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Title
Letter from Carson Estate Company to Mr. A. [Al] G. Hemming, May 12, 1942
Creator
Carson Estate Company: author
Date Created and/or Issued
1942-05-12
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
Permission to publish the image must be obtained from the CSUDH Archives as owner of the physical item and copyright. In instances when the copyright ownership is not clear it is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain copyright permission.
Description
Letter refers to enclosures of lease agreements. Requests clarification on a new agreement for Lease #13 to new tenant and the cancellation of Leases #13-A and #13-B for Japanese American farmers. Handwritten responses on the document clarify the letter with "yes, this [is] a combination of 13 A & 13 B. Cancel The Japs." Refers to the mass removal ("evacuation") of persons of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast as directed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 9066. Lease #13 A is Item 1969-I.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence
1 page, typescript with annotations
application/pdf
Identifier
1969-G
csudh_rsp_0860
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/4337
Language
English
Subject
Farm tenancy
Industry and employment--Agriculture
Japanese American farmers--California
Land tenure--Law and legislation--California
World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
Rancho San Pedro Collection

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