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Kim Muramoto Collection (ddr-densho-466)
Collection consists of three photo album, primarily of Kimitomo Muromoto's military service in WWII as part of the 442nd. Includes photos from training, posting in Europe and return home to the Northwest, and photos from reunions and commemorations.
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Takeo and Mitsuko (Nakahara) Isoshima Family Collection (ddr-densho-477)
The Isoshima and Nakahara Family Collection is a large genealogical photo album detailing the lives of Takeo Isoshima and Mitsuko "Mitzi" (Nakahara) Isoshima, and their extended families. The album spans beyond the Issei generation in Japan, to the early 2000s. The album details the each generation of the family and their lives, with a primary focus …
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Meriko Maida Collection (ddr-densho-494)
A memorial website to Meriko Maida's life. Includes biographical essays and photographs from Meriko's life. Meriko was born in Richmond, California to Torayoshi (Muraki) Maida and Kane Maida in 1920. She grew up in Richmond, traveling to Japan in 1937 to receive additional education. She returned to California in 1939. She and her family were incarcerated …
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Umeya Company Collection (ddr-densho-499)
Photographs, product packaging, product artwork, and promotional materials from the Umeya Rice Cake Co.
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Rev. Robert Inglis Collection (ddr-densho-498)
Reverend Robert Inglis provided kindness and charity to Japanese Americans as they were being removed from Oakland, California to Tanforan Temporary Assembly Center, Topaz War Relocation Center, and Jerome War Relocation Center. The bulk of this collection is correspondence from Japanese Americans thanking Rev. Robert Inglis for his help during their removal. Reverend Inglis also communicated …
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Shizuko and Shigenori Oiye Collection (ddr-densho-350)
The Shizuko and Shigenori Oiye Collection consists of photographs, works of art, correspondence, and documents related to the Oiye's life in Tacoma, Washington before the war, their removal to Tule Lake concentration camp, and their return to Seattle, Washington post-war. Included are drawings and paintings done by Shigenori Oiye while he was at Tule Lake, some …
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Francis and Nancy (Nagai) and Yoshida Family Collection (ddr-densho-495)
Photographs and memorabilia from the Yoshida and Nagai. The majority of the collection is arranged in a family history binder that tells the story of Francis and Nancy (Nagai) Yoshida and their respective families, children, and grandchildren.
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Makoto Mimaki Collection (ddr-densho-451)
The Makoto Mimaki Collection consists of photographs of Makoto's military service, primarily in Europe.
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Okano Family Collection (ddr-densho-359)
The Okano Family Collection is comprised of photographs, letters, and ephemera from the personal family collection of Pam Okano. The photographs depict the lives of the of the Kawamotos, Okanos, and Otsukas prewar in Japan and Western Washington, as well as during the war when the family was granted leave to work in Caldwell, Idaho, and …
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Naoko Wake Collection of Oral Histories of US Survivors of the Atomic Bombs (ddr-densho-1021)
This collection consists of ten interviews that historian Naoko Wake conducted in 2011-15 for her book American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Five of the interviews are with US survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, while the other five are with medical and legal professionals and community activists who …
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Topaz Museum Collection (ddr-densho-1013)
This collection consists of interviews conducted in partnership with the Topaz Museum, a volunteer, non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve the original site of the World War II Internment Camp near Delta, Utah, to interpret its impact on the internees, their families, and the citizens of Utah and to educate the public in order to …
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Watsonville - Santa Cruz JACL Collection (ddr-densho-1015)
This collection consists of interviews was conducted in partnership with the Watsonville - Santa Cruz chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League.For more information about the chapter, please visit www.watsonvillesantacruzjacl.org.
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Twin Cities JACL Collection (ddr-densho-1014)
This collection contains interviews conducted in partnership with the Twin Cities chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), an organization whose mission is to secure and maintain the human and civil rights of Americans of Japanese ancestry and others victimized by injustice.For more information about the Twin Cities chapter of the JACL, please visit …
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Emi Kuboyama, Office of Redress Administration (ORA) Oral History Project (ddr-densho-1020)
In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the evacuation and incarceration of Japanese Americans with Executive Order 9066. Forty-six years later, Congress sought to belatedly address this injustice with the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which established a process of redress for those harmed by 9066. Housed within the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, the …
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Whitworth College-North by Northwest Collection (ddr-densho-1016)
This collection contains interviews conducted by Whitworth College and North by Northwest Entertainment. The interviews were used in the making of the 2004 documentary In Time of War: The Japanese American experience of WWII, produced by Andrea Dilley and David Tanner.
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Raechel Donahue and Garrett Lindemann Collection (ddr-densho-1011)
This collection contains interviews conducted for the 2011 Documentary Heart Mountain: An All American Town, produced by Raechel Donahue and Garrett Lindemann.
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gayle k. yamada Collection (ddr-densho-1004)
The gayle k. yamada Collection consists of interviews conducted by filmmaker gayle k. yamada for her 2003 documentary, Uncommon Courage: Patriotism and Civil Liberties. The interviews are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on the interviewees' World War II experiences in the Military Intelligence Service.
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Friends of Manzanar Collection (ddr-densho-1003)
This collection consists of interviews conducted in partnership with Friends of Manzanar. The group's mission is to work with the National Park Service and other interested groups to preserve and restore the Manzanar site, and to interpret its stories, resources and lessons, for this and future generations.For more information about Friends of Manzanar, please visit …
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Emiko and Chizuko Omori Collection (ddr-densho-1002)
The Emiko and Chizuko Omori Collection consists of interviews conducted for filmmaker Emiko Omori's documentary Rabbit in the Moon, which aired on PBS in 1999. The film explores the conflict surrounding the resisters of conscience movement in the World War II concentration camps, as well as the divisiveness of the postwar Japanese American communities. The interviews …
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Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre Collection (ddr-densho-1006)
The interviews in this collection were conducted by the JC Legacy Project, a project of the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Cultural Centre is a community-based, not-for-profit, charitable organization that provides programs, events and facilities to promote an understanding and appreciation of Japanese culture and Japanese Canadian heritage for Canadians of all …
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Frank Miwa Collection (ddr-densho-475)
The collection is comprised of photographs primarily taken by Frank Miwa of family and friends before the war in the San Francisco Bay Area in California and at Poston in Arizona.
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Preserving California's Japantowns Collection (ddr-densho-1010)
This collection consists of interviews conducted in partnership with Preserving California's Japantowns, a project of California Japanese American Community Leadership Council (CJACLC), dedicated to documenting historic resources from pre-World War II Japantowns.For more information about the project, please visit www.californiajapantowns.org.Funding for these interviews was provided by a grant from the California State Library through …
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New Mexico JACL Collection (ddr-densho-1009)
This collection consists of interviews conducted by the New Mexico chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League.For more information about the chapter, please visit www.nmjacl.org.
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National Japanese American Historical Society Collection (ddr-densho-1008)
This collection consists of interviews conducted by the National Japanese American Historical Society (NJAHS), a nonprofit organization dedicated to the collection, preservation, authentic interpretation, and sharing of historical information of the Japanese American experience for the diverse broader national community. The interviews in this collection focus primarily on Japanese Americans who served in the Military Intelligence …
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Toru Araki and Umeko (Sasaki) Araki Collection (ddr-densho-490)
Two photographs of the wedding of Toru Araki and Umeko (Sasaki) Araki.