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This is a collection of Midwest Kendo Federation's newsletters called Sempo Vanguard. The collection starts in 1985 through 2001.

Scope and Contents The Kameoka Tamada collection contains scrapbooks that document Ruby’s time at the Cook County School of Nursing and her employment at Cook County Hospital (CCH), the theatrical and social events that she attended, newspaper clippings related to CCH and medical procedures, hand-crafted gifts from patients, greeting cards to celebrate holidays, newsletters from Colorado, matchbooks, correspondence from friends stationed domestically and abroad during WWII, communications from the Illinois...

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The Ryoko Kobayashi collection consists of materials that document her internment experience at the Santa Anita Assembly Center, Jerome Relocation Center and Rohwer Relocation Center. Collection includes correspondence, government documents, photographs, yearbooks, newsletters, and artifacts (1940-1968). Clippings, documents, and memos related to the Japanese American Redress campaign are present (1975-1999).

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Collection contains two issues of the Chicago Nisei Courier dated 1946-1947.

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Collection contains a shako from the Nisei Ambassadors Drum and Bugle Corps.

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Collection contains "Sound Off! Nisei Ambassadors Drum Corps Bulletin" newsletters (1968-1970).

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Collection contains group photographs of the Nisei Ambassadors Drum and Bugle Corps reunion attendees (1990).

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Collection contains a panoramic black and white photograph from the Military Intelligence School (MIS) in Fort Snelling, Minnesota (1945) and another small photograph of MIS Language School members.

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The Nishi Papers include drafts of Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi’s paper entitled “Recovery and Hidden Injuries: Wartime Incarceration and Japanese American Lives.”