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My Autobiography

Date1942-1945
Made WhereNewell, California, United States
Mediumpaper
Dimensions11 x 8.5 in
ClassificationsArchives
Credit LineIn Memory of Garrett Starmer, Gift of the Starmer Family
Object number2020.16.19
DescriptionAutobiographical essay written by George (Toshio) Matsui for Garrett Starmer's Senior Problems Class at the Tule Lake High School. In the inside cover of the essay there is a drawing of football players tackling each other, and above them are army troops marching, a ship, a tank, and bombs being dropped from the sky by an airplane. Under the image there is a quote from an English poet named John Ruskin.
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