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Description
Christmas letter from Takuma Tanaka to Mrs. Davis (Jennings) and her 5th Grade class at Heart Mountain Elementary School, Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp. Postcard of the Empire State building adhered to the letter. Back of letter post scripted Brooklyn, New York. Handwritten address reads: Mrs. Davids + 5th grade, Heart Mt Wyo. From: Scrapbook-memoirs, Wyoming (sac_jenn_0001), page 23. Edith Jennings, a 5th grade teacher at Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp, compiled a scrapbook of photographs, ephemera, notes, correspondence, student drawings, paintings, and stories, performance programs, sheet music, camp newsletters and bulletins, news clippings, and camp census reports from 1944-1945.
World War II--Incarceration camps World War II--Leaving camp World War II--Leaving camp--'Resettlement World War II--Incarceration camps--Education Education--Primary education Industry and employment--Educators World War II--Incarceration camps--Holidays and festivals Geographic communities--Wyoming Geographic communities--New York--New York
Place
Brooklyn, New York Incarceration Camps--Heart Mountain
Source
California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
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