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Title
Letter from Emiko A. Terada to Mrs. and Mrs. Thomas, August 27, 1948
Creator
Terada, Emiko Amy: author
Date Created and/or Issued
1948-08-27
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
A letter from Emiko Amy Terada in Los Angeles, California to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas in Lawndale, California. The letter contains news of her mother's death.
The James H. Osborne Nisei Collection contains mainly correspondence between Emiko and Usami Terada, incarcerees in the Rohwer incarceration camp, McGehee Arkansas, and the Thomas family in Lawndale, California, and photographs of the Teradas and the Thomases. The letters describe the trip from the Santa Anita Temporary Assembly Center to the Rohwer incarceration camp, their lives and conditions in the camp, and their concerns about their properties in Lawndale, California. Also included are photographs taken in the camp, some issues of "The Rohwer outpost," and fliers published during wartime.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence
1 sheet, 8 x 5 inches, handwritten; 1 envelope
application/pdf
Identifier
nis_06_028
csudh_nis_0027
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/9966
Language
English
Subject
Geographic communities--California--Los Angeles
Community activities--Funerals
World War II--Leaving camp--'Resettlement
Place
Los Angeles, California
Incarceration Camps--Rohwer
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections;
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8h1377p/
James H. Osborne Nisei Collection

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