Onlooker Yearbook Belonging to Paul Sugimoto, 1945
date: label: date made
content: circa 1945
notes: label: Description
content: This is the 1945 Onlooker yearbook that was published by the students of Amache High School, belonging to Paul Sugimoto while he was imprisoned in the Amache Prison Camp in Colorado. That year, Paul Sugimoto was on the Senior High Student Council.
label: Description
content: Not many yearbooks were published in the Japanese American prison camps, and the Onlooker was one such yearbook.
label: Description
content: Paul Sugimoto's father, Shinsuke Sugimoto, was an Issei and was one of the first detainees to be arrested after Executive Order 9066 was issued. It is thought that Shinsuke Sugimoto was arrested because of his expertise with kendo, a Japanese martial art that uses bamboo swords. After Paul Sugimoto's father's arrest and relocation to Tuna Canyon Detention Station in Tujunga, California and the Alien Detention Santa Fe prison camp in New Mexico, Paul and the rest of his family were ordered to the Santa Anita Assembly Center in California.
label: Description
content: The Santa Anita Assembly Center was a horse racetrack turned temporary camp before the prison camps were finished, and the conditions were inadequate, underfunded, and overcrowded.
label: Description
content: Paul's family were relocated to the Granda / Amache prison camp in Colorado, where they were finally reunited with his father, Shinsuke. Paul attended the Amache Camp High School.
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 Donna Sugimoto
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0280.25
label: accession number
content: 2016.0280
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0280.25
objectType: label: Object Name
content: yearbook
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 8 in; 27.94 cm x 20.32 cm