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Title: Diary of George Fujimoto Jr. (1943)
Creator: Fujimoto, George, Jr.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1943
Contributing Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Special Collections and University Archives
Collection: Fujimoto family diaries
Rights Information: Copyrighted
Use: This work is available from the UCR Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study. Constraint(s) on Use: This work is protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Use of this work beyond that allowed by "fair use" requires written permission of the UC Regents. Responsibility for obtaining permissions and any use and distribution of this work rests exclusively with the user and not the UCR Library. Inquiries can be made to the UCR Library’s Special Collections & University Archives.
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Description: Scope/Content: Diary of George Fujimoto, Jr., a young Japanese American man from Riverside, California, with daily entries for most days in 1943. From January to June 1943, Fujimoto records his experiences incarcerated in Poston, in southwestern Arizona. In June, Fujimoto left the camp to work in Des Moines, Iowa under the War Relocation Authority resettlement program, along with his sister and brother-in-law. Covers journey by car from Poston to Des Moines, and life in Des Moines, where Fujimoto worked developing film in a photography studio. Entries begin on page 21.
Type: text
Format: 1 diary
Form/Genre: diaries
Extent: 424 pages
Identifier: ark:/86086/n2kw5fss
curivsc_ms096_002_gf_1943
Language: English
eng
Subject: World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
Japanese Americans--Exclusion and incarceration, 1942-1945
United States. War Relocation Authority
Place: Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.)
33.9875, -114.4011
Des Moines (Iowa)
Source: MS 096

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