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CSU Japanese American Digitization Project Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2014-008
Abstract The central focus of the California State University Japanese American Digitization Project is the digitization and access to primary materials related to the history and progress of Japanese Americans in their communities. An enormous range of subjects and archival materials central to Japanese-American life before, during, and after World War II are in this digital collection including: letters, photographs, oral histories, camp publications, papers of camp administrators and counselors,...
Dates: 1915-1994

Warren Furutani Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2012-001
Abstract The Warren Furutani Collection documents the breadth and duration of Warren Furutani’s four year service as a member of the California State Assembly for the 55th District. Furutani was elected to the California State Assembly on a special primary Election in 2007, replacing fellow Democrat Laura Richardson. He served the 55th District from February 7, 2008 until November 30, 2012. He was the last representative of the 55th district to represent the South Bay, Gardena, Carson, Lakewood, and...
Dates: 2008-2012

The Gripsholm Exchanges (Manuscript). Memoir by Atushi Archi Miyamoto

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2004-004
Abstract

This collection consists of a manuscript/memoir written by Atushi Archi Miyamoto about the Gripsholm Exchanges, or the exchanges of civilians and Prisoners of War, between the United States and Japan during World War II.

Dates: 2007; 2012

Heart Mountain Sentinel

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2019-041
Abstract

This collection contains newspapers from the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. Some of the newspapers have been digitized and are available online.

Dates: January 1 - March 31, 1945

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

Hiroji Hosaka Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2020-034
Abstract The Hiroji Hosaka Family Letters is comprised of 30 letters and postcards, a copy of Hiroji Hosaka's FBI case file, photographs, and business cards. The letters are correspondence between him and his family members and friends mainly while he was imprisoned in the Santa Fe Internment Camp and the Heart Mountain incarceration camp during World War II. The family letters describe the pressing situations that the family faced such as closing his hotel business and selling their properties in a...
Dates: 1937 October-1962 October 29; Majority of material found within 1942-1945

Ikemi Family Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: SPC -2021-035
Abstract

This collection includes seventy digitized photographs documenting the life of the Ikemi family before, during, and after World War II. Images in the collection include photographs of friends and family of the Ikemi family, including June and Julie Sugimoto, and incarcerated Japanese Americans at the Poston Incarceration Camp.

Dates: circa 1900, 1937-March 1950; Majority of material found within 1944 - 1947

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

Tsugitada Kanamori Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2016-002
Abstract

This collection contains one box of documents belonging to Tsugitada Kanamori. Materials in this collection mostly pertain to Kanamori’s efforts regarding cancelling his renunciation and reinstating his American citizenship. This collection has been digitized and is available online.

Dates: 1948-1958

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Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 14
Japanese Americans 12
Japanese American families 9
Japanese Americans -- California 9
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- United States 9
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans 7
Concentration Camps -- United States 5
World War, 1939-1945 -- Forced removal of civilians -- United States 5
Japanese Americans -- Pacific States -- History -- 20th century 4
Japanese Americans -- Reparations 4
Tule Lake Relocation Center (Calif.)--1940-1950 4
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History 4
World War, 1939-1945 4
Japanese Americans -- History -- 20th century 3
Newell (Calif.) 3
Terminal Island (Calif.) 3
Tulelake (Calif.) 3
World War, 1939-1945 -- California 3
Japan -- History -- 20th century 2
Japanese American farmers -- California 2
Japanese American newspapers 2
Japanese American soldiers 2
Japanese Americans -- Civil rights 2
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- History -- Sources 2
Photograph albums 2
Reparations for historical injustices 2
Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.) 2
Berkeley (Calif.) 1
Bills, Legislative 1
Camp Shelby (Miss.) 1
Carson (Calif.) 1
Central Utah Relocation Center 1
Civil rights 1
Correspondence 1
Disneyland (Calif.) 1
Family-owned business enterprises 1
Fish canneries 1
Fishing stories, American 1
Fort Lincoln (Burleigh County, N.D.) 1
Gardena (Calif.) 1
Gila River Relocation Center 1
Haiku 1
Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
Interviews 1
Japan 1
Japan -- Emigration and immigration -- History 1
Japanese -- California, Southern -- History 1
Japanese American art 1
Japanese American soldiers -- History -- 20th century 1
Japanese American veterans 1
Japanese Americans -- California 1
Japanese Americans -- Biography 1
Japanese Americans -- California, Southern 1
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Anecdotes 1
Japanese Americans -- History 1
Japanese Americans -- Social life and customs 1
Lakewood (Calif.) 1
Land tenure -- Law and legislation 1
Lawndale (Calif.) 1
Little Tokyo (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
Long Beach (Calif.) 1
Los Angeles (Calif.) 1
Lourenço Marques (Mozambique) 1
Manuscripts, Japanese 1
Manzanar (Calif.) 1
Manzanar War Relocation Center 1
Manzanar War Relocation Center--1940-1950 1
Marmagao (India) 1
Martial law -- United States 1
Nursing 1
Oral history 1
Panoramas 1
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 1
Photographs, original 1
Portraits 1
Poston (Ariz.) 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 1
United States -- Armed Forces -- Japanese Americans 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
University High School (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
War brides -- United States 1
Women cannery workers 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- United States 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Japanese 1
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Language
English 24
Japanese 11
 
Names
Poston Incarceration Camp 6
Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp 5
Collins, Wayne M. 2
Gila River Incarceration Camp 2
Santa Anita Assembly Center (Calif.) 2