COLLECTION
Shitamae family letters Item Info
- Title:
- Shitamae family letters
- Link:
- https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/shitamae/
- Date Created:
- 1942
- Archival Date:
- 1942-1944
- Collection Description:
- Shihei (George) Shitamae was incarcerated at the Sante Fe Detention Center in Sante Fe, New Mexico during World War II. The letters in this collection were written by his family incarcerated at Camp Harmony, a temporary detention center located in Puyallup, Washington, and the Minidoka Incarceration Camp in Hunt, Idaho. The letters contain information about family members, activities, and other aspects of life during incarceration.
- Librarian Explanation:
- Letters discuss daily life of people inside and outside the detention center, show examples of official internment processes through stamps and some official correspondence
- Relevant Standard:
- 9-12.US2.21 Evaluate Supreme Court and executive decisions to limit civil liberties and to relocate Japanese Americans and others to internment camps.
- Subjects:
- internment camps japanese-american world wars
- Location:
- Seattle, Washington; Twin Falls, Idaho; Washington, D.C.; Yellow Springs, Ohio; Hiroshima, Japan; Minidoka, Idaho; Oakley, Idaho; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Puyallup, Washington; Hunt, Idaho
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Language:
- eng;jpn
Attribution
- Citation:
- "Shitamae family letters", University of Idaho Library Open Education Portal, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://thecdil.github.io/oep/items/shitamae-family-letters.html