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Title
Memoir and oral history transcription of former Terminal Island residents
Creator
Ariga, Kimiye Okuno Takeuchi: author
Hirashima, Mary: interviewee
Tamura, Mary: interviewer
Date Created and/or Issued
1994-04-23
1994-06
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
Permission to publish the application must be obtained from the CSUDH Archives as owner of the physical item and copyright. In instances when copyright ownership is not clear it is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain copyright permission.
Description
One oral history transcription and one memoir concerning the biographical histories of two former Terminal Island residents, Kimiye Okuno Takeuchi Ariga and Mary Hirashima.
The Terminal Island Personal Histories Collection features one transcribed oral history, one autobiography, and a possible rough draft edition of a book entitled, "Terminal Island: An Island in Time, Collection of Personal Histories of Former Islanders 1994-1995," which compiles 34 more transcribed oral histories, biographies, and autobiographies of the Japanese American residents who lived on Terminal Island before being forcibly removed in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Type
text
Format
Oral histories; Interviews; Biographies; Transcriptions
9 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches, typescript; 9 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches, typescript
application/pdf
Identifier
teri_02_02
csudh_teri_0003
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/47908
Language
English
Subject
Geographic communities--California--Terminal Island
Community activities
Geographic communities--California--Los Angeles
Identity and values--Issei
Identity and values--Nisei
Identity and values--Family
Identity and values--Parents
Identity and values--Men
Identity and values--Women
Immigration and citizenship--Arrival
Industry and employment--Fishing and canneries
Japan--Post-World War II
Race and racism
World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--'Evacuation Day
World War II--Incarceration camps--Medical care and health issues
World War II--Resistance and dissidence--Expatriation/repatriation/deportation
Reflections on the past
Place
Terminal Island, California
Los Angeles, California
Manzanar, California
Parker, Arizona
Crystal City, Texas
Missoula, Montana
Mie Prefecture, Japan
Incarceration Camps--Poston (Colorado River)
Department of Justice Internment Camps--Crystal City
Department of Justice Internment Camps--Fort Missoula
Incarceration Camps--Manzanar
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/c8kw5p9z/
Terminal Island Personal Histories Collection

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