Inventory of Kuwahara Family Papers SPC.2018.040

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Inventory of Kuwahara Family Papers SPC.2018.040

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box 1, folder 1

Breed Street news flashes 1942

Physical Description: 1 items

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents

Material is an issue of " Breed Street news flashes," a Breed Street Elementary School newsletter, featuring their students who were being removed because of the exclusion order.

box 1, folder 2

Whutsit, vol. 1, no. 1 1943 March 20

Physical Description: 1 items

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents

Material is an issue of " Whusit," a newsletter published by Poston I Junior High School. Includes pages 1-2 only.

box 1, folder 3, 10

Desert daze, vol. 1, no. 2; vol. 3 1943 May 27; 1945 March 28-29

Physical Description: 2 items

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents

Contain two issues of " Desert daze," a newsletter published by Poston I Junior High School on May 27 1943 and March 28-29, 1945.

box 1, folder 12

Kampus krier, vol. 3, no. 26 1945 May 4

Physical Description: 1 items

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents

Material is an issue of " Kampus krier," a newsletter published by Poston I High School.

box 1, folder 4-5, 7

Poston chronicle = ポストン新報; Granada pioneer = グラナダパイオニア 1943 August 25-December 2

Physical Description: 4 items

Language of Material: Japanese.

Scope and Contents

Includes Japanese sections from three issues of " Poston chronicle = ポストン新報," vol. 2, no. 94-95 [?] (1943 December 2, 4) and vol. 3, no. 29 (1944 March 9) published in the Poston camp in Arizona; and an issue of Granada pioneer, vol. 1, no. 94 = グラナダパイオニア, 第49号 (1943 August 25), published in the Granada camp in Colorado.

box 1, folder 6

Cooperator = 組合ニュース, 新年號 1944 January 8

Physical Description: 1 items

Language of Material: Japanese.

Scope and Contents

Material is an issue of Tule Lake camp Co-op newsletter, " Cooperator = 組合ニュース, 新年號." Includes pages 5-6 only.

box 1, folder 8

Posuton Shuyojo ポストン収容所 = Poston incarceration camp 1944 May 9-June 2

Physical Description: 1 items

Language of Material: Japanese.

Scope and Contents

Material is a travel journal written by Kenji Kawabe of his time away from the Poston camp in Arizona from May 9 through June 2, 1944. He visited the Granada camp in Colorado, and Salt Lake and the Topaz camp in Utah, meeting his friends and going sightseeing and shopping.

box 1, folder 9

Photograph of a high school auditorium in the Poston camp 1944

Physical Description: 1 Photographic Prints

box 1, folder 11

Photograph of a bird carving class in the Poston camp April 1945

Physical Description: 1 Photographic Prints

box 1, folder 14

Photograph of chicken farm workers in the Poston camp June 1945

Physical Description: 1 Photographic Prints

Language of Material: Caption in Japanese.

box 1, folder 13, 24

Photographs of Poston camp facilities and desert landscape 1945; undated

Physical Description: 8 Photographic Prints

Language of Material: Captions in English and Japanese.

Scope and Contents

Contains eight photographs of the facilities and desert landscape in the Poston camp in Arizona.

box 1, folder 22

Watercolor paintings of Poston camp facilities undated

Physical Description: 3 Sheets

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents

Contains three watercolor paintings depicting the facilities in the Poston camp in Arizona.

box 1, folder 23

A Happier New Year from Poston circa 1942-1945

Physical Description: 1 items

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents

Material is a New Year's card created in the Poston camp in Arizona.

box 1, folder 15

Ten visits: brief accounts of our visits to all ten Japanese American relocation centers of World War II by Frank and Joanne Iratani September, 1992

Physical Description: 1 volume(17 pages, 26 pages of plates, color illustrations, maps)

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents

Material is a booklet written by Frank and Joaane Iritani, containing a brief account of their visits to all ten incarceration camps.

box 1, folder 16

Official program from Poston memorial monument dedication October 6, 1992

Physical Description: 1 volume(25 pages, illustrations)

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents

Contains a booklet accompanied with a letter.

box 1, folder 17

Poston I 1942-1992 50 year camp reunion 1992

Physical Description: 1 volume(112 pages)

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents

Material is a booklet published for Poston I 50 year camp reunion.

box 1, folder 18

Poston I 1942-1997 55 year camp reunion 1997

Physical Description: 1 volume

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents

Material is a booklet published for Poston I 55 year camp reunion.

box 1, folder 19

Poston I class reunion 1998 banquet program 1998

Physical Description: 1 Sheets

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents

Material is a banquet program for Poston I class reunion.

box 1, folder 20

Class of 45 Poston High School reunion program December 1, 2001

Physical Description: 1 volume

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents

Material is a program booklet for Poston High School class of 45 reunion.

box 1, folder 21

Reunion DVDs and flyer 1992-2011

Physical Description: 4.01 Gigabytes(34 digital files)

Physical Description: 3 items(2 DVDs and 1 flyer)

Language of Material: English.

Scope and Contents

Contains two DVDs and a flyer from Poston reunion 2011. DVDs include image files and a pdf file of a booklet, "Poston I 1942-1992 50 year camp reunion;" two unpublished documents, "Poston Relocation Center, Arizona" written by Katherine Baishiki and Cindy Kumagawa and "Soldiers and the camps (Poston, AZ)" compiled by James McIlwain; and moving image files from Poston reunion 2011.

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