PARTNER
Densho
Visit partner
COLLECTION ID
ddr-densho-336
DESCRIPTION
The Lake Sequoia Retreat Archive Collection consists of photographs and documents from the Lake Sequoia Retreat (LSR), a summer camp for Japanese American Christian youth which ran from 1946 until 1990. This retreat was organized after Japanese Americans returned to California after World War II. It was organized by the Central California Young People's Christian Conference and Nisei leadership and gathered young people from around Central and Northern California. The Lake Sequoia Retreat Archive is the creation of Brad Shirakawa, longtime camp attendee and photographer. You can visit the official Lake Sequoia Retreat Archive site at https://lakesequoiaretreat.wordpress.com/.
INCLUSIVE UNIT DATE
1946-1990
BULK UNIT DATE
c.1970-1990
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
~1,900 photographs and documents
CONTRIBUTOR
Densho
CREATORS
PREFERRED CITATION
Courtesy of the Lake Sequoia Retreat Archive Collection, Densho
RIGHTS
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
1912 Objects
![June Kitagawa standing on the lakefront (ddr-densho-336-1)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/82/7b/827b1e6470fe5ba9ef06f77f6252bfde.jpg)
![June Kitagawa having fun at the lake (ddr-densho-336-2)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/25/e0/25e0415492b5ec78d4a953db06e8a0d0.jpg)
![June Kitagawa sitting on a rock near the lake (ddr-densho-336-3)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/d6/ee/d6ee21b74c5e97c470f0492dc60db371.jpg)
![Ron Koda sitting on a rock (ddr-densho-336-4)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/bb/b6/bbb6a3cd2581382bbdd0deabd49f15d3.jpg)
![Ron Koda next to a tree stump (ddr-densho-336-5)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/4e/08/4e08914faa00cd87c1d3cbd532fffc57.jpg)
![Lilyan Nagata and Mollie Abe sitting on a rock (ddr-densho-336-6)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/3b/89/3b89215ef1125e91e6f22de5f69f3da6.jpg)
![Lilyan Nagata and Mollie Abe sitting on a rock (ddr-densho-336-7)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/e3/3d/e33d52ee9631bb5108e60a8d73219f3d.jpg)
![Betty Wake and Lilyan Nagata sitting on a rock (ddr-densho-336-8)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/ef/ce/efce134bac69b6ec44134f77579d1c61.jpg)
![Group of women sitting on stairs (ddr-densho-336-9)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/4b/b7/4bb73c9ec7d2db2e8dc64c5873a28014.jpg)
![Betty Abe and Lilyan Nagata drinking water out of a ladle (ddr-densho-336-10)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/8f/e1/8fe1a4b3b9245a7b335e5775c57092ec.jpg)