United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
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
Nanka Fukushima Kenjinkai Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2018-046
Abstract
This collection documents activties of Nanka Fukushima Kenjinkai. Materials include: photographs, books, booklets, news clippings, DVDs and CD recordings.
Dates:
1908-2014
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
Terminal Island Personal Histories Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2020-036
Abstract
The Terminal Island Personal Histories Collection features one transcribed oral history, one autobiography, and one possible rough draft edition of a book entitled, "Terminal Island: An Island in Time, Collection of Personal Histories of Former Islanders 1994-1995". All of the materials in this are available online.
Dates:
1994-1995
Wada Family Photographs
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2020-016
Abstract
The Wada family photographs features two negatives and ten pre-World War II images of mainly the Wada family as well as some images of members from the Ushijima family. Most of the items in this collection have been digitized and are available online.
Dates:
circa 1925-1940
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