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Title: Forget-Me-Nots, a social club at Manzanar
Creator: Nomura, Shiro: curator
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1985
Contributing Institution: California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection: CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information: Materials held by the Eastern California Museum may be subject to copyright. All requests for permission to publish must be submitted to the Eastern California Museum as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. For further information, please email the museum at ecmuseum@inyocounty.us. Please include the Object ID from the "Description" in your email.
Description: Exhibit panel titled "Forget-Me-Nots, a social club at Manzanar. Panel includes a photocopied photograph of eleven young women in two rows, identified as the Forget-Me-Nots, a young women's social club at Manzanar. A Label names each of the women in the photo. Also included is a dance card listing time slots for 10 dances, and identifying honored guest Shiro Nomura. The Eastern California Museum Object ID for this item is 1994.80.57.
A collection of panel collages created by Shiro and Mary Nomura, both of whom were incarcerated at Manzanar from 1942-1945, for the Eastern California Museum's Manzanar Project. The panels are comprised of photographs, artifacts, documents, and stories collected by "Shi" starting in the 1970s. Over the following 20 years, the Nomuras assembled more than 75 panels depicting their personal interpretation of Manzanar 'camp' life, major events, history, and site preservation efforts. In each panel Shi and Mary provide valuable first-person documentation from their experiences. These panels have been displayed at various community events, annual Manzanar Pilgrimages, and the Eastern California Museum (the permanent home of the collection).
Type: image
Format: Physical objects
1 page, 11 x 8.5 inches
image/jpeg
Identifier: ecm_nom_5200
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/56982
Language: English
Subject: World War II--Incarceration camps
World War II--Incarceration camps--Social and recreational activities
Identity and values--Women
Place: Manzanar, California
Incarceration Camps--Manzanar
Source: Eastern California Museum
Relation: California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
Shiro and Mary Nomura Collection

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