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

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:

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

Tomoji Wada Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2019-029
Abstract This collection contains materials regarding Tomoji Wada’s business on Terminal Island, California, immigration materials, and incarceration camp records pertaining to Tomoji Wada and his family. Included are taxes, receipts of expenses, and ledgers, receipts for his donations to Japanese American organizations, photographs, journals, notebooks, books, a metal seal stamp for Terminal Island Credit Union, immigration documents of Tomoji and Kan Wada, WRA documents, and wood carving tools and...
Dates: 1903-2016; undated

Clifford Paul Weidenthaler Heart Mountain Construction Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2023-020
Abstract The Clifford Paul Weidenthaler Heart Mountain Construction Scrapbook (1942 June-October) comprises a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, a group photograph of engineers in the U.S. Army, and three custom buttons for construction projects along with a panorama of and a layout of Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp in Cody, Wyoming. The entire collection was digitized and is available online: ...
Dates: 1942 June-October