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Letter from Ronald Reagan to Nancy
This source is a handwritten love letter from Ronald Reagan to his wife Nancy Reagan, worded to ‘Mammie poo’ from ‘Poppa’. The letter is a page long and has arrow through two hearts illustrated in the left hand corner. Prior to Ronald Reagan’s…
Hawaiian Territorial Seal Sculpture
This is a white marble sculpture, 3ft by 3ft by 10 inch in size. It is located at the Queen Lili’uokalani Building in Honolulu, Hawaii having been authorised in August 1949 and installed on 20/1/1950. It shows two figures guarding a crest that is…
Tags: 20th century, American flag, American influence, Annexation, Art, Flag, Hawai'i, Hawaii, Honolulu, King of Hawaii, Material Culture, Material Object, Militarisation, Military, Monarchy, Motto, Motto of Hawai'i, Queen Lili’uokalani, Sculpture, Seal of Hawaii, Second World War, Stone, US Military, World War Two, WW2
‘Aloha to Volunteers’ – photograph of the 442nd Infantry Regiment in Iolani Palace, Hawaii
This is a black and white photograph with unknown original size details. It is believed that the photograph was taken by a member of the U.S Army Signal Corps or U.S Navy. It shows a large combat group gathered at the Ionlani Palace, previously a…
Their Best Way to Show Loyalty: An Editorial
A transcript of an editorial piece published by The San Francisco News noting that Japanese people and people with Japanese Ancestry voluntarily evacuating and being relocated is the way to show their loyalty to the state. Notes that people have been…
Waiting for the Signal From Home
The Cartoon is titled “Waiting for the Signal From Home” and it shows thousands of Japanese people who are all stereotyped marching from Washington, through Oregon and to California to pick up blocks of explosives from a small shed named “Honorable…
Tags: 20th century, Anti-Japanese, California, Cartoon, Discrimination, Dr. Seuss, FDR, Fifth Column, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Illustration, Japanese American, Japanese Immigration, Oregon, Pacific ocean, Pearl Harbour, Political Cartoon, President, Propaganda, Second World War, war effort, Washington, WW2
Wreckage of USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor, Hawai’i
This photo shows the aftermath of the bombing at Pearl Harbour in December 1941. This photo is significant for a number of reasons. Firstly, the vessel that was bombed was a US naval ship. By the ship being stationed in Hawai’i, it shows that the US…
Japanese-American volunteers
This photograph is an image of a group of Japanese-American men, based in Kauai, who were receiving a physical examination test as they wanted to their part in the Second World War. Despite the fact that many of the young men in the photograph were…
Application for Leave Clearance form, WRA-126
The source, informally known as the “Loyalty Questionnaire” is an example of the questionnaires the War Relocation Authority sent into internment camps to assess the loyalty of Japanese people. This form needed to be filled out before the individual…
Sharp Camp following the evacuation order for persons of Japanese ancestry
The photograph depicts Aliens at Sharp Camp, California following the evacuation order for people of Japanese ancestry. The camp seen in the photograph was set up to serve as a detention centre were people were given hearings. The Japanese people…