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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

Horita Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2021-026
Abstract

The Horita Family Papers (1940-2010, undated) collection contains 2.6 linear feet of documents from the Horita family, a Japanese American family from the Los Angeles area. The collection focuses on married couple Chitoshi “Harry” Horita (1896-1990) and Marue Nakashima Horita (1901-1982) and their extended family and includes records of the family’s incarceration at the Poston (Colorado River) incarceration camp, research into the family’s history, photographs, and correspondence.

Dates: 1940-2010, undated

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

Ted Kihara Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2016-003
Abstract

This collection contains one box of photographic images taken by Ted Kahara, a World War II Japanese-American Infantryman and Intelligence Officer. Materials include: 35 mm slides and negatives, and photographs.

Dates: 1945-1964

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

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

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

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

Kiyoko Maeda Yoshioka Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2020-010
Abstract

The Kiyoko Maeda Yoshioka photographs collection (1916-1990, bulk 1937-1941) includes digital reproductions of family photographs primarily documenting the life of Kiyoko Maeda Yoshioka in the years before, during, and after World War II. The collection also includes digital reproductions of a short essay written by Hatsuko Mary Yoshioka Higuchi, redress papers, and a handout from a sewing class at Poston Incarceration Camp. All materials in this collection are digital reproductions.

Dates: 1916-1990; Majority of material found within 1937-1941

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Japanese Americans 5
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 4
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- United States 4
Japanese Americans -- California 3
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans 3
Japan -- History -- 20th century 2
Japanese American farmers -- California 2
Japanese American soldiers 2
Japanese Americans -- History -- 20th century 2
Japanese Americans -- Reparations 2
Photograph albums 2
Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.) 2
Terminal Island (Calif.) 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Forced removal of civilians -- United States 2
Berkeley (Calif.) 1
Camp Shelby (Miss.) 1
Central Utah Relocation Center 1
Concentration Camps -- United States 1
Correspondence 1
Disneyland (Calif.) 1
Family life 1
Family vacations 1
Fish canneries 1
Fishing stories, American 1
Gila River Relocation Center 1
Interviews 1
Japan 1
Japanese American art 1
Japanese American newspapers 1
Japanese American soldiers -- History -- 20th century 1
Japanese American veterans 1
Japanese Americans -- Biography 1
Japanese Americans -- History 1
Lawndale (Calif.) 1
Los Angeles (Calif.) 1
Manzanar War Relocation Center--1940-1950 1
Nursing 1
Oral history 1
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 1
Photographs, original 1
Racism 1
Reparations for historical injustices -- United States 1
Sanām Lūang (Bangkok, Thailand) 1
Savage (Minn.) 1
Tokyo (Japan) 1
Torrance (Calif.) 1
Transcription 1
Translators -- Japan 1
Tulare Lake (Calif.) 1
United States -- Armed Forces -- Japanese Americans 1
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History 1
United States. -- Army -- Regimental Combat Team, 442nd 1
United States. Army. Field Artillery, 131st. Battalion, 2nd 1
United States. Army. Infantry Battalion, 100th 1
Women cannery workers 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American 1
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Yosemite National Park (Calif.) 1
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Ikemoto, Henry, 1923-2009 1
Kihara, Ted 1