Scope and Contents In this oral history interview conducted on November 15, 2004, Lillian Chieko Kimura, the first female president of the JASC, talks about her childhood in a “restricted” California town; life in Manzanar Relocation Center (California) from 1942 to 1945; and her growing involvement in the Chicago Resettlers Committee (CRC)/JASC, the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) after she and her family moved to Chicago in August 1945. She touches...

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Collection contains two color photographs from the 1979 Fuji Festival and seventeen color photographs of the Keiro Nursing Home Groundbreaking Ceremony (1990).

Scope and Contents The collection contains clippings, correspondence, photographs, awards, and related materials on the personal and professional lives of Tom and Lily Teraji. Some files on Lily’s brothers, Sam and Yoji Ozaki, are also included. Themes of interest include Tom Teraji’s athletic activities, involvement with the Boy Scouts, career with the Chicago Public School system, and various accolades, including Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays. Lily Teraji’s subseries also includes information...

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Collection contains items made in camp such as a deer pin and a painted bird ornament constructed from shells (ca. 1942-1945). Also included is a wooden replica of a relocation camp barrack and a NCJAR pin.

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Collection contains Japanese-English dictionaries that were used when Shunichi Nakagawa served in the Military Intelligence Service (ca. 1944). Also included is a book entitled “We the People: A Story of Internment in America” (1987).

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Collection contains programs from the Chicago Geino Doko Club amateur talent performances (1977-1980).

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Collection contains three photographs (1949) of George Maruyama and associates performing with their Shinko band.

Scope and Contents This collection of materials are from Mary and Jack Nakagawa. It consists of both documents, publications, photographs, VHS tapes and an artifact. Items of interest are a photographic album celebrating the Twenty and Five Investors, Inc. groups 40th Anniversery 1945 - 1985. This is along with a paper weight from the groups 25th Anniversery Dinner which Jack Y. Nakagawa was the President of the Chicago Chapter. There are two video tapes one from the 1990 Greater Portland Reunion and the 1990...