837 items
837 items
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Seven women seated on wall in garden of International House at UC Berkeley (ddr-densho-426-1842)
Tomoye (Nozawa) Takahashi seated at left
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Five men and two women standing in garden, at Golden Gate International Exposition (ddr-densho-426-1896)
Inscription on front: Japan Day Reception / Japan Pavilion Garden / G.G.I.E., T.I. April 29, 1939 / (19)
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Exterior of Higo Ten-Cent Store (ddr-densho-16-1)
Sanzo and Matsuyo Murakami owned and operated the Higo Ten-Cent Store which was located on Weller Street in Seattle's Nihonmachi, or Japantown. The Higo Ten-Cent Store is currently called the Higo Variety Store and continues to be a landmark business in Seattle's International District which was known as Nihonmachi before World War II. The store is …
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Shiro Kido and family posing with leis (ddr-njpa-4-398)
Caption on front: "MOVIE MOGUL AND FAMILY HERE: Shiro Kido, president of Shochiku Company, Japan's largest movie producers, and his wife (right) and daughter Mitsue (left) are pictured at the airport as they arrived by Pan American Airways Saturday night en route home from the Venice International Film Festival. They'll leave for Tokyo via JAL tomorrow …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 72, No. 19 (May 14, 1971) (ddr-pc-43-19)
Selected article titles: "JACL backs OEO funding: Plight of needy Orientals bared to Senate group" (p. 1), "Ethnic studies confab shows promise, needs" (p. 1), ACLU director opposes effort in Congress to ban anti-ethnic slur" (p. 1), "Bolder plans now proposed for Seattle International District" (p. 1), "More prehistoric Japanese links with Central and South America …
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Governor signing redress bill for Seattle school clerks (ddr-densho-10-8)
Governor Booth Gardner of Washington State signs a state bill authorizing redress payments to twenty-seven former Nisei employees of the Seattle School District who lost their jobs during World War II due to their Japanese ancestry. (Information on back of the photograph.) The signing took place at the historic Nippon Kan Theatre in Seattle's International District, …
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Koyasan Los Angeles Branch Tourist Party, airplane (ddr-csujad-25-137)
A photograph of the tourists of the Koyasan Los Angeles Branch Tourist Party taken in an airplane at San Francisco International Airport. The same image is found in item: ucsb_jia_0128. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: jia_08_03_009
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Koyasan Los Angeles Branch Tourist Party, airplane (ddr-csujad-25-139)
A photograph of a tourist of Koyasan Los Angeles Branch Tourist Party taken in an airplane at San Francisco International Airport. The same image is found in item: ucsb_jia_0128. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: jia_08_03_011
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Queens of Asian cultural festivals and an Aloha Week king posing with cups of tea (ddr-njpa-2-565)
Caption on reverse: "Presented above is the international royalty who participate [sic] in last night's Open House of the 14th Annual Narcissus Festival. They are, left to right--Korean Queen, Aloha Week King (Hawaiian), Narcissus Festival Queen Kathleen Kong, Filipina Queen and Cherry Blossom Festival Queen Janet Nishino (AJA). (Hawaii Times photo by Noboru Kawaguchi and caption …
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Power of attorney (ddr-densho-308-7)
International Oyster Co., Ltd grants Kanamatsu Kanazawa power of attorney in connection to its dealings with Padilla Oyster Beds and Padilla Point Oyster Company. Kanazawa helped to start the oyster business in the Pacific Northwest when he learned that the cooler waters accelerated the growth of oysters. Oysters grown in the Pacific Northwest could reach commercial …
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Questions and request submitted to Hon. Antonio R. Martin, Vice-Consul of Spain by Temporary Council of Block Chairmen of Heart Mountain Relocation Project, January 13, 1943 (ddr-csujad-55-401)
Questions submitted to Antonio R. Martin by Temporary Council of Block Chairmen at Heart Mountain incarceration camp. Questions cover international laws, rights at incarceration camp, facilities and services, and repatriation. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0403
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Seattle Chapter, JACL Reporter, Vol. 25, No. 1, January 1988 (ddr-sjacl-1-369)
Newsletter covering the following topics: 1988 Chapter President, Roger Shimizu; Seattle JACL International Relations Committee writes letter to Pau John Paul II, thanking him for visiting holocaust and Jewish concentration camps of WWII and informing him of JA and JC camps in the US and Canada; efforts to declare Puyallup Fair Monument as a State Historical …
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Advertisement for Architectural Forum's photo book of World Fairs (ddr-densho-329-878)
Letter from the Architectural Forum Assistant to the Publisher encouraging the recipient to renew a lapsed subscription and receive a copy of the World Fairs photo book with images from the New York and San Francisco fairs. Includes a sample centerfold graphical map of the Golden Gate International Exposition captioned "DIRECTIONAL MAP IN COURT OF PACIFICA …
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Shigeko Sese Uno Interview (ddr-densho-1000-98)
Nisei female born April 6, 1915, in Seattle, Washington's International District. At an early age became active in the Japanese Baptist Church. Parents owned and operated a dairy plant called White River Dairy. Was a student at the Baptist Missionary Training School in Chicago, Illinois. Took a group of young women on an eye-opening trip to …
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Koyasan [Los Angeles Branch] Tourist Party, [departure] (ddr-csujad-25-131)
A group photograph of the tourists of Koyasan Los Angeles Branch Tourist Party in front of Japan Air Line airplane at Los Angeles International Airport before departure. The same image is found in item: ucsb_jia_0128. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: jia_08_03_003
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George Akau and other Lions Club members (ddr-njpa-2-10)
Caption on reverse: "LIONS CONVENTION COMMITTEE: Pictured above are members of the committee in charge of the 13th annual district convention of Lions International which will be held Friday and Saturday at the Armed Services YMCA. They are, left to right: Front row--George H. Akau, F. Roy Johnston and E. M. de Harne; back row--David Bent, …
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Advance release (Office of War Information), OWI-2712 (November 1, 1943) (ddr-csujad-55-1908)
Press release regarding the purpose and process of segregation at Tule Lake, movement of segregants between WRA Centers, security at Tule Lake, unrest among incarcerees, strike and violence, interventions by the administration, and international press. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1911
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Yoshida family (ddr-densho-495-12)
Yoshida siblings posing together on the steps of the Honolulu International Country Club to celeberate Tadashi Francis Yoshida's 80th birthday. Back row, left to right: Jack Itsuo Yoshida, Susumu Nakamura, and Edward Sueo Yoshida. Middle row, left to right: Patsy Yoshida, Tadashi Francis Yoshida, Nancy Teruko (Nagai) Yoshida, Ethel (Inouye) Yoshida. Front row, left to right: …