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Title
[Japanese couple]
Creator
Billigmeier, Robert Henry: compiler
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of the Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library.
Description
Photo of a Japanese American couple wearing crucifix pins pose outdoors. A crowd is in the background. From photo album of Robert Billigmeier.
The Robert Billigmeier collection is comprised of materials collected during his work and stay at the Tule Lake incarceration camp conducting research for the University of California’s Japanese Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS). The collection includes: photographs taken during his time at Tule Lake; a scrapbook created by students at Tule Lake in 1942; camp publications; reports and manuscripts; and student writings. Several of the reports and manuscripts draw from the personality cards written by students in the Tule Lake incarceration camp.
Type
image
Format
Photographs
black and white
image/jpeg
Identifier
mei_05_093
ucsb_mei_0124
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/13186
Subject
Identity and values--Japanese American identity
Identity and values--Women
Identity and values--Men
Religion and churches--Christianity
World War II--Incarceration camps--Religion
World War II--Incarceration camps
Place
Newell, California
Incarceration Camps--Tule Lake
Source
Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt509nf34j/
Robert Billigmeier Collection

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