Kaoru Ichihara papers, 1942-1945

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Ichihara, Kaoru, 1915-
Title
Kaoru Ichihara papers
Dates
1942-1945 (inclusive)
Quantity
1 cubic ft.
Collection Number
1839 (Accession No. 1839-001)
Summary
Japanese American evacuee, World War II.
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

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Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Kaoru Ichihara was personal secretary to the General Secretary of the Seattle Council of Churches and Christian Education from 1939 to 1958. She was incarcerated at Camp Harmony and Camp Minidoka during World War II.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Writings, correspondence, newsletters, minutes, ephemera, reports, instructions, church programs, and clippings documenting the evacuation and resettlement of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

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Restrictions on Use

Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Acquisition Information

Kaoru Ichihara donated these papers to the Libraries in 1972.

Processing Note

The papers were reprocessed in 1996.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

 

CorrespondenceReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
1/1
Re: Evacuation
 1942
1/2
Re: Church Activities at Minidoka
 1942

Minutes, 1942Return to Top

Container(s): Box-folder 1/3

Church Programs, 1942-1943, n.d.Return to Top

Container(s): Box-folder 1/4

NewslettersReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
1/5
Resettlement Bulletin
 1944
1/6
Minidoka Herald
 1943
box:oversize
3
Camp Harmony Newsletter
 1942-1943

NewspapersReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
1/7-8
Pacific Citizen
 1942, 1944
box:oversize
3
Minidoka Irrigator
 1943-1944

ArticlesReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
1/9
"The Japanese-American Creed," by Mike Masaoka
1942
1/9
"Immigrants and Citizens of Japanese Origin," by Shotaro Frank Miyamoto
1/9
"Race Prejudice and the War," by Otto Klineberg
1/9
"Our Stakes in the Japanese Exodus," by Paul S. Taylor
1942
1/9
"A Blot on Our Record"
 1942
1/9
"The Japanese in Hawaii," by Blake Clark
 1942
1/9
"The Restricted Citizen," by Everett V. Stonequist
1942
1/9
"Civil Liberties: Slogan or Reality?" by William Henry Chamberlin
 1943
1/9
"Arizona's City of Exiles," by Albert W. Palmer
1943
1/10
"The West Coast Evacuation in Relation to the Struggle for Freedom," by Mabel B. Ellis & H.J. Wilkins
1/10
"Our Japanese Fellow Citizens," by Galen M. Fisher, in International Journal of Religious Education
1944
1/10
"At a Japanese Relocation Project," by Elsie Windsor
1944

Speech--by Sergeant Ben Kuraki, 1944Return to Top

Container(s): Box-folder 1/11

Subject SeriesReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
"In Camp"
Box/Folder
1/12
U.S. War Relocation Authority Report, Instructions
1942-1944
1/13
U.S. Army. Western Defense Command and Fourth Army Instructions
 1942
1/14
Bulletins
 1942-1943
1/15
Writings
"Resettlement"
Box/Folder
1/16
Letter: Seattle Council of Churches to Washington State Attorney General
 13 June 1944
1/17
U.S. War Relocation Authority Circulars
 1942-1943, n.d.
1/18
Ephemera
 1943-1944
1/19
Clippings
 1943-1944

ClippingsReturn to Top

Container(s): Box-folder 1/20

EphemeraReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
1/21
Evacuation
 1942-1943, n.d.
2/1-2
U.S. War Relocation Authority
 1942-1945, n.d.
Reports, Pamphlets
Box/Folder
2/3
"Nisei in Uniform"
2/3
"What We're Fighting For"
2/3
"A Voice That Must Be Heard"
2/3
"The Voice of Thy Brother's Blood"
 1944
2/3
"Aliens in Our Midst"
 1942
2/3
"American Refugees"
2/3
Report Submitted to Tolan Congressional Committee on National Defense Migration"
 1942
2/3
"Democracy Begins at Home"
 1943
2/3
"Outcasts!"
2/3
"The Concern of the Church for Christian and Democratic Treatment of Japanese Americans"
 1944
2/3
"America's Biggest Christmas Party"
2/3
"Relocation Hostel"
 1943
2/3
"The Churches and the Japanese in America"
1942
2/3
"Dispossessed"
2/3
"What About Our Japanese-Americans?"
 1944
2/3
"How Can Christians Help?"
 1942
2/3
"A Touchstone of Democracy: The Japanese in America"
1942
2/3
"We're All Americans!"
2/3
"The Japanese in Our Midst"
 1943
2/3
"That They May All Be One"
 1944
2/3
"The Displaced Japanese-Americans"
2/3
"Investigation on Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States"
 1944

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Concentration camp inmates--Idaho--Hunt
  • Concentration camp inmates--Washington (State)--Puyallup
  • Concentration camps--Idaho--Hunt
  • Concentration camps--Washington (State)--Puyallup
  • Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
  • Japanese Americans--Washington (State)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Idaho--Hunt
  • World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
  • World War, 1939-1945--Washington (State)--Puyallup

Personal Names

  • Ichihara, Kaoru, 1915- --Archives

Corporate Names

  • Minidoka Relocation Center
  • Puyallup Assembly Center (Puyallup, Wash.)
  • Seattle Council of Churches and Christian Education
  • United States. Army, 4th
  • United States. Army. Western Defense Command
  • United States. War Relocation Authority

Other Creators

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)


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