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This folder contains various research publications by Peter T. Suzuki, specifically focusing on Japanese Americans and their experience during the wartime. As an anthropologist, he focused on the human condition and circumstance as a result of events. One of the main topics in these publications is his analysis of poetry and literature connected to Japanese Americans during the war. He examines poetry written from those in the internment camps and books written about these experiences, particularly Hiroshi Nokamura's Treadmill . Other topics are the process of relocation, prejudice, and the living conditions of these communities. He also analyses Japanese films in wartime Washington.

This folder contains a manuscript written by Peter T. Suzuki, titled "Linguistic Change in a Unique Cohort: Isseis, Kibeis, and Niseis in the World War II." Suzuki makes an analysis on the linguistic effects of relocation and interment that Japanese Americans experienced during World War II. He gives information on the population of Japanese Americans during this time, including the different terms that were used to specify whether they were first or second generation, and the ones that were born in America but received education in Japan. Suzuki compares assembly centers and relocation camps and how their rules affected the internees' speech. Some of the linguistic effects included certain pronunciation of words, slang, and commonly used phrases. These all were dependent on factors such as gender, generation, and experience. Each location had its own type of speech. Suzuki also states that this speech was dropped after they left the camps as they wanted to assimilate to an American life.

This folder contains a series of miscellaneous documents that focus on Japanese Americans during and after World War II.  There is a pamphlet from the Third International Symposium on Asian Studies, where Peter T. Suzuki analyzed Tanka and Sengryu forms of poetry written by Japanese Americans in the wartime camps. There is also a biographical manuscript written by Carroll Stewart on Ben Kuroki, a Nisei that served in World War II as an aerial gunner. This manuscript includes pictures and Kuroki' s experience in the war, including the prejudice he endured being a Japanese American. The folder also holds a program of the Veteran's Day tribute to Japanese American World War II Veterans in 2005, which contains historical photos of these veterans during and after the war. the program also has a DVD of these photographs and interviews with the veterans. Other documents include newsletters, reports, and  printed online articles relating to the Japanese American experience after the attack on Pearl Harbor, during the war, and post-war life.

Included inside a heavily damaged official folder: a written timeline of Borders' service recorded post-war, the veteran questionnaire submitted during donation (not completed by Borders) a cartoon pamphlet from a separation center outlining the final discharge process, discharge documents, a US Navy "rating description" outlining Borders' work experience to future employers, various certificates of completion for training courses, newspaper clippings, a document from the British government intended to explain to indigenous islanders on how to assist US troops, a map of Torokina airfields in Bougainville, information about and documents relating to the National Service Life Insurance, a pamphlet on the educational benefits entitled to Borders under the G.I Bill, and various unit commendation documents,

Mary Moody's glasses; tooth in watch casing, pulled by W.B. Moody, 1911.

(1) plastic cup, Coca-Cola Bottling Company, with Centennial logo on side.

Posters and special history tabloid produced for the separate Chipley Centennial celebration. [5 pieces]