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Title
Letter from Tom Yamamoto to Waegell family, April 25, 1942
Creator
Yamamoto, Tom: author
Date Created and/or Issued
1905-04-25
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 must be submitted in writing to California State University, Sacramento, University Library, Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. Further information available online: www.lib.csus.edu/scua
Description
Handwritten correspondence from Tom Yamamoto to the Waegells describing the weather, conditions, sleeping arrangements, food, administration, and daily life at Topaz incarceration camp in Utah.
The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence
6 pages; 11 x 8.5 inches, handwritten
application/pdf
Identifier
sac_jaac_00059
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/7354
Language
English
Subject
World War II--Incarceration camps--Living conditions
Place
Delta, Utah
Incarceration Camps--Topaz (Central Utah)
Source
California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
Japanese American Archival Collection

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