Digital Collections

- Younger boys baseball team at Tule Lake Relocation Center.
- Concentration camps -- California [lcsh]; Tule Lake Relocation Center [lcna]; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Japanese American baseball players -- California [lcsh]; Baseball teams -- California -- History [lcsh];
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Young Buddhist Association (YBA) "B" Florin baseball team.
- Baseball teams -- California -- Florin -- History [lcsh]; Japanese American baseball players -- California -- Florin [lcsh]; Young Buddhist Association [aacr2];
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Young boys playing baseball in sandlot.
- Kosaka, Sanaye [aacr2]; Ehara, Tom [aacr2]; Nakamura, Frank [aacr2]; Baseball teams -- California -- Marysville -- History [lcsh]; Japanese American children [lcsh]; Urban parks -- California -- Marysville [lcsh]; Miners Park (Marysville, Calif.)...
- Identified: Sanaye Kosaka (at bat), Tom Ehara (pitcher), unidentified catcher, Frank Nakamura (tallest boy in background). Located in Marysville at what is today called "Miners Park."
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Young boys "sandlot" baseball team.
- Baseball teams -- California -- Marysville -- History [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- California -- Marysville [lcsh]; Japanese American children [lcsh]; Miners Park (Marysville, Calif.) [aacr2]; Urban parks -- California -- Marysville [lcsh]; Uyeno,...
- Back Row L to R: George Uyeno, Sam Nakagawa, Bill Kuroda, Frank Nakamura, Sanaye Kosaka, Joe Kagawa, Joe Nakamura. Front Row L to R: George Murata, Hiroshi Nakanishi, Tom Ehara, Katsumi Kuroda, James Kitahara, Henry Murayama. Located in...
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Wooden rice bowl with floral design inside.
- Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952 -- Collectibles [lcsh];
- Made in occupied Japan.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Wooden crate label.
- Agriculture -- California -- Florin -- History [lcsh]
- Labels reads: "Northern California Farms Co., Florin, California, contents 12 baskets net wt. 12 oz. each when packed".
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Winter scene of camp barracks at Topaz Relocation Center by Charles Erabu (Suiko) Mikami.
- Concentration camps -- Utah [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Central Utah Relocation Center -- Pictorial works [lcna]; Painting [lcsh]; Prisoners as artists [lcsh]; Barracks [lcsh];
- Charles Mikami was born in Hiroshima, Japan 1901, and began studying sumi-e painting at the age of fourteen. In 1919 he immigrated to Seattle. He and his family were interned first in Tule Lake and later transferred to Topaz. During incarceration,...
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Watercolor of Tule Lake Relocation Center barracks.
- Tule Lake Relocation Center -- Pictorial works [lcsh]; Concentration camps -- California [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Painting [lcsh]; Prisoners as artists [lcsh];
- Painted by Charles Mikami on a bleach crate. He was born in Hiroshima, Japan in 1901 and began studying sumi-e painting at the age of fourteen. In 1919 he immigrated to Seattle. He and his family were interned in Tule Lake Relocation Center and...
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Wakayama baseball team at Ewing Field, San Francisco.
- Baseball fields -- California -- San Francisco [lcsh]; Baseball teams -- California -- History [lcsh]; Japanese American baseball players -- California [lcsh];
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm Colony historical landmark plaque.
- Agriculture -- California [lcsh]; Historical markers -- California -- Gold Hill (El Dorado County) [lcna]; Gold Hill (El Dorado County, Calif.) [lcna]; Japanese Americans -- History [lcsh]; Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm [aacr2];
- Reads: Site of the only tea and silk farm established in California. First agricultural settlement of pioneer Japanese immigrants who arrived at Gold Hill on June 8, 1869. Despite the initial success, it failed to prosper. It marked the...
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Wade Johnston talks to his daughter
- California Underground Railroad
- Vacaville Japanese American baseball team.
- Baseball teams -- California -- Vacaville -- History [lcsh]; Japanese American baseball players -- California -- Vacaville [lcsh]; Japanese American men -- California -- Vacaville [lcsh];
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Topaz memorial information sign.
- Concentration camps -- Utah [lcsh]; Central Utah Relocation Center [lcna]; War memorials [lcsh]; Historical markers [lcsh];
- Sign reads: "Site of Topaz, a World War II Internment Center. In the never ending struggle for human dignity, there was enacted on this spot an event of historic significance for a nation and its people. During World War II this was the site of an...
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- The Negro trail blazers of California; a compilation of records from the California archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, in Berkeley; and from the diaries, old papers, and conversations of old pioneers in the State of...
- California Underground Railroad
- Tea caddy for thin tea with koma design
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh]; Tea caddies [lcsh]
- The distinctive koma design used for this natsume is of Southeast Asian origin. The design has a long history of use in Japan. The Japanese name for the pattern likens it to a spinning top.
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Strawberry cart and crates.
- Agriculture -- California -- Florin -- History [lcsh]; Japanese American farmers [lcsh]; Agricultural implements [lcsh];
- Strawberry cart and crates were used by a Japanese American farmer on a farm in Florin, California prior to World War II.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Storefront from "A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the United States Constitution" exhibit at the Smithsonian.
- Japanese Americans -- History [lcsh]; Museum exhibits [lcsh]; Japanese American business enterprises [lcsh]; United States. Constitution [lcsh]
- Exhibit located at National Museum of American History (U.S.)
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Squadron of Nisei Women's Army Corps (WACs).
- Japanese American women -- History [lcsh]; World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Japanese American [lcsh]; Women soldiers -- United States [lcsh]; United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- History [lcna]
- Women in uniform posed in front of barrack. Flag with WAC and other writing, white letters on dark background.
- 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
- 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