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Kenjinkai Publications

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2019-027
Abstract This collection consists of publications by prefectural associations, that is, "県人会 kenjinkais," in Southern California and Japanese Prefectural Association of Southern California, "南加県人会協議会 Nanka Kenjin Kyogikai." The organizations have compiled commemorative publications to celebrate their major anniversary milestones, and those publications are not widely known about but distributed among the members only. Anniversary booklets include an overview of their history, historical images,...
Dates: 1955-2014

Kobata Family Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2021-004
Abstract

This collection includes digitized photographs and a commemorative photo album related to the Kobata family. Images in the collection include the Kobata Nursery in Los Angeles, plants at the nursery, tour photographs of Japan, and portraits of the Kobata family. All of the items in this collection have been digitized and are available online.

Dates: 1902-1967; Majority of material found within 1910-1925

Kokusai Shashin Joho (the International Graphic)

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-1900-014
Scope and Contents This collection consists of nineteen issues of Kokusai Shashin Joho – “The International Graphic” Magazine from 1927-1931. Kokusai Shashin Joho, first published in 1922, documents current event photography in Japan and around the world. Each issue consists of photography, art prints, and larger fold-out prints. Included in one of the issues is the “Enthronement Pictorial Special Number” documenting Emperor Hirohito’s...
Dates: 1927-1932

Masajiro and Sugi Kotake Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2022-011
Abstract

This collection contains Imperial Japanese government passports; Board of Medical Examiners documents and cards; naturalization certificate; and a letter related to the Kotake family.

Dates: circa 1914-May 23, 1955

Kuwahara Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2018-040
Abstract

This collection documents the Kuwahara family's time at the Poston incarceration camp in Arizona during World War II. Materials include: newsletters from the schools and community in Poston's camp, photographs of the people incarcerated at the camp and the desert landscape, watercolor paintings of the camp facilities, and programs and booklets from the reunions of the Poston camp families. Some of the items in this collection have been digitized and available online.

Dates: 1943-2011

Manzanar Photo Album

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2019-024
Abstract

This collection contains one album with photographs and newspaper clippings related to the Manzanar incarceration camp, Santa Fe Japanese Baseball team, and the Koyasan Buddhist Temple in Los Angeles. It also contains oversized photographs of Japanese interior design. Most of this collection is digitized and available online.

Dates: 1942-1945; undated

Masumoto and Saito Family Photos

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Identifier: SPC-2020-028
Abstract The Masumoto and Saito Family Photos documents four generations of the Japanese American family in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California. Photographs depict the family’s businesses, trips, weddings, funeral, and others. Included are images of Jack Toshio Robert Masumoto’s trading company in San Francisco, Toraichi Okamoto’s produce store in Glendale, Southern California Sewing School in Little Tokyo, Japanese passenger ships, family outings such as trip to Golden Gate International...
Dates: 1920s-1950s

Hisashi Matsue Tanka Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2023-005
Abstract This collection comprises tanka poems authored by Hisashi Matsue, who is a master of tanka poetry, an instructor for the California Tankakai in Los Angeles, California, which mainly consists of the Japanese and Japanese American poets in Los Angeles, and the editor for their periodical magazine. Included are a complete set of the California Tankakai’s magazine, "California Tanka," published quarterly (1979-2021) and semiannually (2022-present) since 1979, a set of special issues published...
Dates: 1979-2024

George Nakano Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2017-014
Abstract

This collection contains books, booklets, proposals, printed newspaper articles, ephemera, and digitzed scrapbooks related to George Nakano, former Assemblymember and Torrance City Council member. Subjects include the Jerome and Tule Lake incarceration camps, the Nakano family, and George Nakano's political career. This collection contains digitized materials.

Dates: 1942-2010

Nanka Fukushima Kenjinkai Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2018-046
Abstract

This collection documents activties of 南加福島県人会 Nanka Fukushima Kenjinkai. Materials include: photographs, books, booklets, news clippings, DVDs and CD recordings.

Dates: 1908-2014

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Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 14
Japanese Americans 13
Japanese American families 9
Japanese Americans -- California 8
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Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1944-1945 -- Archives 5
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- United States 5
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Japanese Americans -- California, Southern 4
Japanese Americans -- History -- 20th century 4
Buddhism 3
Japan -- Emigration and immigration -- History 3
Japanese -- California, Southern -- History 3
Korean War, 1950-1953 3
Los Angeles (Calif.) 3
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Gardena (Calif.) 2
Japan 2
Japanese American Farmers 2
Japanese American poetry 2
Japanese American soldiers 2
Japanese Americans -- California 2
Japanese Americans -- Social life and customs 2
Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.) 2
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Amache (Colo.) 1
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Central Utah Relocation Center 1
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Poston (Ariz.) 1
Reparations for historical injustices -- United States 1
Sanām Lūang (Bangkok, Thailand) 1
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Torrance (Calif.) 1
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Tule Lake Relocation Center (Calif.)--1940-1950 1
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Poston Incarceration Camp 7
Tule Lake Segregation Center 6
Gila River Incarceration Camp 5
Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp 5
Jerome Incarceration Camp 4