Walter Millsap / Keikichi Akana Imamura family papers
Container / Volume:
Box 2 | Folder 28
Image Count:
10
Abstract:
Correspondence, writings, and printed material collected by Walter Millsap. Chiefly correspondence between Millsap and the Imamura family during the Imamuras' internment at the Gila River Relocation Center. Millsap's letters to the Imamuras are represented by carbon copies. The letters discuss Japanese relocation and Millsap's United Co-Operative Industries, as well as his involvement in the Llano Colony, a socialist utopian community. Included are several typescripts of essays by Keikichi's wife, Toshiko Imamura, and some cartoons by their son, Keichi.
Alternative Title:
Jed and Ned and Trouble for Pa!!
Description:
Walter Millsap was from 1916 to 1919 an active member of the utopian Llano colony, a socialist community which moved from its original location in California to Louisiana in 1917. Millsap was trustee of United Co-Operative Industries and head of the Llano Co-Operative Association.
Subject (Name):
Gila River Relocation Center and Keikichi Akana Imamura Family--Archives
Subject (Topic):
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
Tells the story of a fat man who goes to California to look for gold, and loses weight while there, then returns home, gains back weight and dies.
Description:
Also issued as part of a collected work entitled: Juvenile gem (see BEIN 1990 168).
Publisher:
Philip J. Cozans, publisher, 107 Nassau Street,
Subject (Geographic):
California--Fiction, California--Gold discoveries--Caricatures and cartoons, California--Gold discoveries--Juvenile literature, and California--Juvenile literature
Subject (Name):
Swingle, John--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Children's poetry, Children's stories, and Picture books for children
Amours de Mr. Vieux Bois. English, Brother Jonathan extra, no. IX, containing The adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck, Brother Jonathan--extra ; Sept. 14, 1842, and Brother Jonathan--extra ; 1842 Sept. 14
Description:
Imperfect: title page repaired with tape. Presentation inscription to E.A. Mallory, 1850; tape partially obscures name of presenter., Originally published as Histoire de Monsieur Vieux Bois, Geneve, 1837; usually cited as: Amours de Mr. Vieux Bois., Published as an extra, or supplement, to the Sept. 14, 1842, issue of the periodical Brother Jonathan., and The first comic book published in America.