Manuscripts
Notebooks and address books
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Notebooks and address books
Manuscripts
Includes a three-ring notebook that appears to have been at least partially kept at Manzanar, with the bulk in Japanese and some correspondence in English, including a draft of an outgoing letter. One notebook in English is first aid-related; some notebooks are blank. Address books are undated.
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Ephemera
Manuscripts
Includes material related to post-war military service including a Domain of the Golden Dragon certificate (box 10); landing cards, passes, and Japan shore leave items; and a wage booklet. Also present are business cards; tickets; receipts; leaflets and handouts; ID cards and licenses, including a 1943 War Relocation Authority driver's license; loose notes; and a pre-war Japanese train map.
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Notebooks, address books, datebooks
Manuscripts
Babitz's address books and datebooks from the 1960s to the 1990s, and a few diary-type notebooks from the 1960s to the 1990s. Several of the datebooks are crammed with phone numbers, appointments, and observations; notebooks are sparser.
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Notebooks
Manuscripts
Most likely notes and calligraphy studies of Sumi Sakai while traveling in 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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Artifacts and artwork
Manuscripts
Includes portfolios (box 50), a souvenir booklet for Susie Kozawa baptism, currency and rubber stamps; also two unsigned relief prints and some calligraphy samples (box 51 and box 52).
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