Personal letter discusses Nagahama's shorthand and drafting classes; Salzman's promotion to instrument tester [at Lockheed]; her own and Salzman's saxophone playing; Hideo [Watanabe's?] employment as business manager in the "Free Press" (her quotes) office; and rationing at Manzanar. She also expresses sorrow at the loss the prior week of 177 "former Bainbridge Island people" who had been removed to "Hunt Relocation Center in Minidoka, Idaho," mentioning that they had petitioned to "evacuate to the Idaho center right after the riot when there was so much tension because they wanted to be with the people from up north where they had come from." She further discusses her surprise that people had been brought to Manzanar from Bainbridge Island in the first place. The Manzanar Collection features materials relating to the forced relocation to Manzanar, California, of Miriko Nagahama and Honey Mitsuye Toda, including correspondence, photographs, and newspapers, donated in 1981 and 1995.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence 4 pages, handwritten and typescript, 1 envelope application/pdf
Arts and literature--Performing arts--Music Arts and literature--Visual arts Geographic communities--California World War II--Incarceration camps--Arts and literature World War II--Incarceration camps--Education World War II--Incarceration camps--Incarcerees World War II--Incarceration camps--Living conditions World War II--Incarceration camps--Social and recreational activities World War II--Incarceration camps--Work and jobs Geographic communities--Washington--Bainbridge Island World War II--Incarceration camps--Conflicts, intimidation, and violence World War II--Incarceration camps--Conflicts, intimidation, and violence--Manzanar riot/uprising
Place
Manzanar, California Hunt, Idaho Incarceration Camps--Manzanar Incarceration Camps--Minidoka
Source
Special Collections and Archives, Robert E. Kennedy Library, California Polytechnic State University
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