Japanese American soldier photograph archive documenting Nisei service in the United States Army during World War II in the European Theater, a body of material connected to the generation of second-generation Japanese Americans who entered military service while many of their families were confined in American incarceration camps following Executive.....
[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 soldiers of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team served with extraordinary distinction during World War II despite the widespread incarceration of Japanese Americans in the United States following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Composed primarily of Nisei soldiers—second generation Japanese Americans—many of whom volunteered for military service while their.....
During the decades following the Second World War, the expansion of the United States diplomatic corps and international cultural exchange programs created new opportunities for African Americans to participate in global professional and social networks. At a time when segregation and racial inequality still structured much of American life, a......
U.S. Army Air Forces photographs, 1946, document racially integrated groups of American servicemen operating across Pacific bases and occupied Japan prior to the formal desegregation of the armed forces under Executive Order 9981 in 1948. The images place Black and white soldiers within shared military environments at a transitional moment.....
Ferrari, Marianne; Link, Matthew; Damron Guides; Fodor’s Editors; Rough Guides Editors. Gay and lesbian travel guide collection, 1990–2010, documenting the development of LGBTQ travel culture and the mapping of queer social spaces across the United States and internationally. These guides situate travel as a key component of late twentieth-century queer.....
SS Resolute photo archive, approximately 86 photographs dating to 1925, documenting a passenger voyage through the Hawaiian Islands and broader Pacific region during a period of expanding U.S. tourism and colonial presence. The material captures volcanic landscapes, urban development, agricultural activity, and Native Hawaiian individuals, providing visual evidence of both.....
[Japanese-American] [Hawaii] Okahata, J.H. A History of Japanese Immigrants in Hawaii. Honolulu: United Japanese Society of Hawaii, 1964. First edition. Published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Japanese immigration to Hawaii. Extensively illustrated with black-and-white photographs, maps, and facsimiles, including portraits, military photographs, agricultural scenes, and community events. Original blue.....
Actor Hawaii Five O. Signed Check , entirely in Lord's hand. Signed in red "Jack Lord." In excellent condition. A great example of an authentic signature on a check.
Japanese American family photograph album documenting how Issei and Nisei kinship, self-presentation, and community life operated across a transpacific network linking Honolulu, Waikiki, mainland California, and Japan from the interwar decades through the years following World War II. The album preserves continuity across a period when Japanese communities in the.....
442nd Regimental Combat Team press photograph archive documenting Japanese American military service during World War II, when thousands of Nisei soldiers fought for the United States while many of their families were confined under Executive Order 9066. Activated in 1943, the 442nd was composed largely of second-generation Japanese American volunteers.....
[Japanese American] [Hawaii] Japanese American family photograph archive, early to late 1950s, documenting leisure travel and everyday social life in Southern California and the Hawaiian Islands during the decade following the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans under Executive Order 9066 and the political transformation of Hawaii from U.S. territory to.....
[Japanese-American] [Hawaii] Japanese American military family photograph album, 1930s, documenting everyday life of a Nisei household in interwar Hawaii and tracing the transpacific connections linking Japanese American communities with Japan and Japanese occupied Manchuria. The photographs record family relationships, social gatherings, military friendships, and overseas travel at a time when.....
[Japanese-American] [WWII] Official yearbook of the 1947 graduating class at Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, which serves as a vivid document of postwar life in a multiracial student body that included a notable presence of Japanese American students. Bound in embossed dark blue leatherette. 8.5" x 11". Heavily illustrated. Published.....
[Japanese-American] [WWII] Official yearbook of the 1946 graduating class at Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, which serves as a vivid document of postwar life in a multiracial student body that included a notable presence of Japanese American students. Bound in embossed dark blue leatherette. 8.5" x 11". Heavily illustrated. Published.....
[Japanese-American] [WWII] Official yearbook of the 1947 graduating class at Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, which serves as a vivid document of postwar life in a multiracial student body that included a notable presence of Japanese American students. Bound in embossed dark blue leatherette. 8.5" x 11". Heavily illustrated. Published.....
University of Hawaiʻi; Iolani School. Ka Palapala; Prize Day Program. 1946–1948. These materials document postwar educational and social life in Hawaiʻi following the end of wartime martial law, with particular attention to Japanese American students navigating the transition from military governance to civilian institutional life. The items capture how public.....
[Japanese American] [Immigration] Senate, Immigrants in Industries (In Twenty-Five Parts) Part 25: Japanese and Other Immigrant Races in the Pacific Coast and Rocky Mountain States (In Three Volumes: Vol. II) Agriculture. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1911. First edition. Original red cloth boards with gilt text on spine. 1031 pages. 8vo.....
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] [Linguistics] Illustrated children’s schoolbook for first-year students. N.d., presumably 1950s-60s. Honolulu: Hawaii Kyoiku Kai. Printed in Japan. Text in Japanese (hiragana and furigana). Brightly illustrated. Original pictorial wrappers, 8vo. This scarce Japanese-language primer was issued for Nisei and Sansei children in Hawaii, part of the broader effort by Japanese.....
[Japanese-American] [Women's Education] Postwar Hawaiʻi identified Japanese-American university school girl's photo album. Oʻahu Territory of Hawaiʻi, 1946–1950, spanning the years right after World War II. Approximately 260 silver gelatin photographs documenting the daily life, friendships, education, and civic participation of a Japanese American young woman living on Oʻahu in the.....
[Japanese American] [WWII] Rademaker, John A. These Are Americans: the Japanese Americans in Hawaii in World War II. Palo Alto, California: Pacific Books, 1951. First edition. Heavily illustrated with photographs of the 442nd regimental combat team, Japanese farm workers, nurses, students, and other Japanese American contributors during the war. Bound.....
[Japanese American] [WWII] Rademaker, John A. These Are Americans: the Japanese Americans in Hawaii in World War II. Palo Alto, California: Pacific Books, 1951. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. Heavily illustrated with photographs of the 442nd regimental combat team, Japanese farm workers, nurses.....
Olivares, José de. Our Islands and Their People as Seen on Camera & Pencil. St. Louis / New York / Chicago / Atlanta: N.D. Thompson Publishing Co., 1899. Two volumes, complete. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of color lithographs, black and white photographs, and illustrations. Folio. Publisher’s original teal-blue cloth stamped.....
Pearl Harbor salvage operations and Navy deep sea diving work extensive archive documenting the military career of Navy diver John Krohta from the late 1930s through the Cold War era. A Department of the Interior letter addressed to Krohta states, “I understand that you were on the Medusa on December.....
