Guide to the Coralee Yamamoto Fukosawa Collection

Collection — Box: 720

Identifier: H2014-30

Staff Only

Scope and Content

The collection consists of two original letters from Coralee Yamamoto Fukosawa to Mary Patton Bahmer. One was written shortly after Pearl Harbor was attacked, the other in the summer of 1942. The latter letter describes conditions at the internment camp. The collection also includes biographical information about Ms. Fukosawa and her family obtained by Archives staff, and notes from an interview with Mary Patton Bahmer’s daughter, also named Mary

Dates

1937, 1941-1942, 1944, 1987

Creator

Fukosawa, Coralee Yamamoto (Person)

Language of Materials

English

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research

Copy Restrictions

Limited duplication of print materials allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.

Biographical / Historical

Coralee Yamamoto and Mary M. Patton were classmates at Lingle High School in Goshen County during the 1930s. After graduating, Coralee was sent back to Japan for a time, possibly for an arranged marriage which only lasted a short time. She returned to the United States and was residing in Los Angeles, CA at the time Pearl Harbor was attacked. She and her second husband, each with a child from previous marriages, were interred at Manzanar, CA, along with other Japanese-Americans, in the spring of 1942