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Title
Lil Dan'l: one year in a relocation center
Creator
Rohwer Outpost: publisher
Akimoto, George: editor and artist
Date Created and/or Issued
1943
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
Contact California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Description
Lil Dan'l was Rohwer's mascot; the booklet records the "little tragedies and minor comedies" of people's first year in the Rohwer incarceration camp in text and images whose lighthearted tone is often at odds with the content being presented. Topics include people's arrival from Santa Anita and Stockton; first impressions of life at the camp; furniture; fuel shortages; sports; clothing allowance; winter and summer in Arkansas; Queen Contest and Coronation Ball; the first holiday season in Rohwer, with mention of Christmas and New Year's; women's and children's activities; victory gardens; hunting kobu and mushrooms; dances; putting up wallboards in one's living quarters; and Familiar Sights, which include images of waiting and eating at the canteen, doing laundry, enlisting for military service, and newspapers.
The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications.
Type
text
Format
Booklets
28 pages, typescript; 7 x 8.5 in.
application/pdf
Identifier
sac_jaac_9951
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/391
Language
English
Subject
World War II--Incarceration camps
World War II--Incarceration camps--Incarcerees
World War II--Incarceration camps--Publications
World War II--Temporary Assembly Centers
World War II--Incarceration camps--Food
World War II--Incarceration camps--Living conditions
World War II--Incarceration camps--Social and recreational activities
Community activities--Recreational activities--Mushroom picking
World War II--Incarceration camps--Sports
World War II--Incarceration camps--Holidays and festivals
Place
McGehee, Arkansas
Incarceration Camps--Rohwer
Source
California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
http://library.csus.edu/collections/jaac/
Japanese American Archival Collection

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