Irene Yamamoto Family Papers

The Irene Yamamoto Family Papers (June 1921 - circa 2018) include correspondence, photographs, documents, and other material related to the Yamamoto family. Series one includes correspondence, postcards, thank you cards, holiday cards, and artwork sent mostly from members of the Yamamoto family to each other. Other correspondence in the series includes letters from the United States Department of Justice and printed email correspondence with printed photographs of the Mizota family. Series Two includes school-related material, such as yearbooks, report cards, and school correspondence for Grace Sakiyo Kaguni (Yamamoto), Lawrence Mineo Yamamoto, Don Yamamoto, Irene Yamamoto, and Bryan Yamamoto. The schools include McKinley High School, Honolulu Vocational SchooL, Theodore Roosevelt High School, and the Southern Campus University of Los Angeles.

Series Three contains documents related to the Yamamoto family. The first subseries include identification documents, marriage certificates, birth announcements and certifications, and wedding announcements. The second subseries contains funeral documentation, memorial cards, memorial programs, and sympathy cards for Lawrence Mineo and Grace Sakiyo Yamamoto. The last subseries includes material related to World War II and World War II incarceration, travel receipts and information, children's artwork, a trip diary, address books, personalized photograph calendars, and other material related to members of the Yamamoto family.

Series Four includes photographs, photographs albums, negatives, portraits, and mounted photographs. Most of the photographs are of members of the Yamamoto family, including Irene Yamamoto and her parents, Grace Sakiyo and Mineo Lawrence Yamamoto. Other photographs include Irene Yamamoto's travel photographs from Italy, Turkey, Japan, Hawaii, New Zealand, and Greece, along with additional travel photographs. Other photographs include birthday parties, anniversary parties, weddings, reunions, and other family events.

Series Five contains other material related to the Yamamoto family. This includes songbooks from Hawaii, a sushi cookbook, and other publications. It also contains 3 reel to reel tapes and one Kakuni family reunion CD.