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My Autobiography

Date1943
Made WhereNewell, California, United States
Mediumpaper
Dimensions10.5 x 8 in
ClassificationsArchives
Credit LineIn Memory of Garrett Starmer, Gift of the Starmer Family
Object number2020.16.40
DescriptionAutobiographical essay written by Haruko Tsukamoto, dated January 25, 1943. The essay was written as a part of Garrett Starmer's Senior Problems Class at the Tule Lake High School. Haruko writes that her parents were both from Fukuoka, Japan and when her dad was twenty, he moved to America. She mentions that her father spent time in California before settling in Salem, Oregon.
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Inouye, Johnny
1942-1945
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Yamada, Mary K.
1942
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Ogawa, Esther
1942-1945
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Kawahata, Chiyoko
1942-1945
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Matsune, Marie
1942-1945
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Kinoshita, Mary Mitsuko
1942-1945
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Yoshino, Nina (Nanaye) Jeanne
1943
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Toyoda, Yutaka H.
1942-1945
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Kumagai, Miyo
1942-1945
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Aramaki, Eva
1942-1945
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Sato, Sam
1942-1945
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Yagi, George
1943

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