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Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

George Nakano Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2017-014
Abstract

This collection contains books, booklets, proposals, printed newspaper articles, ephemera, and digitzed scrapbooks related to George Nakano, former Assemblymember and Torrance City Council member. Subjects include the Jerome and Tule Lake incarceration camps, the Nakano family, and George Nakano's political career. This collection contains digitized materials.

Dates: 1942-2010

Ninomiya Studio Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2016-006
Abstract This collection contains negatives, prints, directories, programs, correspondence, business material, and studio ephemera from the Ninomiya Studio that was located in the Little Tokyo district of downtown Los Angeles, California. The negatives and prints document Japanese American communities in the aftermath of World War II. Some of the images in the collection include photograps of architecture in Los Angeles and Little Tokyo, Nisei Week parades, community and religious groups, family and...
Dates: 1919-1944, 1949-1993; Majority of material found within 1950-1980

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

Satoru Maeda Heart Mountain Photo Album

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2019-023
Abstract

This collection contains one photograph album mostly depicting life at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp in Cody, Wyoming. The album contains photographs of facilities, events, jobs, and others in the camp as well as few photographs taken during the prewar and postwar periods. Most of the items in this collection have been digitized and are available online.

Dates: circa 1930-1945; Majority of material found within 1942 May-1943 September

Sumi Family Manzanar Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2020-015
Abstract

The Sumi Family Manzanar Photographs includes two digitized photographs from the Sumi family, who were forceably removed to the Manzanar incarceration camp during World War II. Some of the material in this collection is digitized and available online.

Dates: circa 1944, 2018

Sylvester (Owen M.) Tule Lake Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2016-012
Abstract

This collection contains one box of photographic images taken by Captain Owen M. Sylvester while at Tule Lake Segregation Center during a military occupation as a member of the 772 Military Police Battalion in 1943. This collection is digitized and available online.

Dates: 1942-1943

Itsuhei Takano camp journal

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2019-033
Abstract The collection is comprised of seven volumes of the author's accounts from the time of the Attack on Pearl Harbor, during the mass removal and incarceration, and after being released from the Gila River camp. The collection documents his observation and thoughts on a variety issues during the war and the postwar time. Also included are some issues from the Gila River Co-op newsletters, which contain his essays, and Japanese translations of two English announcements presumably made by Captain...
Dates: 1941 December 7-1946 March 19

Gingo Tanaka Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2019-025
Abstract

This collection contains ephemera from Gingo Tanaka as well as newspaper publications and a booklet from the Gila Rivers incarceration camp. Most of this collection has been digitized and is available online.

Dates: September 14, 1942-July 1944

Tawa Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2022-021
Abstract

The collection consists of mainly letters to Sukegoro and Chiyoko Tawa from their family and friends between the 1920s and 1960s. Also included are wartime documents issued during the Tawas' incarceration and copies of Sukegoro Tawa's case file as well as family and friends' portraits, and haiku poems.

Dates: circa 1920-1960

Terminal Island/Port of Los Angeles Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2018-042
Abstract

This collection contains of over 400 black-and-white negatives and photographic prints of Terminal Island, Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro, Port Hueneme, and Catalina Island, taken between 1938 and 1947. Photographs include businesses, residences, airports, warehouses, coastlines, railroads, and neighborhoods. The collection has been digitized and most of the material is available online.

Dates: 1938-December 1947