Manuscripts
Letters received
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George Bush formal letter of apology to Japanese Americans
Manuscripts
The collection documents multiple generations of the Sakai, Kozawa, Kawakami, and related families primarily in the Los Angeles area from approximately 1890 to 2017 and the family business, Tokio Florist. Family papers contain correspondence, notebooks, property and other records, publications, ephemera, and artifacts. Also present are business records, architectural drawings, and other material related to Tokio Florist, especially at its Hyperion Avenue location, and other family floral business locations in Los Angeles. The collection contains extensive photographic material, including photo albums, snapshots, formal studio portraits, and panoramic photographs. Some correspondence, publications, and photographs document various family members' experiences while incarcerated at the Manzanar War Relocation Center during World War II. Family papers and photographs also pertain to extended family in and visits to Japan.
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Letters received
Manuscripts
Letters dated 1939 and 1941 to 1946 were originally stored together in a file box; the bulk of these were sent to Sumi and sometimes multiple Sakai family members while incarcerated at Manzanar and are primarily from personal and family friends. Some were sent from other camps including Poston, Gila River, and Tule Lake, or from elsewhere in the U.S. following the sender's release, describing their current lives, schooling, and work, in New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, Chicago, and elsewhere. These correspondents performed secretarial work, domestic labor, and farm labor; some were involved in resettlement efforts by the Advisory Committee for Evacuees in Chicago and the American Friends Service Committee; or served in the U.S. Army. There are several letters from friend Sunao Imoto, who was released from Poston to work for poet Carl Sandburg and his wife, Lilian Sandburg. Also present in this group are letters from friends and neighbors in Los Angeles, including Galetta Van Valkenburgh, and a request from Yuki Sakai to a Father Lavery for assistance in transferring her parents from the Santa Anita Sanitarium near the Santa Anita Assembly Center, dated 1942 June 17. Letters were possibly originally filed by sender and there are several index cards with correspondents' names and addresses present. Some letters from 1940 and 1941 were sent to Sumi Sakai while she was traveling in Japan. Post-war correspondence is from family and friends in the U.S. and Japan and includes greeting cards and holiday snapshot cards, especially from the Kawakami family; some letters and cards are addressed to multiple family members.
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Two envelopes : Museum of Fine Arts, Division of Instruction, Boston, Mass
Visual Materials
Two envelopes with "Museum of Fine Arts, Division of Instruction, Boston, Mass." printed on them. There are no other markings or dates, ca. 1935. Title supplied by cataloger.
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1939. (22 letters)
Manuscripts
Correspondents: Art Institute of Chicago Macdonald, Regina Keany, Katherine Haas, Irvin Cahill, Holger, 1887-1960—Thank you notes for Two New Yorkers and for reviewing of his work Jewell, Edward Alden, 1888-1947 Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt, 1875-1942 Keiffer, W. Brown—Thank you note for reviewing of his work Frankfurter, Alfred M. Ripley, Edward L. Palamountain, Joseph C. Caesar, Doris, 1893-1971 Wilson, Ellis, 1899-1977—Regarding Kruse's sponsorship of his Guggenheim fellowship application Archer, Edmund Minor, 1904-—Thank you for Two New Yorkers Morrow, B. F.—Thank you note for reviewing his work Smith, Marinobel Preston, W. G., Jr.—Thank you note for Two New Yorkers Biddle, George, 1885-—Review of Two New Yorkers on the back of his letter Myers, Bernard Samuel, 1908-—Thank you note for reviewing his exhibit Lebewska, Lawrence (?)—Thank you note for reviewing his work.
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Alfred A. Cohen notes and ephemera
Manuscripts
This small group of items include four notes, presumably written by Alfred A. Cohen, and four empty envelopes (all addressed to Cohen). The notes relate to a E. R. Nuñex and the sheets of paper have a stamp from Ensenada, Mexico. Some of the notes were written on the back of a blank invoice: "Su Cuenta Corriente con Eulogio Romero, Ensenada, Baja, Cal."
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Signal Hill oil field. January 18, 1931
Visual Materials
A slightly elevated panoramic view of an oil field at Signal Hill. There are several dozen oil rigs, or derricks, most with sheds or circular structures, distributed along dirt roads. There is an office for the Armadillo Oil Company on the left, and ms. markings on the right show where Well No. 1 of the Hub Petroleum Corporation is located. There are two notes in white just left of center, reading "Photo No. 1. By ; C.C. Pierce & Co. ; 1572 W. Pico L.A." and "Long Beach Oil Field ; "Signal Hill" ; 1-18-1931".
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