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Itsuhei Takano camp journal

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2019-033
Abstract The collection is comprised of seven volumes of the author's accounts from the time of the Attack on Pearl Harbor, during the mass removal and incarceration, and after being released from the Gila River camp. The collection documents his observation and thoughts on a variety issues during the war and the postwar time. Also included are some issues from the Gila River Co-op newsletters, which contain his essays, and Japanese translations of two English announcements presumably made by Captain...
Dates: 1941 December 7-1946 March 19

Gingo Tanaka Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2019-025
Abstract

This collection contains ephemera from Gingo Tanaka as well as newspaper publications and a booklet from the Gila Rivers incarceration camp. Most of this collection has been digitized and is available online.

Dates: September 14, 1942-July 1944

Tawa Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2022-021
Abstract

The collection consists of mainly letters to Sukegoro and Chiyoko Tawa from their family and friends between the 1920s and 1960s. Also included are wartime documents issued during the Tawas' incarceration and copies of Sukegoro Tawa's case file as well as family and friends' portraits, and haiku poems.

Dates: circa 1920-1960

Paul Junji Toshima Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2018-009
Scope and Contents The Paul Junji Toshima Collection (1942-1953) contains 640 photographs and a painting belonging to Paul Junji Toshima. The bulk of the photographs were taken during the Korean War when Toshima served in a military intelligence unit. The images within the albums include photographs of Prisoners of War and the shelters they were held, secret military mission code-named Operation Little Switch, a variety of photographs of the truce talks and switching of Prisoners of War on both sides, an 8x10...
Dates: 1942-1953

Kiyoshi Uyekawa Tule Lake Camp Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC -2019-030
Abstract The collection comprises of Tule Lake newsletters and bulletins, materials issued by the Pro-Japan group, 報國奉仕團 Hokoku Hoshidan (or Hoshi Dan), WRA publications, and incarceration documents that mostly belonged to Kiyoshi and Mitsuye Uyekawa. There are also Kiyoshi's manuscripts of original fictional works, copies of fictional works by Japanese authors, and correspondence, bulletins, and manuscripts by the haiku circle members. Most of the items in this collection have been digitized and are...
Dates: 1942-1980 ; Majority of material found within 1942-1946

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

Tomoji Wada Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2019-029
Abstract This collection contains materials regarding Tomoji Wada’s business on Terminal Island, California, immigration materials, and incarceration camp records pertaining to Tomoji Wada and his family. Included are taxes, receipts of expenses, and ledgers, receipts for his donations to Japanese American organizations, photographs, journals, notebooks, books, a metal seal stamp for Terminal Island Credit Union, immigration documents of Tomoji and Kan Wada, WRA documents, and wood carving tools and...
Dates: 1903-2016; undated

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 -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 14
Japanese Americans 13
Japanese American families 9
Japanese Americans -- California 8
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History 6
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Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1944-1945 -- Archives 5
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- United States 5
World War, 1939-1945 -- Forced removal of civilians -- United States 5
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
Community organization 2
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
Terminal Island (Calif.) 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans 2
Amache (Colo.) 1
Artists 1
Buddhist youth 1
California -- Politics and government 1
Carson (Calif.) 1
Central Utah Relocation Center 1
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 1
Concentration Camps -- United States 1
Correspondence 1
Directories 1
Family-owned business enterprises 1
Gardens, Japanese--California, Southern 1
Gila River Relocation Center 1
Haiku 1
Hawaii -- Description and travel 1
Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
Japan -- Description and travel 1
Japan -- History -- 20th century 1
Japanese American art 1
Japanese American farmers -- California 1
Japanese American gardeners -- California, Southern 1
Japanese American newspapers 1
Japanese American photographers 1
Japanese American soldiers -- History -- 20th century 1
Japanese Americans -- Monuments 1
Japanese Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Religious life and customs 1
Japanese Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- 1940-1950 1
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- History -- Sources 1
Japanese Americans -- History 1
Japanese Americans -- Pacific States -- History -- 20th century 1
Japanese Americans -- Reparations 1
Japanese periodicals 1
Lawndale (Calif.) 1
Little Tokyo (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
Local government -- California 1
Manuscripts, Japanese 1
Manzanar War Relocation Center 1
Manzanar War Relocation Center--1940-1950 1
Midwives 1
Multimedia (Art) 1
Newell (Calif.) 1
Nursery growers -- California 1
Nursing 1
Oral history 1
Palos Verdes Peninsula (Calif.) 1
Panoramas 1
Photograph albums 1
Photographs 1
Photographs, original 1
Poston (Ariz.) 1
Reparations for historical injustices -- United States 1
Sanām Lūang (Bangkok, Thailand) 1
Senryu 1
Theological students 1
Torrance (Calif.) 1
Tulare Lake (Calif.) 1
Tule Lake Relocation Center (Calif.)--1940-1950 1
Tulelake (Calif.) 1
Waka 1
War brides -- United States 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- California 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Japanese 1
Yokohama-shi (Japan) 1
artists' collectives 1
performance art 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