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Title
Letter from Emiko Amy Terada to Miss Laura Thomas, August 30, 1942
Creator
Terada, Emiko Amy: author
Date Created and/or Issued
1942-08-30
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 letter from Emiko [Amy] Terada, an incarceree at the Rohwer incarceration camp, to Miss Laura Thomas. The letter contains basic correspondence between the two individuals, talking about family members, the weather, and school. Transcript was provided by the donor and is available: csudh_nis_9012.
The James H. Osborne Nisei Collection contains mainly correspondence between Emiko and Usami Terada, incarcerees in the Rohwer incarceration camp, McGehee Arkansas, and the Thomas family in Lawndale, California, and photographs of the Teradas and the Thomases. The letters describe the trip from the Santa Anita Temporary Assembly Center to the Rohwer incarceration camp, their lives and conditions in the camp, and their concerns about their properties in Lawndale, California. Also included are photographs taken in the camp, some issues of "The Rohwer outpost," and fliers published during wartime.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence
1 sheet (2 pages), 9 x 6 inches, handwritten; 1 envelope
application/pdf
Identifier
nis_06_013
csudh_nis_0012
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/9951
Language
English
Subject
World War II--Incarceration camps
World War II--Incarceration camps--Living conditions
Place
McGehee, Arkansas
Incarceration Camps--Rohwer
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections;
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8h1377p/
James H. Osborne Nisei Collection

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