Corrine Nishimura autograph album : manuscript.

Arizona, 1940-1944.

1 item (circa 70 pages)

English

Purchased from Kevin Jackson on the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 2016.

This material is open for research.

Corrine Nishimura (1928-) was imprisoned in an unidentified concentration camp in Arizona during the Second World War, circa 1944.

Autograph album containing circa 70 letters and autographs collected by Corrine Nishimura. Contains circa 55 letters and autographs collected during Nishimura's incarceration in an unidentified concentration camp in Arizona during incarceration of Japanese Americans during the Second World War, circa 1944. Most entries were written by fellow incarcerees; also includes the autograph of Dillon S. Myer, the Director of the War Relocation Authority, 1942-1946, and circa 17 letters and autographs from Nishimura's classmates in California, circa 1940-1941. Includes 2 photographs of 3 unidentified women, possibly taken at an unidentified concentration camp.

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April 02, 2018

Corrine Nishimura Autograph Album. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Corrine Nishimura Autograph Album. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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