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Bulletin from E. Raymond Cato to All Members of the California Highway Patrol regarding procedures pertaining to curfews, permits, and prohibited articles
Date: April 14, 1942
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Caption: "Rescue of Life Raft from Wrecked Steamer Valencia." Photograph showing a boat crew about to rescue 18 people on a life raft. On Monday, January 22, 1906, the passenger liner Valencia ran aground on a reef during a storm off the southwestern coast of Vancouver Island (an area notorious for ship wrecks). Although the shore was only about fifty yards away, heavy seas and rock cliffs prevented the passengers and crew from making their way safely to land. Circumstances prevented rescue vessels from coming to the stricken ship's aid until Wednesday January 24th. The steamship City of Topeka rescued 18 men on a life raft, shown in this photograph. The official death toll was 136: seven officers, 33 crewmen, and 96 passengers (including seventeen women and eleven children -- all of the women and children on board perished). Only 37 people survived the wreck.
Date: 1/24/1906
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Front page of the Pictorial Edition of Manzanar Free Press depicting four women farming land at Manzanar
Date: September 10, 1943
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Office Memorandum from Bertha S. Underhill to Elizabeth B. MacLatchie regarding
Date: July 27, 1945
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Affidavit of Choichiro Kakuuchi for Kijiro Shigaki in establishment of residency; Notarized by Loise Bottrell; See also: F3729_117_004, F3729_117_005
Date: June 28, 1947
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Correspondence from Herbert E. Wenig to Major Charles Fairman relating to court briefs pertaining to incarceration and other restrictions on Japanese
Date: September 24, 1942
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No Caption: A section from an informational tourist brochure describing the Cathedral and Chapultepec Castle and Park in Mexico City.
Date: 1938
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Caption: "Turtle Pens -- Key West. July 2, 1934." View of turtle kraals, or turtle corrals, used in the turtle fishing industry in Key West. Green turtles were kept in these pens prior to slaughter or transport. Turtle meat and eggs were popular food items in the early-to-mid twentieth century; turtle fat was especially prized for making turtle soup. However, the turtle population plummeted in the Florida Keys and surrounding areas as the twentieth century progressed and demand increased. The turtle kraals and nearby canneries closed when the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1971. Populations have since started to recover. The cannery near the kraals shown in this photograph now serves as the Key West Turtle Museum.
Date: 7/2/1934