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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

Atsushi Art Ishida Collection

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Identifier: SPC-2019-031
Abstract The Atsushi Art Ishida Collection is comprised of about 900 photographs (prints, negatives, and digital reproductions) and other materials chronicling his time immediately after/during his incarceration in the Santa Anita Assembly Center in California, the Jerome incarceration camp in Arkansas, the Tule Lake Segregation Center in California, and the Minidoka incarceration camp in Idaho, and also depicting his time in pre-war Japan and during the Korean War. Most of the items in this...
Dates: circa 1930-1959; 1995

Hiroshi Fukuwa Manzanar Diary

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Identifier: SPC-2019-034
Abstract

This collection consists of a diary written by Hiroshi Fukuwa, Kibei Nisei of Los Angeles, California, along with newsletters, clippings, and handwritten notes created/collected in the incarceration camps during World War II. The diary details his incarceration experiences in the Manzanar camp in California, the Gila River camp in Arizona, and the Tule Lake camp in California. All materials in this collection are born-analog objects (digital reproductions).

Dates: 1942-1945

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

Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga Papers

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Identifier: SPC-2018-058
Abstract

This collection includes correspondence, media, publications, photographs, manuscripts, documents, and other materials related to Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga's life and work related to activism and social justice. Subjects in the collection include Redress and Reparations, the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, Japanese American incarceration, and Aiko's personal life. Some material has been digitized and is available online.

Dates: circa 1900-December 1, 2018; Majority of material found within 1980-2018

Kiyoko Maeda Yoshioka Photographs

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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

Iwasaki Family Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2022-010
Abstract

This collection includes eleven digitized photographs about the Akahoshi family. Images include school portraits, family photographs, and other portraits. All items in this collection have been digitized and are available in the archvies.

Dates: circa 1920-1945

Janice Yen Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2022-043
Abstract

This collection includes flyers, newspaper clippings, organizational documents, press releases, issues of "Banner," digitized photographs, and other material related to the Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress (NCRR), formally known as the National Coalition for Redress and Reparations. It also includes material related to the Little Tokyo People's Rights Organization (LTPRO), Japanese Americans, and Japanese American redress. This collection contains some digitized material.

Dates: 1981-2019

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

Paul Junji Toshima Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2018-009
Scope and Contents The Paul Junji Toshima Collection (1942-1953) contains 640 photographs and a painting belonging to Paul Junji Toshima. The bulk of the photographs were taken during the Korean War when Toshima served in a military intelligence unit. The images within the albums include photographs of Prisoners of War and the shelters they were held, secret military mission code-named Operation Little Switch, a variety of photographs of the truce talks and switching of Prisoners of War on both sides, an 8x10...
Dates: 1942-1953

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Japanese Americans 32
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Japanese American families 21
Japanese Americans -- California 18
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Japanese Americans -- California, Southern 8
Japanese Americans -- Reparations 7
Manzanar War Relocation Center 7
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History 7
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Concentration Camps -- United States 6
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1944-1945 -- Archives 6
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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
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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
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Tulelake (Calif.) 3
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Carson (Calif.) 2
Central Utah Relocation Center 2
Japan -- History -- 20th century 2
Japanese American Farmers 2
Japanese American poetry 2
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Manzanar War Relocation Center--1940-1950 2
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Camp Shelby (Miss.) 1
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Crystal City Internment Camp (Crystal City, Tex.) 1
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Educational law and legislation -- California 1
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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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Jerome Incarceration Camp 4
Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress 4
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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