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Akamine and Fuchita Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2018-045
Abstract

This collection includes letters, certificates, photographs, scrapbooks, high school yearbooks, oral history interviews, and other material related to the Akamine, Fuchita, and Yasumura families. Subjects in the collection include the Manzanar and Rowher incarceration camps, Koyasan Buddhist Temple, Buddhism, World War II, and other topics. Most of this collection is digitized and available online.

Dates: circa 1880-December 20, 1996

"American Buddhist" [newsletter]

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SPC-2021-015
Abstract This collection contains 21 issues of "The American Buddhist", a six-page monthly publication of the Buddhist Churches of America featuring articles and news on Buddhism. "The American Buddhist" was for English speaking members, while its counterpart, "Horin" was for Japanese speaking members. The purpose of "The American Buddhist" was to provide information regarding events and celebrations; as well as articles that focused on Buddhist traditions and principles. In 1974, the newsletter...
Dates: July 1957-September 1960; October 1961; June 1967

Glenn M. Anderson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-1983-001
Abstract This collection comprises papers related to the long political career of Glenn M. Anderson, who served in California as mayor of the city of Hawthorne, as State Assemblyman, and as Lieutenant Governor, then represented the state in the House of Representatives. The wide-ranging collection contains legislation, reports, correspondence, scrapbooks, newsletters, audio-visual material, and other items recording Anderson’s deep involvement in the political issues facing California and the United...
Dates: 1870s-2000; Majority of material found in 1940-1994

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

City of Gardena Japanese Cultural Show Photograph Albums

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-1900-032
Abstract

This collection includes five photograph albums from the City of Gardena Japanese Cultural Show sponsored by the Gardena Valley Gardeners Association. The albums contain newspaper clippings, photographs, programs, and invitation letters for the event. Topics include Japanese American gardeners, bonsai, ikebana, Japanese gardens, martial arts, and other topics related to the event and the Nikkei (Japanese American) community.

Dates: 1980-1986

Collection of Japanese Language School Textbooks

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2022-003
Abstract

This collection includes Japanese grade-school textbooks and textbooks from The Compton Japanese School. Also included is a Chinese penmanship table.

Dates: 1957-1963

Collection of Nisei Week Festival Programs

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2019-040
Abstract

This collection contains programs from the Nisei Week Japanese Festival in Little Tokyo, California. Some items in this collection have been digitized and are available online.

Dates: August 1949-2019

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

Henry Fukuhara Paint Out Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2011-002
Abstract

The focus of the Henry Fukuhara Collection is the art, life, and work of watercolor artist Henry Fukuhara. It includes photographs and notes from various workshops called "paint-outs," held at former Japanese American concentration camps. The collection also includes photographs from exhibits, hand painted correspondence, flyers, gallery information, books, magazines, news clippings, and DVD's. Some of this collection has been digitized and is available online.

Dates: 1992-2011

Jimmy Fukuhara Manzanar Camp Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2019-026
Abstract

This collection contains one box of photographs, letters, flyers, postcards, booklets, newspaper clippings, newspapers, and notes related to Jimmy Fukuhara, the Fukuhara family, and the Manzanar incarceration camp.

Dates: 1978-2013

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Subject
Japanese Americans 32
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 32
Japanese American families 21
Japanese Americans -- California 18
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- United States 9
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Japanese Americans -- California, Southern 7
Japanese Americans -- Reparations 7
Manzanar War Relocation Center 7
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History 7
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans 7
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
Torrance (Calif.) 3
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 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
Panoramas 2
Photograph albums 2
Reparations for historical injustices -- United States 2
Aerial photography 1
Alabama Hills (Calif.) 1
Alcatraz Island (Calif.) 1
Amache (Colo.) 1
Arts 1
Automobiles, Racing 1
Berkeley (Calif.) 1
Bills, Legislative 1
Bonsai 1
Buddhist temples 1
Buddhist youth 1
California -- Politics and government -- 1951- 1
California -- History 1
California -- Politics and government 1
California -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 1
Camp Shelby (Miss.) 1
Carmel (Calif.) 1
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
Elections -- California 1
Exhibitions -- California -- San Francisco 1
Family-owned business enterprises 1
Feminism 1
Festivals and events 1
Fish canneries 1
Fishery law and legislation -- California 1
Fishing stories, American 1
Florists 1
Flower arrangement, Japanese 1
Fort Lincoln (Burleigh County, N.D.) 1
Gardens, Japanese--California, Southern 1
Gender identity 1
Gila River (N.M. and Ariz.) 1
Haiku 1
Harbors -- California -- Long Beach 1
Harbors -- California -- Los Angeles 1
Harbors -- Law and legislation -- California 1
Higher education and state -- California 1
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Language
English 66
Japanese 29
Korean 1
Spanish; Castilian 1
 
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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Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress 4
Jerome Incarceration Camp 3
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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