Yoshiko Uchida photograph collection circa 1903-1991

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Yoshiko Uchida photograph collection circa 1903-1991

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Photographs related to the life and work of Japanese American author Yoshiko Uchida, including photographs of family and friends, as well as photographs related to her career as a writer. Some images are of Tanforan, Heart Mountain and Topaz Japanese relocation centers as well as Smith College.

316 items (chiefly photographic prints and negatives); 278 digital objects

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Bancroft Library

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Uchida, Yoshiko

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Yoshiko Uchida was born in Alameda, California in 1921. She was an educator, secretary, and author of acclaimed children's books that deal with the Japanese-American experience and are noted for their elaborate plots and fleshed-out characters. She taught schoolchildren when she and her family were interned in Utah during World War II and later she worked as a secretary in order to have time to do her writing after work. She died in 1992. Biographical Source: Something About the Author, vol. 53 ...

Tanforan Assembly Center (San Bruno, Calif.)

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Central Utah Relocation Center

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