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Title
Letter from Elizabeth James, Tri-State High School, to parents, July 9, 1943
Creator
James, Elizabeth: author
Tri-State High School (Newell, Calif.): author
Date Created and/or Issued
1943-07-09
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 letter from Elizabeth James, a teacher at Tri-State High School at the Tule Lake camp, California, to parents of the high school students. It reflects on her observation and experience as a teacher in the camp and notes her suggestions for the students.
The Usui Family Papers consist of documents pertaining to the family's experiences of the forced evacuation and incarceration during World War II. The Usui Family was incarcerated in the Tule Lake camp, California, and transferred to the Minidoka camp, Idaho. Included are correspondence, gate pass, receipts, census conducted among Issei incarcerees, student report cards, lists of transfers from Tule Lake to Minidoka, a directory of the incarcerees in the Minidoka camp, and publications. All items originally belonged to the Donald Teruo Hata and Nadine Ishitani Hata Asian Pacific Studies Collection.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence
2 pages, 11 x 8.5 inches, typescript
application/pdf
Identifier
usui_01_02_001
csudh_usui_0001
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/18277
Language
English
Subject
World War II--Incarceration camps--Education
Education--Secondary education
Industry and employment--Educators
Place
Newell, California
Incarceration Camps--Tule Lake
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
Usui Family Papers

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