Showing Collections: 1 - 10 of 19
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
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
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
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
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
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
Masumoto and Saito Family Photos
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2020-028
Abstract
The Masumoto and Saito Family Photos documents four generations of the Japanese American family in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California. Photographs depict the family’s businesses, trips, weddings, funeral, and others. Included are images of Jack Toshio Robert Masumoto’s trading company in San Francisco, Toraichi Okamoto’s produce store in Glendale, Southern California Sewing School in Little Tokyo, Japanese passenger ships, family outings such as trip to Golden Gate International...
Dates:
1920s-1950s
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
Toshio Oku Photo Album
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2020-012
Abstract
The Toshio Oku photo album comprises of a collection of photographs that primarily documents the life of Toshio Oku while he, his father, Naojiro Henry, mother, Misao, and sister, Hideko Louise, were incarcerated at Tule Lake Incarceration Camp in Newell, California during World War II. Most of the items in this collection have been digitized and are available online.
Dates:
1942-1946
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
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 10
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- United States 9
- Japanese Americans -- California 8
- Japanese Americans 7
- Japanese American families 6
- 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
- Japanese Americans -- History -- 20th century 3
- Newell (Calif.) 3
- Terminal Island (Calif.) 3
- Tulelake (Calif.) 3
- World War, 1939-1945 -- California 3
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans 3
- Japan -- History -- 20th century 2
- Japanese American farmers -- California 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
- Camp Shelby (Miss.) 1
- Civil rights 1
- Correspondence 1
- Family-owned business enterprises 1
- Fish canneries 1
- Fishing stories, American 1
- Fort Lincoln (Burleigh County, N.D.) 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 newspapers 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 -- Social life and customs 1
- Land tenure -- Law and legislation 1
- Lawndale (Calif.) 1
- Little Tokyo (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
- Los Angeles (Calif.) 1
- Lourenço Marques (Mozambique) 1
- Manuscripts, Japanese 1
- Manzanar (Calif.) 1
- Manzanar War Relocation Center 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
- Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.) 1
- Sanām Lūang (Bangkok, Thailand) 1
- Torrance (Calif.) 1
- Transcription 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 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 -- Personal narratives, American 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Japanese 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories 1
- Yokohama-shi (Japan) 1 ∧ less
- Language
- English 18
- Japanese 9
- Names
- Poston Incarceration Camp 5
- Collins, Wayne M. 2
- Gila River Incarceration Camp 2
- Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp 2
- Santa Anita Assembly Center (Calif.) 2
- Tule Lake Incarceration Camp 2
- Tule Lake Segregation Center 2
- California State University, Dominguez Hills 1
- Gripsholm (Ship) 1
- Ikemoto, Henry, 1923-2009 1
- Koyama, Shinkichi 1
- Lowers, Virginia B. 1
- Maeda, Satoru, 1922-2017 1
- Manzanar Incarceration Camp 1
- Matsuoka, Jim 1
- Military Intelligence Service Language School (U.S.) 1
- Minidoka Incarceration Camp 1
- Miyamoto, Atushi Archi 1
- Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress 1
- Ogo, Hideo 1
- Ogo, Mohei 1
- Oku, Toshio, 1925-2010 1
- Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.) 1
- Sylvester, Owen M. 1
- Takano, Itsuhei, 1887-1967 1
- Terada, Emiko 1
- Terada, Usami 1
- Uyekawa, Gary 1
- Uyekawa, Kiyoshi 1
- Uyekawa, Mitsuye Ogo 1
- Wada, Joe, 1930-2013 1
- Wada, Kan, 1889-1974 1
- Wada, Marion 1
- Wada, Tomoji, 1882-1964 1 ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more