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Title
Happy New Year from Poston
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
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Description
A New Year's card created in the Poston camp in Arizona.
The Kuwahara Family Papers contains documentation of the Kuwahara family depicting the daily life and people incarcerated in the Poston camp in Arizona during World War II. Materials include: junior high school, high school, and camp community newsletters in both Japanese and English, a short travel journal written by Kenji Kaware of his time away from the Psoton camp, visiting the Granada camp in Colorado and Salt Lake and the Topaz camp in Utah, photographs of class groups, farm workers, and desert landscape, watercolor paintings of the camp facilities, and programs and booklets of the family and community reunions of the Poston incarceration camp.
Type
text
Format
Holiday cards
1 folded sheet, 11 x 8.5 inches folded to 5.5 x 4.25 inches
application/pdf
Identifier
kuw_01_23_001
csudh_kuw_0027
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/38010
Language
English
Subject
World War II--Incarceration camps--Social and recreational activities
Community activities--Festivals, celebrations, and holidays--New Year festivals
Place
Parker, Arizona
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/c8qv3t5z/
Kuwahara Family Papers

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