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Kaoru Ichihara papers, 1942-1945
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Ichihara, Kaoru, 1915-
- Title
- Kaoru Ichihara papers
- Dates
- 1942-1945 (inclusive)19421945
- Quantity
- 1 cubic ft.
- Collection Number
- 1839 (Accession No. 1839-001)
- Summary
- Japanese American evacuee, World War II.
- Repository
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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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Open to all users.
- 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
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
CorrespondenceReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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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 |
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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 |
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"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 |
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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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