[Japanese-American] [California] Japanese American family photograph archive, a mid-twentieth-century record of Japanese American community life in California before and after the wartime incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry under Executive Order 9066 during the Second World War. The photographs mostly date between 1937 and 1940 with a few dated 1952.....
[Japanese American[WWII] Japanese American military service and postwar life photograph archive documenting Nisei participation in the United States armed forces and the reintegration of Japanese American families into public life after World War II, 1940s-1960s. The photographs capture Japanese Americans in military uniform, as well as family gatherings and civilian.....
[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 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.....
Shirey, Orville C. Americans: The Story of the 442nd Combat Team published in 1946 documents the wartime record of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated Japanese American unit whose service in Europe became one of the most celebrated chapters in United States military history during World War II. Composed.....
Capra, Frank. Japanese-Americans, a 1945 wartime military screen magazine segment film reel, highlighting Japanese American service in the U.S. Army’s information and morale boosting film distributions during the final year of World War II. Produced for exhibition to servicemen as part of Army-Navy Screen Magazine No. 45, the segment is.....
[Japanese Internment] Heart Mountain War Relocation Center materials documenting administrative theory alongside camp level cultural practice. The War Relocation Authority's political administration and daily life inside Japanese American incarceration during World War II, including a copy of Community Government in War Relocation Centers signed “Rachel Sady,” likely the anthropologist Rachel.....
[Japanese American] [California] Japanese American family photograph archive, 1950s, documenting everyday life in Southern California during the decade following the forced wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans under Executive Order 9066. The photographs record domestic routines, family celebrations, and recreational outings among a Nisei and Sansei generation rebuilding community life after.....
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.....
[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 family photo archive documenting the intersection of Nisei military service and wartime incarceration through a postwar visit to the Gila River Relocation Center in Arizona, circa 1945–1948. Executive Order 9066, signed on February 19, 1942, authorized the forced removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast, and Gila.....
Japanese American soldiers associated with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team appear in these World War II panoramic photographs documenting Nisei military units training in Hawaii during the early stages of the regiment’s formation. The 442nd Regimental Combat Team was composed primarily of second generation Japanese Americans who volunteered for military.....
Japanese American family photograph album documenting daily life in Japan before and after World War II and the later integration of an American serviceman into the family during the decades following the Allied occupation. The photographs trace the lived experience of a Japanese household whose members appear across school portraits.....
Japanese woman’s photo album documenting postwar family formation with an American serviceman between Japan and Texas directly following World War II. Centered on an unidentified Japanese woman later associated in the album with someone of the surname Lawson, the album follows her from youthful portraits and family scenes in Japan.....
[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.....
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.....
[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 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.....
[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.....
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.....
Shirey, Orville C. Americans: The Story of the 442nd Combat Team, 1946, documents the combat record and service history of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated Japanese American unit that served in the European theater during World War II. Composed largely of Nisei soldiers, many of whom volunteered while.....
[Japanese American][Japanese Internment] Frank Jiro Hashimoto photo archive recording the friendships, keepsakes, and young social life of a Japanese American boy in Fresno, California, circa late 1940s-1950s. Hashimoto was a survivor of WWII era Japanese American internment as a young boy. The photographs are a personal record of his postwar.....
[Japanese American] [Pre-WWII] [California] [Nisei] Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) Los Angeles convention photographs and personal portraits, 1930s, document organized Japanese American civic life, public representation, and community identity formation in pre-WWII Southern California. There are some images annotated with dates September 2nd and 3rd, 1938, recording the 5th JACL.....
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.....
Japanese American photograph archive documents everyday life, social identity, and community formation on the West Coast prior to World War II and the forced incarceration of Japanese Americans beginning in 1942. Dating from the 1920s to 1932, these images provide primary visual evidence of leisure, fashion, and interpersonal relationships within.....
