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My Autobiography
Maker
Yamada, Mary K.
Date1942
Made WhereNewell, California, United States
Mediumpaper
Dimensions11 x 8.5 in
ClassificationsArchives
Credit LineIn Memory of Garrett Starmer, Gift of the Starmer Family
Object number2020.16.43
DescriptionAutobiographical essay written by Mary K Yamada, dated January 25, 1942. The essay was written for Garrett Starmer's Senior Problems Class at the Tule Lake High School. Mary notes that she hasn't lived her whole life yet, so she will the little she knows of her past. She writes about her father coming to America in 1896, and how he met his mother in Portland, Oregon in 1924.