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Tazu Kawamoto Photo Album Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2016-013
Abstract This collection contains one album of mostly photographs compiled by Tazu Kawamoto that document various people, events, and activities throughout 1939-1943. Materials in this collection include: photographs, flyers, invitations, and business cards relating to Tazu Kawamoto’s personal life, with a focus on events during the World’s Fair on San Francisco’s Treasure Island in 1939. The photographs are most likely taken inside the Gila River Incarceration Center in Arizona, including a...
Dates: 1939-1943

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

Kuromi Photo Album Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2017-012
Abstract

This collection contains two photograph albums and material related to Hitoshi "Yoke" Kuromi and Corrine Nobuko Nishimura Kuromi. Subjects in the collection include the Kuromi family, the Gila River incarceration camp, and hot rods. All of this collection is digitized and some of the material is available online.

Dates: circa 1940-1960; 1970-1972

Virginia B. Lowers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2016-004
Abstract This collection contains one box of three letters addressed to Virginia B. Lowers, a former high school teacher at University High School in Los Angeles, California. The letter from Masaru Teshiba contains information regarding his experiences as an incarceree mostly while at Tule Lake Segregation Center, the letter from Thomas A. Reeves details his combat experiences, and the letter from W.W. [Escherich] describes events during his trips to Maui, Tientsin China, and Okinawa. All of the...
Dates: 1945-1946

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

Jim Matsuoka Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress Records

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2020-019
Abstract This collection includes flyers, newspaper clippings, organizational documents, agendas, publications, books, and other materials related to the Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress (NCRR) organization, formally known as the National Coalition for Redress and Reparations, and one of its founding members, Jim Matsuoka. It also includes material related to the Little Tokyo People’s Rights Organization (LTPRO), Japanese Americans, Japanese Latin Americans, Little Tokyo, and incarceration...
Dates: 1967-April 27, 2019

McFarling (J. Ralph) Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2011-005
Abstract

This collection contains materials generated by J. Ralph McFarling, a Community Analyst for the War Relocation Authority, documenting the Amache Incarceration Camp in Granada, Colorado where Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II. Some of this collection has been digitized and is available online.

Dates: 1943-2007; Majority of material found within 1943-1946

Minidoka Incarceration Camp Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2018-056
Abstract

This collection contains one photograph album mostly depicting life at the Minidoka Incarceration Camp located in South Central Idaho during World War Two. The album contains images of life inside and presumably outside the camp. It also features photographs of Ben Kuroki, a Japanese-American who served in the United States Army Air Force during World War Two. The photo album has been digitized and is available online.

Dates: circa 1943

Mochizuki (Yukio) Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-1998-003
Abstract

Colleciton of notes, articles, correspondence, photographs, and term papers collected by Yukio Mochizuki, a student at CSUDH, while researching Japanese-American and Japanese-Peruvian internment during World War II.

Dates: 1942-1998

Tsuyoshi Roy Nakai Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2019-021
Abstract This collection includes reports, agendas, meeting minutes, student guides, books, and a panoramic photograph related to the Manzanar Incarceration Camp, the Nakai family, and the Treasure Chest Program in Orange County. The collection mostly contains material from the Treasure Chest Program in Orange County, a multicultural educational program by the Multicultural Arts Council of Orange County. Other material in the collection, such as the reports and books, relate to the Nakai family and...
Dates: circa 1942-2010; Majority of material found within 1990-1994

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Japanese Americans 21
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Gila River Relocation Center 3
Japan -- Emigration and immigration -- History 3
Japanese American newspapers 3
Japanese Americans -- Pacific States -- History -- 20th century 3
Manzanar (Calif.) 3
Newell (Calif.) 3
Tule Lake Relocation Center (Calif.)--1940-1950 3
Tulelake (Calif.) 3
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History 3
World War, 1939-1945 -- California 3
Central Utah Relocation Center 2
Japanese American soldiers -- History -- 20th century 2
Japanese Americans -- History -- 20th century 2
Little Tokyo (Los Angeles, Calif.) 2
Los Angeles (Calif.) 2
Manzanar War Relocation Center--1940-1950 2
Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.) 2
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Japanese American painters 1
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Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp 6
Poston Incarceration Camp 4
Collins, Wayne M. 2
Gila River Incarceration Camp 2
Hata, Donald Teruo, 1939- 2
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Manzanar Incarceration Camp 2
Santa Anita Assembly Center (Calif.) 2
Anderson, Glenn M. 1
Brown, Edmund G. (Edmund Gerald), 1905-1996 1
California Community Colleges 1
California State University and Colleges 1
California State University, Dominguez Hills 1
California. Legislature. Assembly 1
California. Governor 1
California. Governor’s Commission on the Los Angeles Riots 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
Fukuhara, Henry 1
Granada (Amache) Incarceration Camp 1
Haug , Lona 1
Historical and Cultural Foundation of Orange County 1
Ikemoto, Henry, 1923-2009 1
Iwasaki, Taye 1
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 1
Kawamoto, Tazu 1
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 1
Koyama, Shinkichi 1
Kuromi, Corrine Nobuko Nishimura 1
Kuromi, Hitoshi 1
Lowers, Virginia B. 1
Maeda, Satoru, 1922-2017 1
Matsuoka, Jim 1
Mayeda, Fumiyo 1
McFarling, Joseph Ralph 1
Military Intelligence Service Language School (U.S.) 1
Military Prison at Alcatraz Island, California 1
Minidoka Incarceration Camp 1
Mizufune, Midori 1
Mizufune, Suniko 1
Mochizuki, Yukio 1
Nakai, Tsuyoshi Roy 1
Nakano , George 1
Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress 1
Ninomiya Family 1
Ninomiya, Elwin 1
Ninomiya, Kinso 1
Nishimura, Arthur 1
Nishimura, Yemiko 1
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1944 1
Provinse, John Henry , 1897-1965 1
Reagan, Ronald 1
Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.) 1
Seiji, Fujiye Frances 1
Spicer, Edward H., 1906-1983 1
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing ), 1835-1914 1
Sylvester, Owen M. 1
Takano, Itsuhei, 1887-1967 1
Tenney, Jack B. (Jack Breckinridge ), 1898-1970 1
Terada, Emiko 1
Terada, Usami 1
Toma, Kimiya 1
Toshima, Paul Junji , 1930-2010 1
Tule Lake Incarceration Camp 1
Tule Lake Segregation Center 1
United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California 1
United States. Marine Mammal Commission 1
United States. War Relocation Authority 1
United States. Congress . House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation 1
United States. Congress. House 1
United States. Congress. House. Committee on merchant Marine and Fisheries 1
University of California (System) 1
Wada, Joe, 1930-2013 1
Wada, Kan, 1889-1974 1
Wada, Marion 1
Wada, Tomoji, 1882-1964 1
Wakayame, June 1
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