Scope and Contents This series contains an album of Tsuruno Meguro's trip to Japan in 1938; photographs of the Japanese American community in Colorado in the 1920s and 1930s; the 1938 Rose Parade; the Japanese American community in California after the war; the Takano family’s relatives in Japan; and wartime and post-war Japan.The Meguro family resided in Colorado in the 1920s and 1930s prior to moving to California. There are photographs of Japanese schools and public schools which Yoneko Meguro...

Scope and Contents Materials include letters and postcards from Fumio Fred Takano's family members as well as copies of his letters to his non-Japanese American friend. Most of the letters were written during the war and the contents of his letters include discussions regarding his efforts to seek assistance from his Caucasian friend; management of his property in Los Angeles, California during the war; and discussions regarding shipping the family's belongings from Los Angeles to the Gila River incarceration...

Scope and Contents Included are letters that Sukegoro and Chiyoko Tawa (田和助五郎・千代子) received from their family and friends between the 1920s and 1950s. The senders of the prewartime letters include: Katsumi "Kokki" and Seiko Miyake, who were Japanese watercolor artists; Rosho Toyotake (豊竹呂昇), or Naka Nagata (永田仲), who was a female gidaiyu, that is, a Japanese puppet theatre narrator and musician; Koshun Murakami (村上孝俊), a Buddhist priest in Okayama, Japan; Tomojiro Kunitomi (國富友次郎), who was an educator and the...

Scope and Contents Included are two messages sent from Atsushi Art Ishida's mother, Saku Ishida, in Hiroshima, Japan to him and his brother, Takashi Ishida. The messages were initially sent to their address in Artesia, California where they resided prior to the forced evacuation, but later forwarded to the Jerome incarceration camp in Arkansas where they were incarcerated. Delivered with the assistance of the Red Cross, including Société de la Croix-Rouge du Japon, Comité international de la Croix-Rouge,...

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This series contains materials regarding the Takano family's background information. Included are an Imperial Japanese Government passport; a marriage license and certificate; birth registration; death certificate; diplomas and certificates; college and school yearbooks; graduation programs; a medical certificate; documents regarding the Takano family’s property; social security documents; wills; diaries; a personal narrative; and funeral and obituary information.

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Fictional works manuscripts series comprises of a manuscript and afterword for "時代小説蟬丸傳奇 Jidai shosetsu Semimaru denki, translated as "Historical novels: stories of Semimaru," that are original and fictional stories authored by Kiyoshi Uyekawa, and two fictitious works by Japanese authors, Fuzo Hayashi and Eiji Yoshikawa, which Kiyoshi Uyekawa copied out by hand. All were written and copied during his incarceration in the Tutle Lake camp.

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This subseries includes financial contracts, travel receipts, World War II ration books, World War II incarceration camp material, verification of incarceration information from the General Services Administration National Archives and Records Service, children's artwork, travel diary, personalized photograph calendars, address books, and other material.

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photographs (photocopies); notes; article regarding Palos Verdes farmer

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains articles of incorporation; correspondence; documents related to budgets, accounting, and other financial information; tax documents; bank statements; receipts; invoices; documents related to dissolution; and other material. This series also contains some flyers, pamphlets, clippings, and material related to projects and performances that were originally part of a binder and was kept together as a way to maintain original order. For more material regarding projects see...

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Includes flyers for "The T Show"; "Suite Sixteen" CD release party; "I Love Chocolate/Just Us"; "Namaste Mi Amor"; "Art of Resistance"; "Seed Game"; "Ant Hymn"; "Lo Cal Frozen Blues"; "Introspective Retrospective"; "Inside the River"; "LA Menu Munchies"; "As Above So Below"; "Cafe Collage"; anniversary parties; "Asphalt Opera"; and others.