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Title
Letter from Toshiko Horita to Joseph B. Howerton
Creator
Horita, Toshiko: author
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
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Description
A letter from Toshiko Horita (Okutsu) to Joseph B. Howerton, Assistant Chief for Reference, Industrial and Social Branch, Civil Archives Division, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration. The letter requests verification of the dates of her incarceration at Poston during World War II.
The Horita Family Papers (1940-2010, undated) collection contains documents from the Horita family, a Japanese American family from the Los Angeles area. The collection focuses on married couple Chitoshi "Harry" Horita (1896-1990) and Marue Nakashima Horita (1901-1982) and their extended family and includes records of the family's incarceration at the Poston (Colorado River) incarceration camp, research into the family's history, photographs, and correspondence.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence
1 page; typewritten; 8.5 x 11 inches
application/pdf
Identifier
hort_01_03_015
csudh_hort_0042
hort_01_03_015.pdf
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/61222
Language
English
Subject
Civil Liberties Act of 1988
Redress and reparations--Receiving redress check and apology
Identity and values--Nisei
World War II--Incarceration camps
Place
Monterey Park, California
Incarceration Camps--Poston (Colorado River)
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/c89311hv/
Horita Family Papers

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