Autograph album with inscriptions from Amy Yoshikawa's high school classmates at the Rohwer Relocation Center in Arkansas during 1945. Includes two original photographs, one signed on verso: "In memory of a friendship begun. Amy, 1/4/48." Amy Yoshikawa and her family were residents of Stockton, California, prior to being sent to the Rohwer Relocation Center in Arkansas during the Japanese internment of World War II. Rohwer was opened in 1942 to house evacuees from California, particularly from Los Angeles and San Joaquin County, and closed officially in late 1945. Amy attended high school at Rohwer, graduating in the spring of 1945. This autograph album contains little that refers to her wartime experience, although one friend comments: " ... I wish you lots of luck and success in the years to come when you rehabilitate outside once again into the normal stream of American life, since this will be the last year of school here in Rohwer." The Yoshikawa family returned to Stockton during the spring of 1945. For more about the family and their experiences at Rohwer, see the "Yoshikawa family collection" at the University of the Pacific:
