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Title
Census of Japanese nationals in the Minidoka Project
Creator
United States. War Relocation Authority
Minidoka Relocation Center
Date Created and/or Issued
1944-05
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
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Description
A census of Japanese nationals conducted among Isseis in the Minidoka camp, Idaho. It collects information on an Issei incarceree, including name, age, gender, and addresses of the Minidoka camp and her/his original hometown in Japan.
The Usui Family Papers consist of documents pertaining to the family's experiences of the forced evacuation and incarceration during World War II. The Usui Family was incarcerated in the Tule Lake camp, California, and transferred to the Minidoka camp, Idaho. Included are correspondence, gate pass, receipts, census conducted among Issei incarcerees, student report cards, lists of transfers from Tule Lake to Minidoka, a directory of the incarcerees in the Minidoka camp, and publications. All items originally belonged to the Donald Teruo Hata and Nadine Ishitani Hata Asian Pacific Studies Collection.
Type
text
Format
Questionnaires
1 page, 7 x 8.5 inches, handwritten
application/pdf
Identifier
usui_01_08_002
csudh_usui_0010
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/18244
Language
English
Japanese
Subject
World War II--Incarceration camps--Incarcerees
Identity and values--Issei
Place
Hunt, Idaho
Incarceration Camps--Minidoka
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
Usui Family Papers

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