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Description
An envelope mailed from Hiroji Hosaka to Mr. H. M. Nickerson, who is presumably Manager of Elks Building Association of Los Angeles and wrote a petition letter for Hiroji Hosaka when he was interned in the Santa Fe Internment camp. Hiroji mailed it from the Santa Fe Internment camp. 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 2 envelope, 3.75 x 6.5 inches, handwritten application/pdf
World War II--Support from the non-Japanese American community World War II--Pearl Harbor and aftermath--Arrests, searches, and seizures World War II--Pearl Harbor and aftermath--Decision to incarcerate
Place
Santa Fe, New Mexico Department of Justice Internment Camps--Santa Fe
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections;
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