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Dorothy and Hiroshi Kaneko Papers
1940-1996, 4 linear feet

These papers consist of correspondence, photographs, a guest book, postcards, menus, receipts, reports, publications, newsletters and newspaper clippings documenting their lives in Salem and Hood River, Oregon; Tule Lake Relocation Center, California; and Chicago, Illinois. Of particular importance are photographs and a guest book used by the Kaneko family in Oregon, Tule Lake, and at their LaSalle Mansion apartment house in Chicago; Chicago's Japanese American Yearbooks dating from 1948 to 1950 (integrated into Library Collection); a 1953 issue of Chicago's Scene magazine; and internment camp reunion materials.
 
Research topics: Japanese Americans in Oregon, Tule Lake Relocation Center (Tulelake, California), Occupied Japan, Japanese American movement for redress from the U.S. Government, Japanese American resettlement, Japanese Americans in Chicago, and U.S. civil rights.
 
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