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Title
Card from Margaret Elizabeth Toy to Mitzi Naohara, March 1942
Creator
Toy, Margaret Elizabeth: author
Date Created and/or Issued
1942-03
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
A birthday card from Margaret Elizabeth Toy to Mitzi Masukawa Naohara for her 19th birthday on March 16. The caption reads: On my 19th birthday from Margaret just before evacuating from Long Beach, together with a necklace, 1942. An item from: Mitzi Naohara scrapbook (csudh_nao_0400), page 32.
The George and Mitzi Naohara Papers consists of photo albums and scrapbooks compiled by George and Mitzi Naohara, and other documents pertaining to the Naohara and Masukawa family. Contained are photographs, correspondence, documents, and memorabilia depicting their experiences during World War II. George Nobuo Naohara is a Kibei Nisei, and his experiences include his farm labor in Idaho and Utah, incarceration in the Manzanar, Jerome, and Tule Lake camps, and the U.S. Army language school training and Korean War. He also engaged in Buddhist activities for his whole life and there are moving images depicting Gardena Buddhist Church activities after the war. Mitzi Masukawa Naohara was a preschool teacher at the Poston camp, Arizona, and also a member of a young Nisei women's club, "Sigma Debs.” Her collected materials depict her life as a teacher and social events in the Poston camp during the war.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence; Scrapbooks
5 x 4 inches, handwritten
application/pdf
Identifier
nao_03_33_001
csudh_nao_0465
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/16068
Language
English
Subject
Geographic communities--California--Los Angeles
Identity and values--Nisei
World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')
Place
Los Angeles, 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/c8jm2hrh/
George and Mitzi Naohara Papers

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