Pacemaker t-shirt, Santa Anita CA, 1942
date: label: date made
content: circa 1942
notes: label: Description
content: This t-shirt is Eunice B. Kurisu's Pacemaker T-Shirt. The Pacemaker was a Japanese-American newspaper produced in the Santa Anita Assembly Center and Eunice worked for the Recreation Department and kept stats for the baseball team and would submit these stats into the Pacemaker. Her brother, Paul Yokota, worked for the Pacemaker Newspaper as an editor. Eunice was given this shirt from the Pacemaker staff and she wore it to various events while in Santa Anita. The Santa Anita Pacemaker was one of fifteen newspapers published in the Japanese American prison camps.
label: Description
content: These prison camps were created to house Japanese Americans forcibly relocated from their homes under Executive Order 9066. Eunice was relocated to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, then to the Jerome, Arkansas prison camp until she was allowed to leave and work as a nanny in Chicago.
label: Description
content: The Pacemaker was named after the camp's original purpose: a horse racing track. It was the longest running publication from the prison camps and served the Santa Anita camp, which had the biggest population of the prison camps (about 19,000 people lived there). It started publication on April 19, 1942 and ended on October 7, 1942. It published news on the lives of the people in the camp (weddings, deaths, etc), social events (dances, etc), sports, camp rules from the administration, human interest stories, and a literary section.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Japanese American
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: gift of Eunice B. Kurisu
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0284.01
label: accession number
content: 2016.0284
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0284.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: T-Shirt
label: Object Name
content: t-shirt
label: Object Name
content: t-Shirt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 in x 22 1/2 in; 50.8 cm x 57.15 cm
label: Measurements
content: part:: 14 3/4 in; 37.465 cm