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Jack Iwata Collection

(93.102) The online collection of photographer Jack Iwata includes 166 photographs and copy negatives taken at Manzanar and Tule Lake concentration camps between 1942 and 1945. Jack Iwata was born in Seattle, Washington, but grew up in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. He returned to the United States when he was 16 years old, and attended Whittier College in Whittier, California. Iwata began to work with famous photog...

Toyo Miyatake Studio / Rafu Shimpo Collection

(96.267) This online collection is a selection from over 9,500 negatives and photographs taken by the photographers of the Toyo Miyatake Studio for the Los Angeles-based The Rafu Shimpo, one of the oldest and most widely read Japanese American newspapers in the country. It documents Los Angeles’ Japanese American community from 1950 to 1988. The collection features one-of-a-kind images, featuring community events,...

Walter Muramoto Collection

(97.292). This collection of 361 black and white photographs taken by Walter Muramoto depict daily life in camp in Rohwer, Arkansas. Muramoto and his family were incarcerated in Rohwer from 1942 to 1945. EXPLORE THE COLLECTION

Benji Okubo Collection

(2003.159, 2005.3) The online collection of artist Benji Okubo (1904-1975) features sixteen paintings dating from Okubo’s prolific period of the late 1920s to the mid-1940s, including several works created in Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. While Okubo’s pre-war pieces demonstrate a unique blend of color juxtaposition and surrealism, his works completed in camp are notable for their commentary on militari...

Miné Okubo Collection

(2007.62) This online collection of 197 drawings by artist Miné Okubo (1912-2001) illustrates her life in the Tanforan assembly center in San Bruno, CA and the Topaz concentration camp in Utah during World War II. Okubo’s drawings served as the basis for her renowned book, Citizen 13660, which was printed in 1946 and was the first personal account published on the camp experience. EXPLORE THE COLLECTION

Sakamoto-Sasano Family Collection

(2018.10) This collection contains documents, objects, and ephemera from the Sakamoto-Sasano family. The belongings of matriarch Taye Sakamoto Sasano, her sister Chiyoko Sakamoto Takahashi, and her two daughters Louise Sasano Yoshida and Frances Sasano make up the bulk of the collection. Yearbooks, school notebooks, scrapbooks, diaries, and notes from friends characterize Frances and Louise's lives as teens and young...

Mori Shimada Collection

(92.10.2). This collection, originally in scrapbook form, features 108 photographs of friends, family, and social and sporting events in Heart Mountain concentration camp taken by Mori Shimada between 1942 and 1945. Shimada was twenty-two years old when he and his family were forcibly removed from their home in Santa Clara, California to Heart Mountain. EXPLORE THE COLLECTION

Henry Sugimoto Collection

(92.97, 2015.2, 2015.7) Artist Henry Sugimoto (1900–1990) was prolific in documenting his experiences as a Japanese immigrant in the United States and depicting scenes of places in California, Arkansas, New York, Mexico, France, and Japan from the 1920s until the 1980s through his artwork. The collection chronicles Sugimoto’s entire career from his travels throughout France and the United States, to his incarceration...

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