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Description
This small, cardboard token commemorates the Amache Incarceration Camp in Granada, Colorado, created by the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. The image on the token is a cartoon figure of a boy, most likeley a propoganda cartoon used previously. Token is from a page in Misao Okada’s album. Misao Okada’s scrapbook contains photographs, ephemera, notes, and correspondence documenting her time at Amache and a visit and reunion over 50 years later. The scrapbook also includes materials relating to reparations and events observing Japanese American incarceration.
Community activities--Associations and organizations Geographic communities--Colorado Geographic communities--California--Los Angeles World War II--Incarceration camps
Place
Los Angeles, California Incarceration Camps--Granada (Amache)
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections;
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