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Densho documents the testimonies of Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated during World War II before their memories are extinguished. Densho offers these irreplaceable firsthand accounts, coupled with historical images, historical documents, and teacher resources, to explore principles of democracy and promote equal justice for all.
Densho's collections contain oral histories and primary sources that document the Japanese American experience from immigration starting in the late 1800s through redress in the 1980s, with a strong focus on World War II incarceration. The archives are growing as Densho continues to record oral histories and digitize historical materials.
394 Collections
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Tulare News Collection (ddr-densho-197)
This collection consists of issues of the Tulare News, which was the newspaper for the Tulare Assembly Center, California, open from April 20, 1942, to September 4, 1942. The newspaper provided information about activities and sports, living conditions, and the move to permanent camps.
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Turlock TAC Collection (ddr-densho-198)
This collection consists of issues of the Turlock TAC, which was the newspaper for the Turlock Assembly Center, California, open from April 30, 1942, to August 12, 1942. The newspaper provided information about activities and sports, living conditions, and the move to permanent camps.
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Walerga Wasp Collection (ddr-densho-199)
This collection consists of issues of the Walerga Wasp, which was the newspaper for the Sacramento Assembly Center, California, open from May 6, 1942, to June 26, 1942. The newspaper provided information about activities and sports, living conditions, and the move to permanent camps.
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Hiratsuka Collection (ddr-densho-200)
This collection contains photographs and documents from the family of Densho narrator Margaret Junko Morita Hiratsuka.The collection includes Ms. Hiratsuka's father's photos from the Santa Fe internment camp, New Mexico, as well as written testimonials from his friends and family asking for his release.
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Masao Sakagami Collection (ddr-densho-201)
This collection contains photographs and documents from the collection of Masao Sakagami. The photos were taken by Mr. Sakagami when he was serving with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II.
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Fujita Family Collection (ddr-densho-203)
The Fujita family collection consists of documents belonging to issei Frank Kumaichi Fujita. The letters and other documents relate to Mr. Fujita's alien status and his requests for travel permits and change of parole status.
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Hideo Takeuchi Collection (ddr-densho-204)
This collection consists of photographs from Hideo Takeuchi, who was in the Granada (Amache) concentration camp, Colorado, during World War II. Mr. Takeuchi was employed as a firefighter while in camp. While in camp, he purchased a Bessel 620 camera though a catalog and built a darkroom and enlarger to process his photographs.
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Bill Fuchigami Collection (ddr-densho-205)
This collection consists of documents and one photograph from Bill Fuchigami, who was in the Granada (Amache) concentration camp, Colorado, during World War II.
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Gates Family Collection (ddr-densho-211)
The Gates Family Collection, 1942-1943, contains correspondence from the Matsuda and Morishita families to Mrs. Charles Gates. The Gates, Matsuda, and Morishita families were friends in Seattle, Washington before the outbreak of World War II and the correspondence covers the Matsuda's and Morishita's life at Puyallup "Camp Harmony" Assembly Center, Washington and later at Poston (Colorado …
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Henrietta Schoen Collection (ddr-densho-223)
The Henrietta Schoen Collection consists of photographs, correspondence, and other ephemera collected by Henrietta Schoen during her time as head nurse at Santa Fe internment camp, New Mexico.
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The Northwest Times Collection (ddr-densho-229)
The Northwest Times Collections includes full editions of the newspaper, a Seattle-based Japanese American publication that ran from 1947-1955 (collection covers 1947-1951).
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Yoshio "Kokomo Joe" Kobuki Collection (ddr-densho-234)
The Yoshio "Kokomo Joe" Kobuki Collection contains approximately 30 photographs of jockey Yoshi "Kokomo Joe" Kobuki and his winning mounts (June 1941-October 1941). Includes races in Crescent City, Pleasanton, Fresno, and Eureka, CA.
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Yamashita Family Collection (ddr-densho-241)
The Yamashita Family Collection contains Kiyoshi Yamashita's undergraduate diploma, program, and honors bulletin, which the University of Washington sent to him while he was incarcerated at Tule Lake concentration camp, California (1942).
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Hatchimonji Collection (ddr-densho-242)
The Hatchimonji Collection contains 34 photographs of Kumezo Hatchimonji, his family, his store, farming, and Heart Mountain, c 1923-1956.
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Suzuki Family Collection (ddr-densho-243)
The Suzuki Family Collection contains photographs from Warren Suzuki. They cover life at Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho during the war and a pilgrimage back in later years.
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Taniguchi Family Collection (ddr-densho-252)
The Taniguchi Family Collection consists of one photograph album containing prints that record the history of the Taniguchi family from the early to later 20th century in both Japan and the United States.
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Harry Hiroshi Imamura Collection (ddr-densho-253)
The Harry Hiroshi Imamura Collection consists of 7 paintings by Harry Hiroshi Imamura. These paintings capture the journey to and life in Manzanar concentration camp, California. Mr. Imamura began painting in the 1970s after he sold his truckstop restaurant, the East Valley Cafe.
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Takeda Family Collection (ddr-densho-254)
The Takeda Family Collection contains a photograph and documents related to Senichiro Takeda's time at Tule Lake concentration camp, Californina, Seabrook Farms, and correspondence with Wayne M. Collins.
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Shimada Family Collection (ddr-densho-255)
The Shimada Family Collection consists of journals written by Taji Shimada from 1924 through 1971 and a number of photographs recording life as a farming family in Utah.
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Frice Family Collection (ddr-densho-257)
The Frice Family Collection consists of two documents. One is the Granada (Amache) Directory, a listing of all the incarcerees, staff members, and organizations in camp. And the other is a marriage scroll for Baba Nobuzo and Miye Kato.
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Ichikawa Family Collection (ddr-densho-258)
The Ichikawa Family Collection contains a photograph album with approximately 200 pictures of the Ichikawa family and their communities in Oregon (c.1935-1942) and Anderson Dam, ID (1945-c.1960). Added to the collection in 2018, a booklet written by Satoru Ichikawa about his parents' experience during World War II and documents from 1944-1946.
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Yasui Family Collection (ddr-densho-259)
The Yasui Family Collection consists of two photograph albums and 173 additional photographs belonging to Homer Yasui. The photographs document the Yasui family's life in Hood River, Oregon before the outbreak of World War II.
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Scene and Nisei Vue Collection (ddr-densho-266)
The Scene and Nisei Vue Collection contains complete copies of approximately 70 issues of two similar Nisei oriented pictorial magazines: Nisei Vue (1948-50) and Scene (1949-55).
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Tsuchida Family Collection (ddr-densho-271)
The Tsuchida Family Collection consists of documents related to Kiwamu Tsuchida's time in the United States army.
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Shyoko Hiraga Collection (ddr-densho-273)
The Shyoko Hiraga Collection consists photographs, postcards, and portraits related to the Hiraga family.