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My Autobiography
Maker
Ota, Richard Seichi
Date1942-1945
Made WhereNewell, California, United States
Object Nameessay
Mediumpaper
Dimensions11 x 8.5 in
ClassificationsArchives
Credit LineIn Memory of Garrett Starmer, Gift of the Starmer Family
Object number2020.16.31
DescriptionAutobiographical essay written by Richard Seichi Ota for Garrett Starmer's Senior Problems Class at the Tule Lake High School. Richard writes that he was born on May 5, 1926 in the small town of Coyote, California. He mentions that he is the youngest in his family and that he has two brothers, six sisters, and that his father passed in 1938.