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Title
Letter from Kinjiro Shiraishi to "Dear Sir" [Remsen Bird], April 19, 1943
Creator
Shiraishi, Kinjiro
Date Created and/or Issued
1943-04-19
2005-04-27
Publication Information
Los Angeles : Occidental College Library, 2005
Contributing Institution
Occidental College Library
Collection
Japanese American Relocation Collection
Rights Information
Property and literary rights reside with the Occidental College Library. For permission to reproduce or publish, please contact Special Collections.
Description
Shiraishi expresses appreciation and gratitude to Bird for helping him reunite with his family after 13 months of separation. He also thanks Bird for being such a good friend to his son Akira, and regrets that Akira could not attend Occidental College. [see Bird's reply Dbase #065] [Letter is transcribed. See 'Transcript' field below.]
Type
image
Format
Letter ; handwritten
image/jpeg
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt3j49r97w
064_kt638nc9ww
scjar01ea064.jpg
Language
English
Subject
Shiraishi, Akira
Occidental College
Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.)
Japanese American college students
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Source
Occidental College Library

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