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Marie Namba letter to June Clark about incarceration at Portland Assembly Center

 Digital Record
Identifier: Coll 1072

Summary

Digitized version of a four-page handwritten letter from Marie Namba, a Japanese American woman, to a former teacher, June Clark of Portland, Oregon. In the letter, Namba describes the events of a few days earlier, when her family was compelled by military order to report to the Portland Assembly Center, a temporary detention center located on the grounds of the Portland International Livestock Exposition. She also describes her living quarters at the center, and says she has taken a job at the center's dental clinic. Namba expresses regret that she was unable to see Clark before she was ordered to go to the center.

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Part of the Oregon Historical Society Research Library Repository

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