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Ninomiya Studio Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2016-006
Abstract This collection contains negatives, prints, directories, programs, correspondence, business material, and studio ephemera from the Ninomiya Studio that was located in the Little Tokyo district of downtown Los Angeles, California. The negatives and prints document Japanese American communities in the aftermath of World War II. Some of the images in the collection include photograps of architecture in Los Angeles and Little Tokyo, Nisei Week parades, community and religious groups, family and...
Dates: 1919-1944, 1949-1993; Majority of material found within 1950-1980

James H. Osborne Nisei Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2017-001
Abstract The James H. Osborne Nisei Collection contains mostly correspondence between Emiko and Usami Terada, incarcerees in the Rohwer incarceration camp, McGehee Arkansas, and the Thomas family in Lawndale, California and some photographs of the Teradas and the Thomases. The letters describe the trip from the Santa Anita temporary detention faciility to the Rohwer incarceration camp, their lives and conditions in the camp, and their concerns about their properties in Lawndale, California. Also...
Dates: 1941-1971, undated

Dale Ann Sato Collection

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Identifier: SPC-2016-011
Abstract The Dale Ann Sato Collection documents the progression of research and preparation for four projects to which oral historian and educator Dale Ann Sato contributed. Initial research and interviews were recorded for community Nisei oral histories, which led to her contribution to the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program (CCLPEP). The findings of the initial research also led to the Japanese American Historical Mapping Project (JAHMP), which paved the way for an Arcadia...
Dates: 1800-2012; undated; Majority of material found within 1930-2008

Sumi Family Manzanar Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2020-015
Abstract

The Sumi Family Manzanar Photographs includes two digitized photographs from the Sumi family, who were forceably removed to the Manzanar incarceration camp during World War II. Some of the material in this collection is digitized and available online.

Dates: circa 1944, 2018

Takahashi Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2020-013
Abstract The Takahashi Family Papers comprise of photographs from a family photo album, correspondence between the immediate Takahashi family, correspondence between Florence Griffen and her mother-in-law, Lois Griffen, transcripts of the correspondence, Yae Takahashi's original artwork, Dorothy Treakle's school report cards, Florence's short autobiography, newspaper clippings, church and Peace Corps papers, Poston incarceration camp Christmas cards, and more. All of this collection has been...
Dates: 1942-2013; Majority of material found within 1942-1969

Hideyuki and Betty (Tanji) Takamori Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2022-001
Abstract This collections contains digitized photographs, correspondence, and official documents related to the Hideyuki and Betty (Tanji) Takamori. Images in the collection include family photographs from the United States and Japan, travel photographs from Las Vegas, Santa Monica, Disneyland, San Francisco, and Hawaii, graduation photographs of young women from the Fashion Center, and other photographs related to the lives of the Takamori family. All of the items have been digitized and some of the...
Dates: 1900-1960

Terminal Island Personal Histories Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2020-036
Abstract

The Terminal Island Personal Histories Collection features one transcribed oral history, one autobiography, and one possible rough draft edition of a book entitled, "Terminal Island: An Island in Time, Collection of Personal Histories of Former Islanders 1994-1995". All of the materials in this are available online.

Dates: 1994-1995

Udo and Sasashima Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2021-034
Abstract

This collection contains kensho mawashi (sumo ceremonial belt), wooden bird pins, books, and photographs. Photographs in the collection include images of sumo wrestlers, sumo wrestling tournaments and events, photographs from Los Angeles, and family photographs in the United States and Japan.

Dates: circa 1900-1945; undated

Wada Family Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2020-016
Abstract

The Wada family photographs features two negatives and ten pre-World War II images of mainly the Wada family as well as some images of members from the Ushijima family. Most of the items in this collection have been digitized and are available online.

Dates: circa 1925-1940

Irene Yamamoto Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2022-022
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence, postcards, yearbooks, report cards, identification documents and certifications, World War II-related material, photographs, photograph albums, travel receipts and information, and other material related to the Yamamoto family. Subjects in this collection include World War II incarceration, Japanese American families, and travel.

Dates: June 1921 - circa 2018

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Japanese Americans 12
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Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 8
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Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.) 4
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- United States 4
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Japanese American Farmers 2
Japanese American newspapers 2
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Lawndale (Calif.) 2
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Oral history 2
Torrance (Calif.) 2
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Berkeley (Calif.) 1
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Sanām Lūang (Bangkok, Thailand) 1
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Tulare Lake (Calif.) 1
United States -- Armed Forces -- Japanese Americans 1
United States. -- Army -- Regimental Combat Team, 442nd 1
United States. Army. Field Artillery, 131st. Battalion, 2nd 1
United States. Army. Infantry Battalion, 100th 1
Women cannery workers 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Forced removal of civilians -- United States 1
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American 1
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