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Title
Letter from Takino and Teruo Hosaka to Hiroji Hosaka, April 5, 1942
Creator
Hosaka, Takino, 1892-1943: author
Hosaka, Teruo, 1928-2019: author
Date Created and/or Issued
1942-04-05
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
Letters from Takino and Teruo Hosaka to Hiroji Hosaka who had been interned in the Santa Fe Internment camp. Both letters informed him that the authorized form singed by him had arrived and gave him updates of themselves and their friends. The letter was censored.
Hiroji Hosaka Family Letters consists of correspondence between Hiroji Hosaka and his family and friends while he was imprisoned in the Santa Fe Detention Station, the Santa Anita Assembly Center, and the Heart Mountain incarceration camp during World War II. Also included are prewar photographs of the Daiichi Rafu Gakuen, that is, a Japanese language school in Los Angeles, and Japanese archery, a photograph of the Heart Mountain camp, and his business cards prior to the war.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence
2 pages, 7.75 x 6 inches, handwritten; 1 page, 6 x 7 inches, handwritten; 1 envelope
application/pdf
Identifier
hos_01_05_001
csudh_hos_0006
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/52631
Language
Japanese
English
Subject
World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--Preparation
World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--Japanese American community responses
Identity and values--Issei
Industry and employment--Hotel industry
Geographic communities--California--Los Angeles
Place
Los Angeles, California
Department of Justice Internment Camps--Santa Fe
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/c8t441dn/
Hiroji Hosaka Family Letters

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