PUBLIC WELFARE DEPARTMENT: SOCIAL WELFARE DIVISION: PUBLIC ASSISTANCE UNIT:
An Inventory of Its Alien Aid and Civilian War Assistance Files at the Minnesota Historical Society
Government Records
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Minnesota. Public Assistance Unit. | |
| Title: | Alien Aid and Civilian War Assistance Files. | |
| Dates: | 1942-1947. | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | Case files and general correspondence of the Social Welfare Division as the agency designated to administer two federal wartime emergency assistance programs: 1) aid to enemy aliens and others in need because of restrictive actions of the U.S. government (primarily relocated Japanese-Americans); and 2) aid to U.S. citizens evacuated or repatriated from areas under the direction of U.S. civil or military authorities (primarily the Philippines and Hawaii), or in need as a result of enemy action. | |
| Quantity: | 1.0 cubic feet (1 box). | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
SCOPE AND CONTENTS
Aid was furnished by local welfare agencies and reimbursed by the federal government with the state agency acting as coordinator.
Records include correspondence with federal authorities and local welfare case files containing relief applications, case histories, reports, and related correspondence.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minnesota. Public Assistance Unit. Alien Aid and Civilian War Assistance Files. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Accession Information:
Accession numbers: None; 977-37
Processing Information:
Catalog ID number: 990017034850104294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
| 109.I.17.14F | Alien Aid Files: | ||||||||||
| General Correspondence, 1942-1947. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
| Case File Nos. 1-78. 78 folders: | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 1, Jeanne Nakawatase. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 2, Yoshimi and Goro Matsuura. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 3, Hisashi Kumagai. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 4, Heather Miyake. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 5, June Ozawa. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 6, Yukichi Okamoto. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 7, Fukumi Frank Ishikawa. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 8, Tom Okubo. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 9, Otto A. L. Ritter. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 10, Jesuke Yamada. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 11, Edward Yamamoto. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 12, Altheus Smithberger. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 13, Sueno Kotake. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 14, Stanley Marubayashi. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 15, Arthur Noma. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 16, James Taniguchi. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 17, Kimi Takahashi. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 18, Tsutomi and Miyo Senzaki. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 19, Harry Chukyo and Frances Kojima. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 20, Kwanzo Tanji and Frank Sakurai. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 21, Michiko Tsuchida (alias Nishimoto). | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 22, Mary Shizue Ota. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 23, Tom Kuranishi. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 24, Fred Strobel. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 25, Paul Sugino. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 26, Fumi Tanamachi. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 27, Tomatzo Matsuyama. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 28, Francis Gregory Hoffman. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 29, Riichi (Frank) and Shio Akamatsu. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 30, Thos-Beatrice Tanimoto and Asakichi-Koito Hayashi. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 31, Emil Eugene Benz. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 32, Osamu Imayanagita. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 33, Kura Shoji Hidaka. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 34, Masao Tanaka. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 35, Kiyoko Kushino. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 36, Takao-Hisaye Shiozaki. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 37, Fred Ohno. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 38, Toshiko Nishimura. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 39, Domenick and Mary Macre. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 40, Masato and Teruko Shimatsu. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 41, Kumi Matsushita. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 42, Yukio Kawamoto. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 43, Yayeko Baba. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 44, Mrs. Sam-Aya Kozu. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 45, Alyce Kihara. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 46, Miju Furusho. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 47, Isao Yamamoto. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 48, Shinsuke Taira. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 49, Karl Erhard Siegel. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 50, Sakumatsu Moriguchi. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 51, Tsuyako Kasai. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 52, Isaburo Murakami. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 53, Isao Kirita. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 54, Kazuyoshi Ikeda. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 55, Mrs. Tomiko Ogata. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 56, Toshiharu Hirabayashi. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 57, Eleanor Sadamori. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 58, Seikichi Osaka. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 59, Yotaro Yokoyama. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 60, Kenji Harada. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 61, Ken Hanagata. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 62, Tokyo Yokoyama. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 63, Grace Ono. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 64, Hachiju Kono. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 65, Paula Yoshino. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 66, Anna Nagase. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 67, Doris Shigaki. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 68, Amy Yamane. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 69, Yone Somekawa. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 70, Kaneji Takekawa. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 71, Benjamin Sugimura. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 72, Tsuru Taketa. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 73, Sadayo Washino. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 74, Ithitro-Chiyono Matsuoka. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 75, Sachi Yamada. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 76, Patricia Torii. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 77, Toshiko Iwahashi. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 78, John Monk Smith. | |||||||||||
| Civilian War Assistance Files: | |||||||||||
| General Correspondence. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
| Case File Nos. 1-27. 29 folders: | |||||||||||
| Includes 2 other case files. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 72396, Nick Patronas. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 03664, John Arabanos. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 1, Arthur and Eleanor Riss. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 2, Donald Bateman. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 3, Josephine, Mary and Donald MacKenzie. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 4, Charles Irvin Barnes. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 5, Ernest Hugo Carlson. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 6, Charles Hubbell. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 7, Robert and Margaret McNaughton. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 8, Carla and Fritz Renken-Goebel. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 9, Herman B. Mill. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 10, Mrs. Agnes Balaoing. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 11, Mayer Hansen. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 12, Harold Field. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 13, George Folea. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 14, John Arabonas. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 15, Nicholas and Elizabeth Patronas. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 16, Ingeborg, Alice and Roy Glasenapp. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 17, George Demos. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 18, Agnes Brentrup. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 19, Charles Leaskas. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 20, Marie Carroll. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 21, Mrs. Eva Hoyt. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 22, Joseph Finck. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 23, Pauline Thompson. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 24, Robert, Herbert, George and William Braucks. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 25, Max Niemeier. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 26, George A. Chunis. | |||||||||||
| Case File No. 27, (Pierre) Helene Veyra. | |||||||||||
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Japanese Americans -- Minnesota -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Minnesota -- Civilian relief.
- Organizations:
- Minnesota. Department of Public Welfare.
- Minnesota. Division of Social Welfare.
- Functions:
- Coordinating.
- Funding.
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