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It never ceases to amaze me what documents
and other treasures are still “found” in the walls of buildings or stored in
attics and basements! Sometimes you
might figure that someone wanted to hide the items and other times we know that
old newspapers were used for insulation.
This
AP article, by Colleen Slevin in artdaily.org’s
blog, “Internment camp letters, where 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry
lived, found in Denver
DENVER (AP).- Some letters arriving from Japanese-American internment camps
during World War II were very specific, asking for a certain brand of bath
powder, cold cream or cough drops — but only the red ones. Others were just
desperate for anything from the outside world.
"Please don't send back my check. Send me anything," one
letter said from a California
The letters, discovered recently during renovations at a former Denver pharmacy owned by Japanese-Americans, provide a
glimpse into life in some of the 10 camps where 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry,
including U.S.
Has this happened in your community,
where the demolition or remodeling of a building has revealed a hidden treasure
trove of documents from an important time in history or which have great significance to those researching ancestors?
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