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Collection Bob and Masa (Ogawa) Nakayama Collection (ddr-densho-420)

The Bob and Masa (Ogawa) Nakayama Collection consists of 43 photographic prints and a graduation announcement documenting Bob and Masa's experiences during World War II. Included are scenes from life in Manzanar and Minidoka concentration camps, as well as from military life both in the United States and abroad.

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Collection Arai and Kawaguchi Family Collection (ddr-densho-430)

The collection contains materials (photos, documents, journals, and ephemera) related to the Arai and Kawaguchi families, including documents related to the family's incarceration at Minidoka and relocation. Particularly, the life and work of architect Allen Kichio Arai, who designed the Seattle Betsuin Buddhist Temple in 1940, including blueprints and design notes for the project.

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Collection James Seigo Miwa Family Collection (ddr-densho-437)

The collection contains materials from James Seigo Miwa's family, with a focus on James Seigo Miwa's arrest and detainment during World War II, and his son Lawrence Miwa's lawsuit against the Office of Alien Property to recoup the family's properties and business assists seized by the US government during World War II.

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Collection Dell Uchida Collection (ddr-densho-439)

Collection of 17 photographs of the Minidoka and Tule Lake concentration camps.

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Collection Roy Takai Collection (ddr-densho-440)

The Roy Takai collection contains 2 photographs, one of the Santa Fe Detention Center's Broadcast Section circa 1944, one of a farewell party in Seattle circa 1939, and a letter explaining the two photographs.

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Collection Hirokichi "Harry" Hayashi Family Collection (ddr-densho-441)

Collection of documents and photographs related to the Hayashi family and their nursery business in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Collection Wakaichi "Buck" Ohashi Family Collection (ddr-densho-442)

Wakaichi "Buck" Ohashi Family Collection is a photo album of the Ohashi family. The album primarily contains photographs of the Ohashi family and the Japanese American community in Ketchikan, Alaska prior to WWII. Jasomatsu "George" Ohashi (1872-1934) immigrated to Ketchikan, Alaska around 1900 with his wife Shika, leaving his young son Wakaichi “Buck” in Japan. He …

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Collection Bakerfield High School Archive Collection (ddr-densho-448)

1943 graduation program from Denson High School

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Collection Joh Sekiguchi Collection (ddr-densho-450)

The Joh Sekiguchi Collection consists of one binder of research documents. Joh compiled the information for a presentation on the incarceration given in 1994. The research includes copies of the Inyo Museums Newsletter, maps, and other documents related to Manzanar.

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Collection Emil Sandquist Family Collection (ddr-densho-452)

The Sandquist collection consists of a portrait of Emil Sandquist, a board game with two sets of instructions, and a letter written in both English and Japanese. The letter is from Emil Sandquist to his son, Robert "Bobby" Sandquist, from the Portland Assembly Center.

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Collection Masaki Kinoshita Poetry Collection (ddr-densho-453)

Collections includes three notebooks of Japanese poetry composed by various poets and scribed by Masaki Kinoshita, two at the Portland Assembly Center, one at Minidoka. And one small booklet of Japanese poetry. The books have been translated by Shelley Baker-Gard, Michael Frieling, and Satsuki Takikawa, and will be published in May of 2023 as: They Never …

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Collection Yoshiye (Handa) Yasuda Collection (ddr-densho-454)

Yoshiye (Handa) Yasuda Collection contains two photographs of 3rd grade classes, honeymoon plans for Tetsu and Yoshiye Yasuda, and a magazine containing images of the great Alaskan earthquake in 1964. Yoshiye's husband, Tetsu, built one of the only surviving piers in the earthquake and was called on to help redesign the pier.

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Collection Benjamin Gosney Collection (ddr-densho-455)

Letter to Benjamin Coleman Gosney from Tomio Itabashi who describes his time at the Pinedale Assembly Center and his move to Tule Lake. Itabashi was a former co-worker of Gosney's and attended high school with Gosney's daughter.

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Collection Shigaki Family Collection (ddr-densho-456)

Photos of Shigaki and Kawakami family in camp and immediately after returning to Seattle. Includes a set of photos of making mochi.

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Collection Morooka Family Collection (ddr-densho-457)

The Morooka Family Collection consists primarily of letters from three siblings, Amy, John, and Martha, to close family friend Violet Sell. The Morooka siblings write to Violet regularly with updates on their experiences at Tulare Assembly Center, Gila River, and after leaving camp. They keep Violet posted on their efforts to participate in the small church …

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Collection Haruko Nagaishi Collection (ddr-densho-459)

11 photographs depicting life of the Nagaishi family before, during, and after WWII. Most photos show Hasuko Nagaishi.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-459/

Collection J. Egashira Collection (ddr-densho-46)

The J. Egashira collection, early 1900s-1930s, contains images from Days, Washington. This collection documents the work and leisure activities of the Nakashima family, who owned a dairy farm.

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Collection Hiroshi Eguchi Collection (ddr-densho-460)

1 photograph containing an image of Asian American students at a conference in front of UW building.

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Collection Tommy Howard Collection (ddr-densho-461)

Copy of surrender documents from Japanese government surrender to Allied forces

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Collection Naomi Higaki Family Collection (ddr-densho-458)

108 photographs documenting the Higaki family. Naomi Higaki grew up in Redwood City, California where he attended school and graduated from Sequoia Union High School in 1942. When World War II started the family (except for Naomi's father Nobuo who had been sent to a detention camp) moved to Kimberly, Idaho in April 1942 where they …

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Collection Mary Mon Toy Theatrical Collection (ddr-densho-367)

The Mary Mon Toy Theatrical Collection includes photographs, playbills, clippings of reviews, programs and scripts from Mary Mon Toy's performance career as a singer and actress in nightclub and Broadway productions. The scrapbooks include personal messages from admirers and fellow performers.

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Collection Lake Sequoia Retreat Archive Collection (ddr-densho-336)

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 …

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Collection Frank Honda Postcard Collection (ddr-densho-497)

A collection of postcards from Frank Honda to his girlfriend Iku Morita from his postings across Europe in the fall and winter of 1944.

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Collection Kazuo Otani Collection (ddr-densho-469)

The Kazuo Otani Collection includes some of the Otani family's documents from Gila River and booklets published by the Gila News-Courier summarizing the first and second years of the time spent by inmates at Gila River. The Otani Collection also includes the 1997 memory book from the Gila River Relocation Camp reunion and booklets related to …

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Collection Kazuyoshi Kawata Collection (ddr-densho-496)

Written accounts from Kazuyoshi Kawata about his life as a Japanese American, his experience in internment, and his experience serving in World War II.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-496/

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