Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biography
Scope and Content
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Peter M. Takaichi Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1927-1946
Collection number: Special Collections M0909
Creator:
Takaichi, Peter M.
Extent:
.25 linear ft.
Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights
reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To
obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the
Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Provenance
Purchased, 1997
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item] Peter M. Takaichi Papers, M0909, Dept. of Special
Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biography
Peter M. Takaichi owned and operated the National Printing Company in
San Jose,California. When in 1942 Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued
Executive Order No. 9102 authorizing the evacuation of all Japanese
Americans from the West Coast, Takaichi and his family were ordered
to gather at the Santa Anita Aseembly Center in Arcadia,
California. Before being sent with his family to the Heart Mountain
Relocation Center in Wyoming, Peter Takaichi transferred ownership
of the family business over to Iden Flint, a long-time employee.
The family then spent 1942-1943 in Wyoming before moving on to St.
Paul Minnesota.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of six folders (chronological order)
documenting the evacuation of a Japanese American family from San
Jose, California, to Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming. The
notes, letters, and post cards describe life in the relocation camp.
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Creator/Collector:
Ichihashi, Yamato, 1879?-1963.
Title: Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1918-1963.
Identifier/Call Number: SC 071
The collection includes Ichihashi's diaries, 1943-1963 ; correspondence, notes, and some memoires of the World War II relocation
of Japanese and Japanese-Americans from the West Coast of the United States; and a small amount of biographical material.
Related Material
Ichihashi, Yamato.
Morning glory, evening shadow : Yamato Ichihashi and his internment writings, 1982-1945.
Edited, annotated, and with a biographical essay by Gordon H. Chang.
Stanford, Calif.:Stanford University Press,1997.