CSU Fresno Japanese Americans in World War II Collection

CSU Japanese American History Digitization Project
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ddr-csujad-7

The Japanese Americans in World War II collection contains both contemporary and contemporaneous materials about the incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II from the perspective of Japanese Americans, the United States government, and others.

See complete finding aid at: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf4n39n6th/

1920-1995

1942-1944

California State University, Fresno

[Identification of item], Japanese-Americans in World War II Collection, Sanoian Special Collections Library, California State University, Fresno.

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33 Objects

I am an American sign on the store front on December 8, 1941 (ddr-csujad-7-1)
img I am an American sign on the store front on December 8, 1941 (ddr-csujad-7-1)
Grocery store with a sign "I am an American" placed on its front on December 8, 1941. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMLSC_JA_f01
Sign on a barbershop door in Parker, Arizona,
img Sign on a barbershop door in Parker, Arizona, "Japs keep out you rats" (ddr-csujad-7-2)
Barbershop in Parker, Arizona, with sign "Japs keep out your rats." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMLSC_JA_f02
Fronts of two businesses owned by Japanese Americans forced to close after issuance of Executive Order 9066 (ddr-csujad-7-3)
img Fronts of two businesses owned by Japanese Americans forced to close after issuance of Executive Order 9066 (ddr-csujad-7-3)
Fronts of two businesses owned by Japanese Americans forced to close after issuance of Executive Order 9066. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMLSC_JA_f03
Signs announcing
img Signs announcing "evacuation" sale (ddr-csujad-7-4)
Signs announcing "evacuation" sale. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMLSC_JA_f04
Trucks preparing to transport
img Trucks preparing to transport "hand luggage" to assigned assembly centers (ddr-csujad-7-5)
Trucks preparing to transport "hand luggage" to assigned assembly centers, 1942. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMLSC_JA_f05
Mochida family ready to board a bus to an assembly center (ddr-csujad-7-6)
img Mochida family ready to board a bus to an assembly center (ddr-csujad-7-6)
Mochida family ready to board a bus to an assembly center, Hayward, California, May 8, 1942. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMLSC_JA_f06
Grandfather and his grandchildren waiting to be interned (ddr-csujad-7-7)
img Grandfather and his grandchildren waiting to be interned (ddr-csujad-7-7)
A grandfather and his grandchildren waiting to be incarcerated, Hayward, California, May 8, 1942. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMLSC_JA_f07
Man and child at Manzanar incarceration camp (ddr-csujad-7-8)
img Man and child at Manzanar incarceration camp (ddr-csujad-7-8)
An man and a child at Manzanar incarceration camp, Manzanar, California, July 2, 1942. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMLSC_JA_f08
Japanese Americans being
img Japanese Americans being "evacuated" by train (ddr-csujad-7-9)
Japanese Americans being "evacuated" by train. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMLSC_JA_f09
Japanese Americans boarding ship (ddr-csujad-7-10)
img Japanese Americans boarding ship (ddr-csujad-7-10)
Japanese Americans boarding ship to return to Japan, Seattle, Washington, November 24, 1945. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMLSC_JA_f10

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