camp in Arkansas, the Tule Lake camp in California, and the Minidoka camp in Idaho, as well as digital reproductions of photographs documenting his life in Japan and Artesia, California during the pre-war years and his time during the Korean War. The majority of the photographs in the collection were taken by Atsushi Art Ishida and he would often develop them in his room in the barracks where he had constructed a makeshift dark room in the camp. His photographs depict the life in the incarceration camps, capturing the buildings, such as barracks, guard towers, a hospital, fire station, and warehouse, the workers for farming, laundry, mess hall, and logging, and the sports games that the incarcerees played. Also photographed are the farewell scenes in which the incarcerees who were being transferred from the Jerome camp to the Tule Lake Segregation Center.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence
1 page, 11 x 8.5 inches, typescript
application/pdf
Identifier
ats_02_087
csudh_ats_0494
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/29506
Language
English
Subject
World War II--Resistance and dissidence--Segregation and Tule Lake
World War II--Administration--Registration and 'loyalty questionnaire
World War II--Administration--War Relocation Authority
Identity and values--Kibei
Identity and values--Nisei
World War II--Incarceration camps--The journey
Place
Denson, Arkansas
Incarceration Camps--Jerome
Incarceration Camps--Tule Lake
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c80c52x4/
Atsushi Art Ishida Collection

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