| Title |
Interviews with Japanese in Utah: Grace Oshita |
| Alternative Title |
Grace Oshita: interviews on February 20, 21 and 26, 1985, and May 22 and 30, 1985 |
| Creator |
Oshita, Grace Fujimoto, 1925- |
| Contributor |
Kelen, Leslie G., 1949- |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1985-02-20; 1985-02-21; 1985-02-26; 1985-05-22; 1985-05-30 |
| Date Digital |
2014-05-07 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5391959/ ; Topaz Camp, Millard County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5548582/ |
| Subject |
Oshita, Grace Fujimoto, 1925- --Interviews; Japanese Americans--Utah--Interviews; Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945; Central Utah Relocation Center |
| Description |
Transcript (typescript, 174 pages) of a series of interviews with Grace Oshita, a Japanese-American living in Utah in 1985. Mrs. Oshita (b. 1925) speaks of her early life in San Francisco, her father's business ventures, and the Japanese relocations of World War II. Her family was interned at the Topaz, Utah, relocation center |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Relation |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv45901 |
| Scanning Technician |
Matt Wilkinson |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6j4099m |
| Topic |
Japanese Americans; Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945); Central Utah Relocation Center |
| Is Part of |
Aileen H. Clyde 20th Century Women's Legacy Archive |
| Relation is Part of |
Mitsugi M. Kasai Memorial Japanese American Archive |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
897992 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j4099m |
| Title |
Page 125 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
897947 |
| OCR Text |
Show OHI Grace Oshita 5-30-85 sl:2 LK Wasit stillthe regular hours? GO Yes. LK In the morning ••. GO They had - oh, !think I joined the school choir, that was one a the subjects I took. Music class. Glee . I enjoyed that be-case we were able to participate in activities such as visiting out ~ the camp schools, county schools. Perhaps just Delta only, but anyway, we sang at the Delta bigh school. LK AMongst your schoolmates, what did you talk about- about Topaz. What did you think of it? GO Oh, I can't remember. I can't remember being young anymore. [laughs] LK I'm talking to you as if you remember really easily, but it's along ways away. But what do you remember. GO Yes, it's been awhile .. LK About the early days of Topaz. What stands out fromthat. GO Oh. Let's see I think the climate was different fromthe ~ild climate of the bay area. Well, let's see.Nothing really changed as far as the way we lived from Ta~to~~\ . Having to go to the~ss hall and eating with the large group. Or eating at a large table with another family. Ah, nothing was really homey. LK Everything became very institutional. GO That's right. LK What was it like to eat in those mess halls. Noisy. GO Oh, very, It was noisy all right. There's always a clatter of the dishes. And the heavy plates, becuase they used the army type |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j4099m/897947 |
