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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

Sylvester (Owen M.) Tule Lake Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2016-012
Abstract

This collection contains one box of photographic images taken by Captain Owen M. Sylvester while at Tule Lake Segregation Center during a military occupation as a member of the 772 Military Police Battalion in 1943. This collection is digitized and available online.

Dates: 1942-1943

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

Takano Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2017-004
Abstract This collection contains materials from members of the Takano and Meguro family in Los Angeles, California, including Issei immigrants, Itsuhei and Tomoye Takano and Kumaji and Tsuruno Meguro, and their Nisei children, Fumio Fred and Yoneko (Meguro) Takano, Yoshiko Ruth Meguro, and Leo Ryoichi Meguro. The papers covers from prewar through post-war, including the period of the forced evacuation and incarceration during World War II, U.S. military service in Europe druing the war and in Korea...
Dates: 1906-1991; undated

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

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

Terminal Island/Port of Los Angeles Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2018-042
Abstract

This collection contains of over 400 black-and-white negatives and photographic prints of Terminal Island, Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro, Port Hueneme, and Catalina Island, taken between 1938 and 1947. Photographs include businesses, residences, airports, warehouses, coastlines, railroads, and neighborhoods. The collection has been digitized and most of the material is available online.

Dates: 1938-December 1947

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Japanese Americans 32
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 32
Japanese American families 21
Japanese Americans -- California 18
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Japanese Americans -- California, Southern 8
Japanese Americans -- Reparations 7
Manzanar War Relocation Center 7
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History 7
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Concentration Camps -- United States 6
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1944-1945 -- Archives 6
Japanese Americans -- History -- 20th century 6
Japanese American newspapers 5
Japanese American soldiers 5
Japanese Americans -- California 5
Japanese Americans -- Civil rights 5
Reparations for historical injustices 5
Terminal Island (Calif.) 5
World War, 1939-1945 -- Forced removal of civilians -- United States 5
Buddhism 4
Civil rights 4
Gardena (Calif.) 4
Japan 4
Japanese Americans -- Pacific States -- History -- 20th century 4
Little Tokyo (Los Angeles, Calif.) 4
Los Angeles (Calif.) 4
Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.) 4
Tule Lake Relocation Center (Calif.)--1940-1950 4
World War, 1939-1945 4
Gila River Relocation Center 3
Japan -- Emigration and immigration -- History 3
Japanese American farmers -- California 3
Korean War, 1950-1953 3
Manzanar (Calif.) 3
Newell (Calif.) 3
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Tulelake (Calif.) 3
World War, 1939-1945 -- California 3
Carson (Calif.) 2
Central Utah Relocation Center 2
Japan -- History -- 20th century 2
Japanese American Farmers 2
Japanese American poetry 2
Japanese American soldiers -- History -- 20th century 2
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- History -- Sources 2
Japanese Americans -- History 2
Japanese Americans -- Social life and customs 2
Lawndale (Calif.) 2
Long Beach (Calif.) 2
Manzanar War Relocation Center--1940-1950 2
Oral history 2
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Reparations for historical injustices -- United States 2
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California -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 1
Camp Shelby (Miss.) 1
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Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 1
Communism -- California 1
Correspondence 1
Crystal City (Tex.) 1
Crystal City Internment Camp (Crystal City, Tex.) 1
Discrimination in education -- California 1
Disneyland (Calif.) 1
Education, Higher -- California 1
Educational equalization -- California 1
Educational law and legislation -- California 1
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Family-owned business enterprises 1
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Festivals and events 1
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Fishery law and legislation -- California 1
Fishing stories, American 1
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Fort Lincoln (Burleigh County, N.D.) 1
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Names
Poston Incarceration Camp 9
Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp 7
Gila River Incarceration Camp 5
Manzanar Incarceration Camp 5
Tule Lake Segregation Center 5
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Jerome Incarceration Camp 4
Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress 4
Military Intelligence Service Language School (U.S.) 3
Minidoka Incarceration Camp 3
Santa Anita Assembly Center (Calif.) 3
Tule Lake Incarceration Camp 3
California State University, Dominguez Hills 2
California. Legislature. Assembly 2
Collins, Wayne M. 2
Fukuhara, Henry 2
Fukuhara, Jimmy 2
Hata, Donald Teruo, 1939- 2
Takano, Itsuhei, 1887-1967 2
Anderson, Glenn M. 1
Brown, Edmund G. (Edmund Gerald), 1905-1996 1
Buddhist Churches of America 1
California Community Colleges 1
California State University and Colleges 1
California. Governor 1
California. Governor’s Commission on the Los Angeles Riots 1
California. Legislature 1
California. Legislature. Senate 1
California. Legislature. Senate. Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities in California 1
California. National Guard 1
Carter, Jimmy , 1924- 1
Cranston, Alan , 1914-2000 1
Democratic Party (Calif.) 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Fukuwa, Dianne Michiko 1
Fukuwa, Hiroshi, 1914-2013 1
Furutani, Warren, 1947- 1
Gardena Valley Gardners Association 1
Granada (Amache) Incarceration Camp 1
Gripsholm (Ship) 1
Haug , Lona 1
Herzig, John A., 1922-2005 1
Historical and Cultural Foundation of Orange County 1
Ikemoto, Henry, 1923-2009 1
Ishibashi, Akira 1
Ishida, Atsushi Art, 1921- 1
Iwasaki, Taye 1
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 1
Kawabe, Kenji, 1886-1973 1
Kawamoto, Tazu 1
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 1
Kihara, Ted 1
Koyama, Shinkichi 1
Kuromi, Corrine Nobuko Nishimura 1
Kuromi, Hitoshi 1
Kuwahara, June Ikuko, 1930- 1
Kuwahara, Tatsuya, 1925- 1
Kuwahara, Terry 1
Lowers, Virginia B. 1
Maeda, Satoru, 1922-2017 1
Matsuoka, Jim 1
Mayeda, Fumiyo 1
McFarling, Joseph Ralph 1
Meguro, Kumaji, 1878-1957 1
Meguro, Leo Ryoichi 1
Meguro, Ruth Yoshiko 1
Meguro, Tsuruno, 1894-1985 1
Military Prison at Alcatraz Island, California 1
Miyamoto, Atushi Archi 1
Mizufune, Midori 1
Mizufune, Suniko 1
Mochizuki, Yukio 1
Nakai, Tsuyoshi Roy 1
Nakano , George 1
Nakano, Kiyomi, 1910- 1
Nakano, Roy 1
Nanka Fukushima Kenjinkai. 南加福島県人会 1
Naohara, George, 1919-2014 1
Naohara, Mitzi, 1923-2021 1
Ninomiya Family 1
Ninomiya, Elwin 1
Ninomiya, Kinso 1
Nishimura, Arthur 1
Nishimura, Yemiko 1
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1944 1
Ogo, Hideo 1
Ogo, Mohei 1
Oku, Toshio, 1925-2010 1
Provinse, John Henry , 1897-1965 1
Reagan, Ronald 1
Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.) 1
Sato, Dale Ann 1
Seiji, Fujiye Frances 1
Spicer, Edward H., 1906-1983 1
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing ), 1835-1914 1
Sylvester, Owen M. 1
Takano, Fumio F. (Fumio Fred), 1914-1989 1
Takano, Jeanne 1
Takano, Tomeyo, 1889-1979 1
Takano, Yoneko, 1918-2007 1
Tenney, Jack B. (Jack Breckinridge ), 1898-1970 1
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