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African American Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2021-003
Abstract This collection contains photograph albums, as well as single and loose photographs featuring images of African Americans. Images depict families; children; soldiers; and infants in a variety of settings and participating in many activities such as parties and events; holidays such as Christmas and Easter; inside and in front of homes; in front of cars; birthdays; churches; parks; vacations; and others. Also included in this collection are school, graduation, and military portraits; and some...
Dates: circa 1880s-2010s; Majority of material found within 1940-1980

African American Press Photographs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SPC-2021-018
Scope and Contents The African American Press Photographs Collection (1944-1999; undated) contains two boxes of 237 black-and-white and 2 color photographs related to news stories that predominantly featured African Americans. A majority of the images measure 8 x 10" and have detailed news agency captions on the back. Some images also include the headlines or clippings that the photographs were used with. Included are images related to a wide variety of topics such as pop culture; local interest stories;...
Dates: 1944-1999; undated; Majority of material found within circa 1970s-1990s

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

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

Thomas F. Barton papers

 Collection
Identifier: HLL-2019-005
Abstract

This collection includes the personal and professional papers of Thomas F. Barton, an anti-war activist and socialist who organized soldiers against the Vietnam and Iraq wars. It includes newsletters, articles, correspondence, meeting minutes and agendas that document Barton’s involvement with various anti-war and socialist organizations, and the distribution, founding, and publishing of various anti-war newsletters.

Dates: 1964-2015; Majority of material found within 2003-2005

Castro Family Photograph Album

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SPC-2024-011
Scope and Contents The Castro Family Album Collection (1937-1942; undated) contains one photo album and 0.21 linear ft. of material. The box contains photos of the Castro family and friends in the 1930s and 1940s. Several of the photos were taken and developed in photo studios in the Los Angeles area. Additionally, there are several photos taken in Tijuana, Mexico, photos of men dressed in Navy uniforms, photos in front of camps, working on a car, portraits of children, a photo of Navy men dedicated to his...
Dates: circa 1930s-1940s; undated

Cesena Family Photograph Album

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SPC-2020-032
Abstract This collection contains one photograph album featuring images of the Cesena family and their friends. A majority of the photographs consists of portraits of the family; images of friends the Cortez and Marquez families; images featuring orchards and farms; images taken outside the family home; photographs taken during World War II of men in uniform and images taken at various Army bases; and images taken at weddings, bridal showers, other gatherings, and family vacations. This collection...
Dates: 1933-1978; undated

Mike J. Chavez World War Two Letters

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2018-043
Abstract

This collection contains letters that were mostly sent by D-Day veteran, Mike J Chavez to his wife Stella Chavez during his tour in World War II. Also included in this collection are letters from Percy Chavez to Mrs. Mike Joe Chavez; a draft of a eulogy for Mike Chavez written by one of his children; a copy of a program for the "Jubilee of Liberty, Normany Beach 1944" award ceremony; one copy of "Stars and Stripes" Vol. 5, No. 195; and empty War Department envelopes.

Dates: 1944-2001; Majority of material found within 1944-1945

Vincent "Frank" Chavez Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2020-006
Abstract

The Vincent "Frank" Chavez Photograph Album includes photographs documenting Chavez' military service, Mexican-American family life in California from the late 1940s through the 1980s, and clippings and ephemera relating to life as a Vietnam Veteran.

Dates: circa 1940s-1980s

Chicano/Latino Family Photograph Albums

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2021-011
Scope and Contents This collection contains seven photograph albums comprised of 856 mostly black-and-white photographs belonging to a Southern California Chicano/Latino family. A majority of the photographs were taken in the 1950s and depict the family and their friends posing with dogs; in front of yards; in homes; at the beach; at the beach and Pike amusement park in Long Beach, CA.; camping trips; during holidays; and possibly during family vacations. Other photographs include: school portraits; cars;...
Dates: 1939-1958; undated

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California State University Dominguez Hills, Gerth Archives and Special Collections 36
Holt Labor Library at CSU Dominguez Hills 1
 
Subject
Japanese American families 23
Japanese Americans 12
Japanese Americans -- California 8
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 8
Photographs 6
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Mexican American families 5
Photograph albums 5
Japanese American soldiers 4
Los Angeles (Calif.) 4
Manzanar War Relocation Center 4
Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.) 4
World War, 1939-1945 4
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- United States 4
African American children -- Photographs 3
African American families -- Photographs 3
Japan 3
Japanese American farmers -- California 3
Mexican Americans 3
Terminal Island (Calif.) 3
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans 3
African American families 2
Central Utah Relocation Center 2
Families 2
Families of military personnel 2
Family life 2
Family vacations 2
Gardena (Calif.) 2
Japan -- History -- 20th century 2
Japanese American Farmers 2
Japanese American newspapers 2
Japanese Americans -- History -- 20th century 2
Japanese Americans -- Reparations 2
Lawndale (Calif.) 2
Letters 2
Oral history 2
Torrance (Calif.) 2
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History 2
United States -- History, Military -- 20th century 2
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Forced removal of civilians -- United States 2
African American newspapers 1
African American radio broadcasters 1
African American soldiers 1
African American television journalists 1
African Americans in radio broadcasting 1
Agricultural laborers 1
Berkeley (Calif.) 1
Buddhism 1
California -- Politics and government 1
Camp Shelby (Miss.) 1
Carson (Calif.) 1
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 1
Concentration Camps -- United States 1
Correspondence 1
Disneyland (Calif.) 1
Families of military personnel -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 21st century 1
Farms -- California 1
Fish canneries 1
Fishing stories, American 1
Florida 1
Fort Huachuca (Ariz.) 1
Friendship 1
Gila River Relocation Center 1
Hawaii -- Description and travel 1
Hispanic American families 1
Holidays 1
Interviews 1
Iraq War, 2003-2011 1
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Protest movements -- United States 1
Japan -- Description and travel 1
Japanese American art 1
Japanese American photographers 1
Japanese American soldiers -- History -- 20th century 1
Japanese American veterans 1
Japanese Americans -- California 1
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Caricatures and cartoons 1
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Newspapers 1
Japanese Americans -- Biography 1
Japanese Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- 1940-1950 1
Japanese Americans -- California, Southern 1
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Research 1
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1944-1945 -- Archives 1
Japanese Americans -- History 1
Little Tokyo (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
Local government -- California 1
Long Beach (Calif.) 1
Manzanar (Calif.) 1
Manzanar War Relocation Center--1940-1950 1
Massachusetts 1
Mexican American soldiers 1
Mexicans 1
Mexico 1
New York (N.Y.) 1
Newspapers 1
North Carolina 1
Nursery growers -- California 1
Nursing 1
Orchards 1
Palos Verdes Peninsula (Calif.) 1
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Language
Japanese 9
Spanish; Castilian 2
 
Names
Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp 3
Poston Incarceration Camp 3
United States. Army 2
Barton, Thomas F. 1
Bishop, Pilar Cesena , 1916-2013 1