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[ Letter to Mas Iwate from Tatsumi Iwate | October 23, 1942 ]
Copyright JANM
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[ Letter to Mas Iwate from Tatsumi Iwate | October 23, 1942 ]

Date1942
Mediumpaper, ink
ClassificationsArchives
Credit LineGift of the Iwate Family
Object number2001.145.71
Description3-page letter by Tatsumi Iwate to his brother Mas Iwate in the Jerome concentration camp on October 23, 1942 from Camp Hale, Colorado. Tatsumi writes about how he is glad to know that Mas likes Jerome, that according to Mari, residents at Tule Lake can go out to back hill or any place within 5 miles of the camp, that Tonto is working in a beet field, how he is thinking of getting discharged from the armed services to enter a mail order business, that he is no longer at Camp Carson but at Camp Hale, that he has been put in as an artist at Camp Hale.

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