Yoshiko Uchida papers, 1903-1994 (bulk 1942-1992).

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Uchida, Yoshiko. Yoshiko Uchida papers, 1903-1994 (bulk 1942-1992).

Yoshiko Uchida papers, 1903-1994 (bulk 1942-1992).

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Consists of Uchida's correspondence, writings, and professional files, along with a small amount of personal and family papers, providing insight into the life of a successful and distinguished author, as well as her experiences as a Japanese-American growing up in Berkeley, Calif., and internment camps during the war years. Uchida's correspondence chiefly concerns business with publishers and other professionals in the literary publishing trade, and includes a large amount of fan mail. Her writings contain manuscripts of both published and unpublished works, including books, short stories, folktales, articles, and poetry. Her professional papers contain biographical and autobiographical information, as well as her bibliographies, awards, notes, and transcripts for appearances and speeches, interviews, and other professional activities. Uchida's personal papers contain writings she did as a child, with other memorabilia, as well as diaries and journals, personal documents and miscellaneous papers, as well as memorabilia from several memorial services and exhibits held after her death. The Uchida family papers include correspondence among the immediate family, along with a few papers of her parents, Takashi ("Dwight") and Iku Uchida. Of special interest are those materials concerning relocation and redress, which include correspondence written by family members during their internment, scrapbooks, diaries, drawings and watercolors, and miscellaneous publications regarding internment. Periodicals, books, correspondence, newspaper clippings, ephemera.

68 boxes, 1 carton, 2 v., 2 oversize folders, 14 oversize boxes, 1 portfolio (33.25 linear feet)Copy of Box 58, folders 6-7, Ford Foundation Fellowship, and Box 61, Correspondence, 1949-1988 : also available on microfilm : negative (BNEG Box 2873) and positive.Copy of Box 50, folder 4-7, 1-11, 14, Biographical Materials, Paper on Uchida by Sadako Kashigawi; Box 55, folders 1-2, 5-21, Reference materials for talks, interview notes; and Box 57, folder 13, Paper from Smith College, 1943 : 1 microfilm reel (720 frames) : negative (BNEG Box 2964) and positive.Copy of Box 46, Articles and Box 63, folders 6-8, 11-14, Biographical Materials : 1 microfilm reel (922 frames) : negative (BNEG Box 3022) and positive.

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