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Kazuichi Takanishi Collection (ddr-densho-314)
The Kazuichi Takanishi Collection is comprised of government documents the family gained through the Freedom of Information Act. The documents detail Takanishi's arrest after Pearl Harbor, his interrogation, internment, parole to Chicago, Illinois, and return to Hawaii after the war ended.
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Robert Tadashi Ishii Family Collection (ddr-densho-546)
Collection of family photographs and correspondence from the Ishii family discovered in the family store El Amigo after it's sale in the 1970s.
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Kuwahara Family Collection (ddr-densho-363)
Photograph of the wedding party at Sam Sakamoto and Hanaye (Fujiwara) Sakamoto's wedding. The photograph was taken by Frank C. Hirahara. To view more photographs of the Sakamoto wedding and other photographs taken by Frank C. Hirahara please visit the Japanese American Museum of Oregon's Frank C. Hirahara Collection.
Heart Mountain photographs concentrating on Kimi Kuwahara …
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Tadashi Ishida Collection (ddr-densho-535)
The bulk of the collections consists of letters written by Tadashi Ishida to his parents from his time in the military during WWII. Includes descriptions of his training, posting overseas to Italy during the final year of the war, and his post-war service in Italy. Several letters are from friends or family of the Ishida's written …
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Toru Miyoshi Family Collection (ddr-densho-480)
The Toru Miyoshi Family Collection includes negatives retrieved from the basement of the family’s drug store in Santa Maria, California. The collection also includes the 1934-1935 Southern California Nisei Directory, which includes information on Japanese Americans living and working in Southern California, and the 1940-1941 Commemorative Issue 2600th anniversary Yearbook and Directory, primarily for Japanese Americans …
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Masahachi Nakata Collection (ddr-densho-551)
Collection contains a portrait of Issei businessman Masahachi Nakata
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Kaneji and Sally (Fujii) Domoto Collection (ddr-densho-329)
Accessions 1-2: The Kaneji and Sally (Fujii) Domoto collection consists mostly of correspondence to Kaneji Domoto from his wife Sally, and his sisters Wakako and Yuriko. The letters primarily date between 1942 and 1952, when Kaneji was on the East Coast looking for work and his family was held at Amache, and after WWII when his …
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Kimiko Fujii Kitayama Collection (ddr-densho-433)
The Kimiko Fujii Kitayama Collection consists of materials related to the Fujii family's incarceration at Topaz Concentration Camp, Kimiko's time in college, her work as a florist and with various community organizations, and diaries from later in her life. The collection is in large part made up of meeting notes and other materials related to her …
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Ben Mayewaki Collection (ddr-densho-563)
The collection contains materials from and related to Ben Mayewaki time serving the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) at Fort Snelling in Minnesota, with the 5th Air Force Headquarters in Brisbane, Australia, and in the New Guinea campaign. In 1944 Ben was reassigned to Military Intelligence in Washington DC and attached to the Pentagon. While in D.C. …
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Wakako Domoto Collection (ddr-densho-443)
Collection consists of a photo album kept by Wakako Domoto of her travels, her friends, siblings, nieces and nephews, and documents from her time at Amache.
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Hashiguchi and Urakawa Family Collection (ddr-densho-474)
The Hashiguchi and Urakawa Family Collection, c. 1908-1977, consists of photographs, periodicals, and commemorative books belonging to the Hashiguchi and Urakawa family. Included are photographs of numerous Japanese-American societies, including the the Seattle Progressive Citizen League, the Tacoma Sectional YPCC, Seattle Domeki Bai, Nikkei Kai, and the JACL conventions in 1930 and 1967. The collection includes …
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Kris Domoto Marubayashi Collection (ddr-densho-444)
Newsletters, pamphlets and documents related to the organizing work of the Anti-Bakke Coalition and other student organizations opposing the 1978 Bakke Decision, 1979 Sears Lawsuit and other anti-affirmative action legislation. Collection includes copies of student newsletters from Asian Student Unions at various California universities.
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Kaneji Domoto Architecture and Landscape Photograph Collection (ddr-densho-377)
The Kaneji Domoto Architecture and Landscape Photograph Collection consists of slides, negatives, and photographic prints documenting the career of Kaneji Domoto. The majority of the images come from between the 1960s and 1980s, showing projects he designed both in process and completed.
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Eleanor (Spainer) Fitzgerald Collection (ddr-densho-556)
A collection of 21 photographs from Eleanor (Spainer) Fitzgerald, an obstetrics nurse at Rohwar from 1944-1945.
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Loni Ding Oral History and Film Research Collection (ddr-densho-1007)
The Loni Ding Oral History and Film Research Collection contains documents, correspondences, periodicals, testimonies, newspaper clippings, interview transcriptions, ephemera, speeches, booklets and programs, book reviews, press releases, and photographs. There are also A/V materials in Betacam, U-matic, Betamax, VHS, audio cassettes, and reel-to-reel formats. The A/V materials contain first-person interviews, b-roll footage, and archival film footage. …
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Lordsburg Times Collection (ddr-densho-536)
The Lordsburg Times or Lordsburg Jiho is a periodical published at the Lordsburg detention facility, written primarily in Japanese. Physical copies are held at the University of California, Los Angeles Library Special Collections.
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Hiroshi and Lillie (Yamato) Komai Collection (ddr-densho-562)
The Hiroshi and Lillie (Yamato) Komai Collection consists of the couple's wedding scrapbook, which contains ephemera from their bridal shower, wedding, and first anniversary. Mainly consisting of cards to the couple in celebration of their union. Additionally, the scrapbook contained the couple's vows and photographs from their honeymoon, a road trip in California. Finally, there are …
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Kuwada Family Colletion (ddr-densho-560)
Collection consists primarily of a report with personal narratives and associated documents from the Kuwada family experiences at Assembly Centers and Minidoka and Tule Lake Camps, including 1942 Minidoka yearbook and program from Tule Lake Pilgrimage.
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Shimose Family Collection (ddr-densho-545)
The Shimose Family collection consists of photographs documenting life at the Jerome concentration camp as well as military training service during WWII.
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National Archives and Records Administration: Sailing Lists of Repatriates and Persons Returning to Hawaii (ddr-densho-564)
Lists of Japanese civilians repatriated to Japan or returned to Hawaii
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Newell Star Collection (ddr-densho-284)
The Newell Star Collection contains items collected by the Ina Family, including editions of the Newell Star and Tule Lake Cooperator newspapers as well as various documents distributed to those residing at the Tule Lake incarceration camp from 1944-1946. Note: not all editions of the Newell Star appear in this collection.
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Takasugi Family Collection (ddr-densho-331)
The Takasugi Family Collection contains photographs and documents related to Minoru and Mitsuye (Sano) Takasugi and their family's life at Rohwer concentration camp. Topics include: Minoru and Mitsuye's wedding, their children, and life in the camps.
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Mayeno Family Collection (ddr-densho-166)
This collection consists of photographs and documents from the Mayeno family, relatives of the owners of the Maneki Restaurant in Seattle, Washington. The collection contains photographs of the restaurant's Japanese garden prior to World War II, as well as materials from the internment camps in Santa Fe and Lordsburg, New Mexico.
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Japanese Association of North America Censuses Collection (ddr-densho-514)
Japanese Association of North America (JANA) Censuses collection contains original census records created by JANA about Japanese American communities in the 1920s and 1930s. They cover many of the same data fields that are found in United States censuses, for example: head of household, names, address, birth place, education level, and occupation. There were also separate …
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June Yasuno Aochi (Yamashiro) Berk Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-453-11)
Working for Minoru Yasui while living in Denver