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Title
Letter from Takino Hosaka to Hiroji Hosaka, March 29, 1942
Creator
Hosaka, Takino, 1892-1943: author
Date Created and/or Issued
1942-03-29
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 Takino Hosaka to Hiroji Hosaka who had been detained in the Santa Fe Internment camp in New Mexico. It detailed the pressing situation in Little Tokyo. She was reluctant to sell their hotel for 200 dollars and informed that Mr. Kase had to sell his hotel (St. George Hotel) for 1,000 dollars, which he had purchased for 13,000 dollars three years ago. The letter was censored.
Hiroji Hosaka Family Letters consists of correspondence between Hiroji Hosaka and his family and friends while he was imprisoned in the Santa Fe Detention Station, the Santa Anita Assembly Center, and the Heart Mountain incarceration camp during World War II. Also included are prewar photographs of the Daiichi Rafu Gakuen, that is, a Japanese language school in Los Angeles, and Japanese archery, a photograph of the Heart Mountain camp, and his business cards prior to the war.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence
3 pages, 8.5 x 7.25 inches, handwritten; 1 envelope
application/pdf
Identifier
hos_01_02_001
csudh_hos_0003
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/52628
Language
Japanese
Subject
World War II--Economic losses
World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--Preparation
World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--Japanese American community responses
Identity and values--Issei
Industry and employment--Hotel industry
Geographic communities--California--Los Angeles
Place
Los Angeles, California
Department of Justice Internment Camps--Santa Fe
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections;
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8t441dn/
Hiroji Hosaka Family Letters

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