Digital Collections

- Three generations of the Okamoto Family.
- Japanese American families [lcsh];
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- The Yosh Tsukamoto family.
- Japanese American families [lcsh]; Tsukamoto, Yoshio [aacr2];
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Testimony; Sen bill- ay debate
- California Underground Railroad
- Tanka poem written in calligraphy on board.
- Japanese American art [lcsh]; Buddhism [lcsh]; Calligraphy [lcsh]; Higashi Honganji Los Angeles Betsuin [lcna]; Japanese poetry [lcsh];
- The poem, composed by Tomoko Ohtani, the wife of a Buddhist priest, reads: "I believe that people could overcome any hardship by learning and following the teachings of Buddha." From the Higashi-Honganji Buddist Temple in Los Angeles. Tanka is a...
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Taketa family.
- Japanese Americans -- California -- Sacramento [lcsh]; Japanese American families [lcsh]; Taketa, Masao [aacr2]; Taketa, Ichi [aacr2]; Taketa, Henry [aacr2]; Taketa, May [aacr2]; Taketa, Tom [aacr2];
- Family lived in Sacramento. Photograph taken before Tom left for UC Berkeley at age 20 as a junior. Identified: Front row; Masao, Ichi; Back row; Tom, May, Henry. Masao Taketa and Ichi Taketa were fruit farmers in Florin. The Taketas and extended...
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Taketa family visiting Japan.
- Japanese American families [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- California -- Sacramento [lcsh]; Taketa, Ichi [aacr2]; Taketa, May [aacr2]; Taketa, Henry [aacr2]; Taketa, Tom [aacr2];
- Photograph taken in Hiroshima, Japan. Ichi Taketa visits her father after sixteen years in the United States. Identified L to R: May, Henry, Ichi, Tom. Masao Taketa and Ichi Taketa were fruit farmers in Florin. The Taketas and extended family...
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Takehara house.
- Farmhouses -- California -- Sacramento [lcsh]; Automobiles [lcsh]; Dwellings [lcsh];
- The Takehara family owned a 45 acre farm in the Jackson and Bradshaw area of Sacramento County. They grew strawberries and grapes.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Sword set for Boy's Day set.
- Japanese Americans -- Social life and customs [lcsh]; Tango no sekku [aacr2]
- Set includes sword rack (JC8:10), sword and scabbard with blue and gold tassel (JC8:11), and sword with orange tassel (JC8:12). Boys' Day Festival (Tango-no-Sekku) is observed annually on May 5th to celebrate the healthy growth and development of...
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Sunday school in front of the Florin Japanese Methodist Church.
- Japanese Americans -- Religion [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- California -- Florin [lcsh]; Florin Japanese Methodist Church [aacr2];
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Sumo wrestling troop and supporters at Granada Relocation Center.
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Granada Relocation Center [lcna]; Concentration camps -- Colorado [lcsh]; Sumo [lcsh]; Japanese American men -- Colorado [lcsh];
- Photograph from the Nakano family album.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Students from artificial flower making class at Poston II Relocation Center.
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Poston Relocation Center (Poston, Ariz.) [lcna]; Concentration Camps -- Arizona [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- Social life and customs [lcsh];
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Sketch portrait of Roy Ota.
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Japanese American [lcsh]; Japanese American soldiers [lcsh]; Ota, Roy [aacr2]; Portrait drawing [lcsh];
- Roy Ota was killed in action during WWII in Italy.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Silver obi with green shapes.
- Kimonos [lcsh];
- An obi (belt or sash) is used to tie a kimono.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Signed portrait of Fresno Assembly Center Champions 1942.
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Fresno Assembly Center (Fresno, Calif.) [lcna]; Baseball teams -- California -- History [lcsh]; Concentration camps -- Arkansas [lcsh]; Jerome Relocation Center (Ark.) [aacr2];...
- Photograph taken at Jerome Relocation Center.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Sewing class in front of the Buddhist Church.
- Buddhist centers -- California [lcsh]; Japanese American women -- California [lcsh];
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Second grade class, Washington School in Yolo County.
- School children [lcsh]; Nakano, Isamu Harry [aacr2]; Nakano, Asato George [aacr2];
- Identified: Harry Nakano, 4th from left, 3rd row.; George Nakano, 1st on left, back row. Photograph from the Nakano family album. Asataro Nakano and Misao Gyotoku Nakano immigrated from Japan in the early 1900s. They settled in West Sacramento...
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- School children touching boulder used for the plaque of the Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm Colony historical landmark.
- Gold Hill (El Dorado County, Calif.) [lcna]; Historical markers -- California -- Gold Hill (El Dorado County) [lcna]; Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm [aacr2]; Agriculture -- California [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- History [lcsh];
- The historical landmark marks the site of the only tea and silk farm established in California. The plaque reads: First agricultural settlement of pioneer Japanese immigrants who arrived at Gold Hill on June 8, 1869. Despite the initial success,...
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Sawamura family onion farm in West Sacramento.
- Japanese American farmers [lcsh]; Japanese American families [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- California -- Sacramento [lcsh]; Sawamura, Frank [aacr2]; Sawamura, Kame [aacr2]; Sawamura, Usaburo [aacr2];
- L to R: Kame Sawamura (with sons), Frank Sawamura (on horse), Unidentified, Usaburo Sawamura.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Saw.
- Agricultural implements [lcsh];
- Farm implements and tools used at the Kubo fruit orchard farm in Penryn, California. Set includes: 2 hoes, 2 wood saws, 1 meat saw, 1 iron with hook, and a billhook.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Saijiro and Fusa Ishikawa seated in chairs.
- Japanese Americans -- California -- Sacramento [lcsh]; Ishikawa, Saijiro [aacr2]; Ishikawa, Fusa [aacr2];
- Saijiro Ishikawa emigrated to San Francisco from Toyama Ken, Japan at the beginning of the twentieth century. He moved to Sacramento ca. 1905 and purchased farmland to grow grapes at 9010 Tokay Lane. In 1908 Saigiro married Fusa Ishiguro. They...
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase