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Contents 1 Documentaries 2 Presentations 3 Digital Archives 4 Documents 5 Chronology 6 Camps 6.1 Assembly Centers 7 Photographers 7.1 Ansel Adams 7.2 Clem Albers 7.3 Howard Clifford 7.4 Masumi Hayashi 7.5 Dorothea Lange 7.6 Toyo Miyatake 7.7 Francis Stewart 8 Bibliographies

Documentaries

• Faces of the Past, Voices of the Present (Genna Duberstein, Ohio State University, 2005) (interviews with Japanese Americans living in Ohio who were interned during World War II)

• Children of the Camps (PBS, 2003)

• Rabbit in the Moon

Presentations

• A More Perfect Union (Smithsonian Institution) (Includes images, music, text and first-person accounts)

• Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites (National Park Service)

• Exploring the Japanese American Internment Through Film and the Internet (National Asian American Telecommunications Association)

Digital Archives

• Densho (interviews, photographs, videos, etc) (note: free registration required)

• Japanese American National Museum

• Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA)

• USC Japanese American Relocation: Digital Archive (in the from the Hearst Collection of the Los Angeles Examiner)

• Japanese American Internment (National Archives -- ARC Gallery)

• Japanese Relocation and Internment During World War II (National Archives -- Archives Library Information Center)

• Broadsides; Correspondence (California Polytechnic)

Documents

• [http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation/ Teaching With Documents:

Documents and Photographs Related to Japanese Relocation During World War II] (National Archives)

• Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese (February 19,1942)
  • Print-friendly version Transcript jpg

• San Franscisco News (March - April 1942)

• Relocation of Japanese-Americans (War Relocation Authority Publication, May 1943)

• Final Report; Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast 1942 (Washington D.C.: Govt. Printing Office, 1943)

• Tanforan Totalizer + Topaz Times (U Utah)

Chronology

• Chronology of San Franscisco War Events

Camps

Assembly Centers

• Puyallup, WA

"Camp Harmony" (U Washington)

Wikipedia: Camp Harmony

• Tanforan

Tanforan Assembly Center (Powerpoint)

Hisako Hibi Collection Japanese American National Museum)

• Santa Anita, Fresno, Pamona

The Assembly Centers: Temporary Internment Camps

===Amache (Granada), CO=== (Opened: August 24, 1942. Closed: October 15, 1945. Peak population: 7,318.) Colorado State Archives

Livingston Dodgers

===Gila River, AZ=== (Opened July 20, 1942. Closed November 10, 1945. Peak Population 13,348.) Eleanor Roosevelt visiting Gila River Camp

Wikipedia: Gila River

===Heart Mountain, WY=== (Opened August 12, 1942. Closed November 10, 1945. Peak population 10,767.)

Heart Mountain Digital Preservation Project

Mori Shimada Collection (Japanese American National Museum)

Estelle Ishigo Collection (Japanese American National Museum)

===Jerome, AR=== (Opened October 6, 1942.Closed June 30, 1944. Peak population 8,497.)

Pictures From Jerome and Rohwer Internment Camp(University of Central Arkansas)

===Manzanar, CA=== (Opened March 21, 1942.Closed November 21, 1945. Peak population 10,046.)

Manzanar National Historic Site

Manzanar (Powerpoint)

Interned orphans (includes QuickTime movie)

Elusive Truth: Four Photographers at Manzanar (Ad for the book)

Tad Beckman's PowerPoint

===Minidoka, ID=== (Opened August 10, 1942. Closed October 28, 1945. Peak population 9,397.)

Minidoka Internment National Monument

===Poston (Colorado River), AZ=== (Opened May 8, 1942. Closed November 28, 1945. Peak population 17,814.)

Poston

Relocation Camp Life

===Rohwer, AR=== (Opened September 18, 1942. Closed November 30, 1945. Peak population 8,475.)

Walter Muramoto Collection (Japanese American National Museum)

===Topaz=== (Central Utah), UT (Opened September 11, 1942. Closed October 31, 1945. Peak population 8,130.)

Topaz Camp

Topaz Museum

Hisako Hibi Collection Japanese American National Museum)

Topaz Japanese-American Relocation Center Digital Collection (Utah State U)

Images from Topaz (U Utah)

===Tule Lake, CA=== (Opened May 27, 1942. Closed March 20, 1946. Peak population 18,789.) Photographs from Tule Lake (U Utah)

Tule Lake Committee

Lawson Inada at Tule Lake

Photographers

Ansel Adams

• Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar (Library of Congress)

• Manzanar (National Park Service)

• Born free and equal, photographs of the loyal Japanese-Americans at Manzanar Relocation Center, Inyo County, California (New York, U.S. Camera, 1944)

Clem Albers

• Manzanar

• Manzanar (Powerpoint)

Howard Clifford

• Photographs in U Washington collections

Masumi Hayashi

• American Concentration Camps: Gallery

• Work of Masumi Hayashi

Dorothea Lange

• Dorothea Lange and the Evacuation of the Japanese

• Women Come to the Front: Dorothea Lange

• San Francisco Evacuation: early 1942 (Powerpoint)

• Tanforan Assembly Center (Powerpoint)

• Manzanar

• Manzanar: April - July 1942 (Powerpoint)

Toyo Miyatake

• Manzanar

Francis Stewart

• Manzanar

• Flickr -- includes Poston, Manzanar

Bibliographies

• Discover Nikkei

• Finding Aid to the War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945

• Finding Aid to the Toyo Suyemoto Papers