Fred S. Farr correspondence and photographs

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Title: Fred S. Farr correspondence and photographs
Contributor: Farr, Fred S.
Date: 1942-1945
Identifier or Call Number: MS-685
Scope and contents: The collection contains seven letters to Farr from Japanese American friends from California incarcerated during World War II. Most of the letters are from Eiko Fujii, beginning shortly after her arrival at Santa Anita Assembly Center in 1942, continuing through her transfer to Denson, Ark., at Jerome incarceration camp, and ending after she left the camps and held a teaching position the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The letters discuss daily life in the camps and her family's physical, psychological, and emotional adjustment to life there; as well as references to Farr's personal and professional life. Also included are photographs collected by Fred S. Farr, depicting Japanese Americans travelling by train and an unidentified incarceration camp.
Biographical or Historical Information: Farr was a Calif. Democrat who served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1960.

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Title: Message to our neighbors and friends on the day of evacua...
Description: Pamphlet containing a printed message to Japanese Americans from the Reedley Committee on National Security and Fair Play. Th...
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Title: Letter from Mary to Fred S. Farr, June 10, 1942
Description: Letter, signed "Mary," to Fred S. Farr, describing author's arrival and impressions of the Santa Anita Temporary Assembly Cen...
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Title: Letter from Eiko Fujii to Fred S. Farr, June 15, 1942
Description: Letter from Eiko Fujii to Fred S. Farr, describing arrival and adjustment to life inside the Santa Anita Temporary Assembly C...
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Title: Letter from Eiko Fujii to Fred S. Farr, August 24, 1942
Description: Letter from Eiko Fujii to Fred S. Farr, describing life inside the Santa Anita Temporary Assembly Center. Fujii mentions Farr...
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Title: Letter from Eiko Fujii to Fred S. Farr, September 4, 1943
Description: Letter from Eiko Fujii to Fred S. Farr, written three months after moving to Ann Arbor Michigan. Fujii writes about her job ...
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Title: Children on a train
Description: A photograph of children looking from train window.
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Title: Child on a train
Description: A photograph of a child looking from a train window.
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Title: People on a train
Description: A photograph of people looking from a train window.
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Title: People boarding a train
Description: Contact prints showing people boarding a train and looking from train windows.
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Title: Two women in front of a building
Description: A photograph of two women standing in front of a building.
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Title: Wood burning stove
Description: A photograph of a large wood burning stove at a an incarceration center.
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Title: People at train station
Description: A photograph of people gathered in front of a train.
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Title: Photographic postcard showing site of Manzanar Incarcerat...
Description: A photographic postcard of Mt. Whitney and Lone Pine, California, with a handwritten note indicating the location of the Manz...
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Title: Three men, one woman with cat
Description: A photograph of three men and one woman, standing in front of a wooden structure. The woman is holding a cat.
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Title: Three men, one woman, dog, and cat in background
Description: A photograph of three men and one woman in front of a wooden structure. The man on the right is petting a dog. A cat is in th...
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Title: Four girls
Description: A photograph of four girls, posed standing outside.
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Title: Man in front of building
Description: A photograph of a man standing in front of a wooden structure.
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Title: Woman and man working outside a wooden structure
Description: A photograph of a woman and a man working outside a building, with farm equipment, wooden boards, and a perambulator.
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Title: Two women posed outside, clothes line in background
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A photograph of two women, posed standing outside in front of a clothes line and a wooden structure.

Title: Child standing outside
Description: A photograph of a child standing outside in front of a structure covered by billowing fabric.
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