The CSU Dominguez Hills Japanese American collections document Japanese American history throughout the 20th and into the 21st centuries. The institution’s featured collections include newsletters, photographs, correspondence, legal documents, memos, ephemera, and other community-based materials. The Rancho San Pedro Collection contains material related to the tenants residing on large ranches run by the Dominguez Family’s descendants. It includes land leases and official documents related to the California Alien Land Act as well as correspondence during World War II from tenants requesting assistance. The Ishibashi Collection, contains photographs, land leases, newspaper clippings, and other material related to Kumekichi and Masaichi Ishibashi, Japanese American farmers from Palos Verdes. Among the World War II-era collections are the following. The Hiroshi Fukuwa Manzanar Diary details Hiroshi Fukuwa’s experiences during World War II and includes newsletters, clippings, and handwritten notes about the Manzanar, Gila River, and Tule Lake incarceration camps. The J. Ralph McFarling Collection contains material generated by J. Ralph McFarling, a Community Analyst for the War Relocation Authority. It includes letters, weekly reports, camp photographs, and a ten-page typescript memoir describing the Granada incarceration camp conditions. The Asian Pacific Studies Collection includes newsletters, statements, speeches, personal documents, photographs, and other materials primarily related to Japanese American incarceration. There are also several collections focused on redress and reparations as well as families. The Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga Papers contain documents, research, photographs, and other material related to the researcher and activist, Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga. The Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress (NCRR) Records include collections from organization members, including Roy Nakano and Jim Matsuoka, that focus on the organization through documents, event flyers, programs, books, and publications. The featured family-focused collections include the Jim and Eric Saito Family Collection, Akamine and Fuchita Family Papers, and the Takano Family Papers. These collections include photographs, photo albums, yearbooks, family trees, material from incarceration camps, etc.. Lastly, the most extensive Japanese American collection is the Ninomiya Studio Collection. It includes post-World War II negatives and prints from a family-owned photo studio in Little Tokyo.
Libguide to Japanese American/Peruvian Collections