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Title
Message from the director of the War Relocation Authority
Creator
Myer, Dillon S. (Dillon Seymour), 1891-1982: author
United States. War Relocation Authority
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1945
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
Permission to publish the image must be obtained from the CSUDH Archives as owner of the physical item and copyright. In instances when the copyright ownership is not clear it is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain copyright permission.
Description
Includes: Summary of WRA policies and procedures for the final phase of the relocation program. It describes gradual closure of incarceration camp facilities and assistance programs available for incarcerees moving or returning home.
Tomoji Wada was an interpreter, bookkeeper, operator of a grocery store, and manufacturer of tofu and mochi on Terminal Island, California prior to World War II. He established a tofu manufacturing plant at the Poston camp in Arizona during the war, and became a gardener after returning from the incarceration camp to Los Angeles, California. The collection consists of receipts, ledgers, taxes, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, journals, guidebooks, immigration materials, and incarceration camp records pertaining to Tomoji Wada and his family. Materials include born-digital objects created and transferred from the donor.
Type
text
Format
Pamphlets
8 pages, 10.5 x 8 inches
application/pdf
Identifier
wad_02_05_001
csudh_wad_0330
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/37356
Language
English
Subject
World War II--Administration--War Relocation Authority
World War II--Leaving camp--'Resettlement
World War II--Leaving camp--Returning home
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/c84q8253/
Tomoji Wada Family Papers

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