[Japanese Internment][WWII] Framed original broadside issued April 24, 1942 by the Western Defense Command enforcing Executive Order 9066 by the compulsory removal of Japanese Americans from a designated district of Los Angeles. The broadside directs “all persons of Japanese ancestry, both alien and non-alien” to present themselves for relocation, initiating.....
[Japanese American][Internment][WWII] Broadside issued April 24, 1942 by the Western Defense Command enforcing Executive Order 9066 by the compulsory removal of Japanese Americans from a designated district of Los Angeles. The broadside directs “all persons of Japanese ancestry, both alien and non-alien” to present themselves for relocation, initiating their forced.....
[WWII] [Japanese American] Japanese American incarceration archive, circa 1940s, documenting the personal lives of Japanese American detainees at Poston War Relocation Center in Arizona and Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming during World War II. Executive Order 9066 authorized the forced removal and incarceration of more than 120,000 persons of.....
[Japanese Internment] [Law & Public Policy] Previously owned by Takako Saito; a documented Manzanar incarceree; this archive of three books titled National Defense Migration Hearings; intended for use by the Select Committee Investigating National Defense Migration; Parts 29–31; 1942; documents Congress’s investigation into the forced removal of Japanese Americans from.....
[WWII][Japanese American] Photo archive of Japanese American families and children confined in United States War Relocation Authority camps during the Second World War. These images, taken during the 1940s incarceration of approximately 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry following the issuance of Executive Order 9066, capture informal scenes of family life.....
Camp Livingston wartime photographs and memorabilia dating from 1942 to 1944 document the complex military and civilian functions of a major U.S. Army installation in Louisiana during World War II, including the detention of individuals of Japanese ancestry following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Twenty two items preserve visual and.....
[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 incarceration archive documenting the lived experience of Takashi Hori, a Seattle-born Nisei Japanese American confined at the Minidoka War Relocation Center, with direct evidence of how wartime media access, postal systems, and organized recreation functioned within U.S. internment policy during World War II. Materials tied to Takashi Hori.....
[Japanese American] [WWII] [Internment] Japanese American photograph archive, circa 1930s to 1940s, records civilian identity and interpersonal life across the World War II era, including one photograph with a note on verso tied directly to incarceration at the Rohwer Relocation Center in Arkansas. Named individuals, preserved through handwritten inscriptions, establish.....
Japanese American incarceration photographs dating from World War II document daily life among families confined in War Relocation Authority camps in the United States. Following Executive Order 9066 in 1942, more than 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were removed from their homes on the West Coast and placed in a......
Internment camp copy of Flowering Plants and Ferns of Arizona from the Gila River Project School Libraries, preserving the school library apparatus of a War Relocation Authority camp for Japanese Americans incarcerated in Arizona during World War II. The stamp “Property of Gila River Project School Libraries / War Relocation.....
Japanese American incarceration photographs dating from World War II document civilian life and military presence at several internment and assembly centers established after the forced removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast. Following Executive Order 9066 in 1942, more than 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were confined in temporary.....
The wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans and other so called “enemy aliens” during World War II unfolded across a network of detention centers, military installations, and War Relocation Authority camps that fundamentally reshaped the lives of thousands of individuals of Japanese ancestry. This large panoramic aerial photograph documents Camp Livingston.....
Evacuation of the Japanese and National Policy (1942) records an official response by a Protestant denomination to the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Issued by the National General Council of Congregational Christian Churches, the document addresses the government policy that removed tens of thousands.....
Japanese American communities photographed across the twentieth century document the transformation of Japanese American identity from immigrant settlement and economic success to wartime incarceration and later postwar memory. Eleven press photographs dating from 1918 through the late twentieth century depict Japanese immigrants, Japanese American families, and individuals whose lives were.....
Tanforan Assembly Center photographs dating from 1943 to 1944 document the transformation of a major Japanese American incarceration site into a United States military training installation during World War II. Tanforan, located in San Bruno, California, functioned as one of the principal temporary detention centers established after Executive Order 9066.....
[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.....
Adams, Ansel. Born Free and Equal published in 1944 presents a photographic record of Japanese Americans incarcerated at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California during World War II. Adams produced the work following visits to Manzanar in 1943 and 1944, when Japanese American families were confined under wartime relocation.....
United States Department of the Interior, War Relocation Authority. The Relocation Program (1946) documents the federal administration of Japanese American incarceration during World War II and provides direct evidence of the government’s policies governing camp closure, dispersal, and postwar resettlement. Issued immediately after the end of the war, the report.....
[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.....
United States Supreme Court. United States Reports, Volume 323, 1945, contains the official published decision of Korematsu v. United States, a ruling that upheld the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II on the basis of military necessity. The case arose when Fred Korematsu refused orders to report for.....
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.....
The War Department’s official account of Japanese American exclusion from the Pacific Coast gives the Army’s own administrative rationale for the forced removal carried out under Executive Order 9066. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson’s foreword states that wartime security required “the same treatment for all persons of Japanese ancestry.....
Thomas, Norman. Democracy and Our Japanese Americans, January 2, 1942, presents an early public argument against the removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans following the attack on Pearl Harbor attack and the rapid expansion of federal authority over West Coast populations. Written by Norman Thomas in collaboration with other advocates.....
[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.....
