[Japanese American] [WWII] 442nd Regimental Combat Team soldier and family photograph archive, showing Japanese American military service and community life in Hawaii during and immediately after World War II. This group documents the lives of Nisei soldiers connected to the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated United States Army unit.....
Japanese American family photograph album, 1939–1952, documenting community life in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area during the years before and after the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans under Executive Order 9066. The photographs record a multigenerational Japanese American household during the period when families displaced from West Coast.....
[Post WWII] [Japanese American] [Los Angeles, California] Japanese American family photograph archive, 1952–1953, documenting the rebuilding of Nisei and Sansei community life in Los Angeles during the decade following the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans under Executive Order 9066. The photographs record a network of relatives and friends living in.....
Class photograph of a junior high school cohort in Hawaii, 1945, documents Japanese American student life during wartime military governance following the attack on Pearl Harbor attack. The image captures a predominantly Japanese American student body within a multiracial classroom at a time when the islands were placed under extended.....
[Japanese American] Post-war intergenerational Japanese Americans visiting northern California natural landmarks, ca. 1960s. Comprising 20 original silver gelatin and chromogenic prints, most measuring approximately 3.5 x 3.5 inches, this collection includes black-and-white and color images of group travel to Yosemite National Park, the Wawona Tunnel Tree, and other iconic Sierra.....
[Japanese-American] [WWII] Galileo High School yearbook, 1940, showing Japanese American students in San Francisco immediately prior to the mass incarceration authorized by Executive Order 9066, a contemporaneous record of Nisei youth integrated in public education and American culture. Produced in a city with a significant Japanese American, the yearbook captures.....
Galileo High School (San Francisco). The Telescope, 1940, documenting Japanese American student life immediately prior to wartime incarceration under federal policy. Thr yearbook displays identifiable students, school organizations, and daily educational environments, providing primary-source visual evidence for the study of Japanese American life before forced removal during World War II.....
Press photographs documenting Japanese American life before and during World War II establish a direct visual record of the transition from civic participation to federally enforced incarceration following Executive Order 9066. Produced and circulated by American press agencies in the late 1930s through the 1940s, these images document both integrated.....
