Fred S. Farr correspondence and photographs

Details
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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(25 - 35 of 35)

Pages

Man in filed with plow
Man in filed with plow
Three women in work clothes, standing in a field.
Three women in work clothes, standing in a field.
Farm fields
Farm fields
Farm field
Farm field
Farm rows of vegetables
Farm rows of vegetables
Woman and child at a river beach
Woman and child at a river beach
Child playing in sand at a river beach
Child playing in sand at a river beach
Three women at the river
Three women at the river
Four women at the river
Four women at the river
Two people playing in a river
Two people playing in a river
Group of children playing in the river
Group of children playing in the river

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