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The Asian Pacific Studies Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-1998-001
Abstract

The focus of the Asian Pacific Studies Collection is Japanese American evacuation and internment during World War II. This includes photographs, posters, newspapers, class reports, syllabi, and other materials about Japanese-American life in Los Angeles before World War II, evacuation, internment, and life following release from the camps. Materials were collected by a professor of history at CSUDH.

Dates: 1920-1993

Mike Hiranuma Family Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2018-057
Abstract

This collection contains photographs of the Hiranuma family and others at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. Images in the collection include barracks, incarcerees, and life at the camp. All of the items in this collection have been digitized and are available online.

Dates: 1942-1945

Ikemoto, (Henry) Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2014-006
Abstract The Henry Ikemoto collection includes materials on the Japanese American soldiers of the 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team, as well as Japanese-American evacuation and incarceration in camps during WWII. The materials are in the forms of correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, booklets, programs, newspaper and magazine clippings, photobooks, books, essays, and newsletters. Of special note are letters from American Red Cross volunteer Shirley Cobb to soldier...
Dates: 1942-2013

Japanese American History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2019-035
Abstract

This collection contains books, pamphlets, flyers, photographs, booklets, correspondence, periodicals, and oversized material related to Japanese Americans. Subjects in the collection include incarceration camps, Southbay local history, World War II propaganda, Japanese American families, incarceration camp pilgrimages, and other topics.

Dates: circa 1900-2014

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

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

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

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Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp 3
Hata, Donald Teruo, 1939- 1
Ikemoto, Henry, 1923-2009 1
Manzanar Incarceration Camp 1
Military Intelligence Service Language School (U.S.) 1