Image / Letter from Kinjiro Shiraishi to Remsen Bird, March 5, 1945

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Title: Letter from Kinjiro Shiraishi to Remsen Bird, March 5, 1945
Creator: Shiraishi, Kinjiro
Date Created and/or Issued: 1945-03-05
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 writes about his family's new life in Akron, Ohio. He explains that he and his wife have found work in "an American's home who is well understanding about us ..." He mentions that Akira, his son, has moved to Chicago and is working in a factory. [Letter is transcribed. See 'Transcript' field below.]
Type: image
Format: Letter ; handwritten
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Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt7v19s11k
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Language: English
Subject: Shiraishi, Akira
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Source: Occidental College Library

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