- Japanese American Relocation
Collection Description
This collection of photographs from the Hearst Collection of the Los Angeles Examiner in the USC Regional History Collection, documents the relocation of Japanese Americans in California during World War II. These 222 photographs provide a glimpse into the lives of Japanese immigrants and native born Japanese Americans (a.k.a. Nisei) residing in California from 1921 to 1958, with primary emphasis on 1941-1946. Much of the coverage documents scenes of: a) the relocation process; b) life in camps at Manzanar, Santa Anita, Tanforan, and Tule Lake; c) post-war repatriation to Japan.
The original captions from the photographs, many of which were published in the Los Angeles Examiner, have been transcribed into the Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive to enhance subject-specific retrieval; the cultural references reflect the 1940's terminology.
USC's Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive was funded by a grant from the Library Services and Technology Act to the California Digital Library, administered by the California State Library, as part of an initiative to assemble a statewide Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA), available at: jarda.cdlib.org. JARDA includes access to more than 25 different collections from four (eventually nine) institutions. It features newly digitized photographs, documents, manuscripts, paintings, drawings, letters, oral histories, and inventories of archival collections. It will eventually bring together over 10,000 digital images and 20,000 pages of electronic transcriptions of documents and oral histories, showing daily life in the camps.
CITE AS: Creator. Title. Date. From the Japanese-American Relocation Digital Archive. Digitally reproduced by the University of Southern California Digital Archive. Available: URL. Access date.
EXAMPLE CITE AS: (Publisher) International News Photos. "Happy couple, Toya and Pete Matayoshi, 'Just Married' are shown cutting the wedding cake at Santa Anita Assembly Center."--caption on photograph. 1943-01-14. From the Japanese-American Relocation Digital Archive. Digitally reproduced by the University of Southern California Digital Archive. Available: http://digarc.usc.edu.
PHYSICAL LOCATION: The Japanese American Relocation Collection is part of the Regional History Collection of the Archival Research Center, Doheny Library University of Southern California.
CONTACT: Dace Taube, Regional History Curator, Archival Research Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182; (213) 743-2117; (213) 743-1778; taube@usc.edu; special@usc.edu
Title:
Japanese-American Relocation Digital Archive
Alternate Title:
Japanese American Relocation
Record ID:
jarda-m4
Names & Dates
Creator:
[compiler] USC
Contributor:
Claude Zachary
Publisher:
[host] University of Southern California. Libraries
Subject
Topic:
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Coverage:
1941/1946
Place:
[populated places] Manzanar
[counties] Inyo
[populated places] Santa Anita
[counties] Los Angeles
[populated places] Tanforan
[counties] San Mateo
[lakes] Tule Lake
[counties] Fresno
[states/provinces] California
Relationships
Physical
Type:
collections
images
Access
Rights:
© 2000 University of Southern California University Information Services
Repository:
Regional History Center, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182
specol@usc.edu
specol@usc.edu
Ordering:
University of Southern California owns digital rights only. For personal, educational or research use contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu; phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343. For permission to publish or republish material in any form -- print or electronic -- contact the Rights owner.
Identifiers
Record ID:
jarda-m4