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Fumi Yamamoto Papers
1944-1994, 4 linear feet

This collection contains an autobiographical book manuscript, letters, photographs, journals, published materials and artifacts. Yamamoto started out as a secretary and eventually graduated from the University of Chicago in 1951 and became an editor at a publishing company. Her family is unusual in that she spent her early years in a Montana railroad town and then moved westward to Spokane, Washington. Upon finishing school, Yamamoto left her family and moved to New York City and then Chicago. This collection is valuable because it documents the life of a young Japanese American woman who was not interned (an experience that is rarely documented) and because she consciously reflected and wrote in detail about her life as an independent woman.
 
Research topics: Japanese Americans in Montana, Japanese Americans in Washington, and Japanese Americans in Chicago.
 

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