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Beikoku Kashū hainichi jijō : Kashū gaijin shin tochihō chokusetsu rippō tenmatsu
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Yo wa ikanishite beikoku shōjo to kekkonseshiya
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Letters written by Kaneko Kiichi to Josephine Conger from 1904 to 1905, while the author was a student at Harvard University. Conger and Kaneko were later married and moved to Girard, Kansas, where they co-founded The Socialist Woman (renamed The Progressive Woman) magazine. Kaneko's letters incluide his thoughts on literature, the status of women, American culture, love and marriage. He also responded to many of the clippings of Conger's writing that she had sent him as well as referencing his own publications in the US and Japan. The English originals are transcribed with their Japanese translations on facing pages. The publication was intended to help Japanese students learning English. Although Conger's letters are not included, this collection offers a rare glimpse into the courtship of a mixed race couple during a period when Asian-Anglo marriages were outlawed in many states.
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The Bamboo People : the law and Japanese-Americans
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Pioneering Nisei attorney Frank F. Chuman (1917- ) was active in many of the key civil rights-related cases in the early postwar era. He is also credited with being one of the first to come up with the concept of reopening the wartime cases using the writ of error coram nobis. During his time in law school, he worked at the Los Angeles County Probation Department. Following Executive Order 9066, Chuman was placed on "leave of absence" from his job, and subsequently taken away and confined at Manzanar. Chuman left Manzanar in the fall of 1943 to continue his legal studies. During the postwar years, he served as legal counsel for the national JACL from 1953-60 and as its national president from 1960-62. During his term as president, Chuman negotiated with UCLA president, Franklin Murphy, the creation of the Japanese American Research Project (JARP), to be housed at UCLA, with archives holding rare materials on Japanese immigrants. In connection with JARP, Chuman devoted several years of research, when he could get away from his law practice, to the creation of a legal history of Japanese Americans, including the evolution of legislation and jurisprudence in regard to immigration restrictions, alien land laws, wartime confinement and other subjects. Chuman's book remains the standard work in that area
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Shinsen Hawai Chizu / Ichimei Hawai Annai / 新撰布哇地圖。一名布哇案内
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Covers Oahu, Maui, Kaui, Hawai'i and the island chain of Hawaiʻi. Shows topics of interest to the Japanese visitor or immigrant to Hawaiʻi including: population demographics of Japanese on the different islands; places of interest, average temperatures, list of Buddhist religious centers, Japanese primary schools, charts of distances between places on the Islands (for example: from Honolulu to Lihue). Text also contains traveler's advice for immigration, entry/re-entry into Hawaiʻi. The outer border consists of blocks of text and graphics containing advertisements from Japanese businesses, including bicycle shops, Western (European) clothing and hat stores, bakeries, hotels, grocery stores and photography studios.
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Train orders from Burlington and Santa Fe Railroads
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Prior to the adoption of newer train dispatching methods, train orders were the primary means of providing temporary instructions, or instructions for a specific train. Train orders were issued at stations along the route. If a train crew reported for service at a station, the orders would be received there. At other stations, the orders would be handed up to the train crew members "on the fly". Train orders were of two basic types: Train orders pertaining to authorization of train movements or train orders pertaining to operating or track conditions. Trains orders of the second type usually involved temporary speed restrictions, or maintenance of way personnel on the tracks. One train order is a Santa Fe Form 933 from July 1, 1944. Four are Form 19s from the Burlington Lines from January 1947.
mssHM 74638
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Correspondence--Chang, Charlotte to Chow Shin Bo
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The Chang papers primarily contain photographs and scrapbooks related to the Chang and Ah Tye (pronounced Ah Tie) families. Photographs include family portraits and casual shots, such as Charlotte and Ora Chang posing in front of a home. The scrapbooks consist of photographs spanning from the early 1900s through mid-1900s. Events such as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, conventions, trips, graduations, and campus life are captured. There are also professional papers concerning Chang's work as a diplomat and consul for the Republic of China (Box 2, 14 and Box 3, 4). In one cipher cable, the message reads "Chang Hong Yen appointed Consul at Vancouver. Please urge Chang to take office as soon as possible..." (Box 2, 14). Also found in the collection are clippings and excerpts related to a bitter dispute over the Kong Chow Temple in San Francisco, California. Constructed in 1854, Charlotte Chang's father, Yee Ah Tye, was given a plot of land for the temple by the city of San Francisco for his work as an interpreter. Charlotte Chang also appeared to have a close relationship with Soong Ching-ling, a leader of the 1911 revolution that established the Republic of China. In a letter dated March 14, 1917, Ching-ling writes, "A friend of ours, General Julian S. Carr expects to arrive in May at Frisco, &; I am sending you a slight token of my love & gratitude for your kindness to me when I too was a perfect stranger to you" (Box 1, 13). Other items in the collection are newspaper clippings, printed matter related to Chang's posthumous appointment, Chinese calligraphy, and Ah Tye's family tree.
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Diaries kept aboard the U.S.S. Aquarius
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Two diaries kept by Seymour Siegel while he was with a Coast Guard unit aboard the U.S.S. Aquarius in Peleliu (Palau) and the Philippines from July 1944 to January 1945. Siegel writes of transporting Marines and Army units, attacks from Japanese planes, his time volunteering in the sick bay, the capture of a wounded Japanese soldier, cooperation with Australian transports, Douglas MacArthur's "returning speech to the Philippine people," and the Invasion of Luzon. Also included are two transcripts of rewritten portions of the diaries, a transcript of the diaries, a typed log of the U.S.S. Aquarius, and a letter transferring Siegel to New York in 1945.
mssHM 75032-75038