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Title
Letter from Eiko Fujii to Fred S. Farr, June 15, 1942
Creator
Fujii, Eiko: author
Date Created and/or Issued
1942-06-15
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
The California Historical Society (CHS) has no information about copyright ownership for this item, and is not authorized to grant permission to publish or reproduce it. Copyright is assumed to be held by the original creator of the item. Unpublished works are expected to pass into the public domain 120 years after their creation; works published before 1923 have entered the public domain. Upon request, digitized works can be removed from public view if there are rights issues that need to be resolved.
Description
Letter from Eiko Fujii to Fred S. Farr written from Santa Anita Assembly Center, describing arrival and adjustment to life inside the camp. Fujii mentions washing, typhoid shots, children, meals, church services, work.
The collection contains seven letters to Farr from Japanese American friends from California incarcerated during World War II. Most of the letters are from Eiko Fujii, beginning shortly after her arrival at Santa Anita Assembly Center in 1942, continuing through her transfer to Denson, Ark., at Jerome incarceration camp, and ending after she left the camps and held a teaching position the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The letters discuss daily life in the camps and her family's physical, psychological, and emotional adjustment to life there; as well as references to Farr's personal and professional life. Also included are photographs collected by Fred S. Farr, depicting Japanese Americans traveling by train and an unidentified incarceration camp.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence
4 pages, 21.5 x 28 cm, handwritten
application/pdf
Identifier
MS-685_003
chs_685_003
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/49542
Language
English
Subject
World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')
World War II--Temporary Assembly Centers--Facilities, services, and camp administration
World War II--Temporary Assembly Centers--Food
World War II--Temporary Assembly Centers--Living conditions
World War II--Temporary Assembly Centers--Work and jobs
World War II--Temporary Assembly Centers--Impacts of incarceration
Identity and values--Nisei
Place
Arcadia, California
Temporary Assembly Centers--Santa Anita
Source
California Historical Society
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
Fred S. Farr correspondence and photographs

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