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Title
Letter from Carolyn Okimura to Edith Jennings, September 8, 1944
Creator
Okimura, Carolyn: author
Date Created and/or Issued
1945-09-08
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
All request for permission to publish must be submitted in writing to California State University, Sacramento, University Library, Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. Further information available online: www.lib.csus.edu/scua
Description
Letter to Mrs. Davis (Jennings) from her student, Carolyn Okimura, regarding her and her family's upcoming resettlement and returning home, post incarceration at Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp, Wyoming. In: "Letters from Heart Mountain Summer 1945" pocket. From: Scrapbook-memoirs, Wyoming (sac_jenn_0001), page 25.
Edith Jennings, a 5th grade teacher at Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp, compiled a scrapbook of photographs, ephemera, notes, correspondence, student drawings, paintings, and stories, performance programs, sheet music, camp newsletters and bulletins, news clippings, and camp census reports from 1944-1945.
Type
text
Format
Scrapbooks; Correspondence
2 pages, 9 x 6 inches, handwritten
application/pdf
Identifier
sac_jenn_0035
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/56933
Language
English
Subject
World War II--Leaving camp
World War II--Leaving camp--'Resettlement
World War II--Leaving camp--Returning home
Geographic communities--Wyoming
Geographic communities--California--Sacramento
Geographic communities--Washington
Place
Cody, Wyoming
Incarceration Camps--Heart Mountain
Source
California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
Edith Jennings Heart Mountain Scrapbook

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