Order of Merit award
date: label: date made
content: April 5, 1943
name: label: maker
content: War Relocation Authority
notes: label: Description
content: This document is an Order of Merit that was presented to Roy Nakano from the War Relocation Authority. It was awarded to evacuee workers who demonstrated outstanding work in their service to the WRA. The WRA appreciated the hard work that Roy, as well as many other Japanese American workers, did during their imprisonment. Note how the document is addressed to "Mr. Ray Nakano", spelling Roy's name wrong.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Tule Lake
label: place made
content: United States: California, Tule Lake
topic: label: related event
content: Japanese American Internment
label: related event
content: World War II
setName: label: See more items in
content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Japanese American
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content: Executive Order 9066
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Janice Faden
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0037.22
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0037.22
label: accession number
content: 2016.0037
objectType: label: Object Name
content: document
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/2 in x 8 in; 26.67 cm x 20.32 cm