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Contains 12 Results:

Correspondence: Washington School Japanese-American students to Gladys L. Gage, 1942 - 1982

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains correspondence addressed to Gladys L. Gage from her students at Washington School describing their experiences at relocation centers, discriminatory laws impacting their families such as curfews, and desires for life outside of the internment camps. The series also includes correspondence between Gage and her parents describing her travel to Washington, her impressions of her school and students, and their evacautions.

Dates: 1942 - 1982

Correspondence: Gage, Gladys L. to parents, 1941 - 1942

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1-7
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains correspondence addressed to Gladys L. Gage from her students at Washington School describing their experiences at relocation centers, discriminatory laws impacting their families such as curfews, and desires for life outside of the internment camps. The series also includes correspondence between Gage and her parents describing her travel to Washington, her impressions of her school and students, and their evacautions.

Dates: 1941 - 1942

Student lists, including roll books, autograph book, and internment lists, 1941 - 1945

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents 1. Entry for Fannie Chiprut, signed in Hebrew as פני שיפרוט (F[a]ni Shiprut).2. Entry for Robert Wong, signed in Chinese as 黄篤强 (Cantonese: Wong4 Duk1Koeng4; Mandarin: Huáng Dǔqiáng).3. Entry for Reo Kanagawa, crossed through “[?]assho (goodbye)” in Roman letters. [Although Japanese verbs have a hortative form (“let’s X”) that ends in –massyo (ましょう), the intended word is unclear.]4. Entry for Albert Mark, signed in Chinese as 麥文驥 (Cantonese: Mak6 Man4Kei3;...
Dates: 1941 - 1945

Correspondence: Washington School Cantonese-American students to Gladys L. Gage, 1943-1944

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains correspondence addressed to Gladys L. Gage from her students at Washington School describing their experiences at relocation centers, discriminatory laws impacting their families such as curfews, and desires for life outside of the internment camps. The series also includes correspondence between Gage and her parents describing her travel to Washington, her impressions of her school and students, and their evacautions.

Dates: 1943-1944

Student assignments: dictations, compositions, genealogies, etc., 1941 - 1943

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series consists of print materials such as records, autograph books (like yearbooks), books in English and Japanese related to scripture and religious practice, including Konkokyo, and a memorial book dedicated to the passing of a young Japanese American.

Dates: 1941 - 1943

Classwork by Tooru Hideshima, Gladys L. Gage's only foreign Japanese student; biographical ephemera about his family, 1941-1942, 1956

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series consists of print materials such as records, autograph books (like yearbooks), books in English and Japanese related to scripture and religious practice, including Konkokyo, and a memorial book dedicated to the passing of a young Japanese American.

Dates: 1941-1942, 1956

Flower Show (Seattle) - Japanese Women's Home Economics Hobby Institute, 1941

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents

Japanese typeset sheet (11”x5.5”) titled in Japanese “日本趣味敎養女子家庭學院 | 創立趣意書” (Japanese Hobby Education Girls Home School | Founding Statement of Purpose), October 1941. Includes handwritten annotation “Japanese flower show I went to.”

Dates: 1941

Evacuation Ephemera with letter to Washington School principal re: Evacuation, 1942

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes notice of evacuation posters, a corsage made from shells, and items from a relocation camp in Twin Falls, Idaho. It also includes Gage's handwritten "travelogue" describing her journey home from Seattle to Hartford and the stops she made along the way.

Dates: 1942

Travelogue, “Seattle to Hartford - 1942”, June 12, 1942 - July 7, 1942

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes notice of evacuation posters, a corsage made from shells, and items from a relocation camp in Twin Falls, Idaho. It also includes Gage's handwritten "travelogue" describing her journey home from Seattle to Hartford and the stops she made along the way.

Dates: June 12, 1942 - July 7, 1942

Watkinson Library Exhibit "CT Encounter with Japanese American Internment" with notes by Gage and students, 1982

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes notice of evacuation posters, a corsage made from shells, and items from a relocation camp in Twin Falls, Idaho. It also includes Gage's handwritten "travelogue" describing her journey home from Seattle to Hartford and the stops she made along the way.

Dates: 1982