Index
All Collections in Archive
1900s-1930s Photographs
Photographs of Kishiro 1900s-1920s (71 items)
Photographs of Tomi 1900s-1930s (60 items)
Photographs of Kishiro and Tomi's families in Japan in Naegi and Tokyo respectively (44 items)
Kishiro and Tomi's Children:
Photographs of Kimi (childhood to marriage) 1900s-1930s (40 items)
Album Created by Kimi and Bob Ono (68 items)
Photographs of Sus during his Childhood, (Childhood in Oakland and then in Japan) 1900s-1920s (10+ items)
Photographs of Sus (as an adult in college in U.S., and his wedding) 1920s-1930s (61 items)
Photographs of Chiz (and her family) 1900s-1930s (44 items)
Album made by Chiz with photographs of her in high school (98 items) Note: Each item is a scan of her album page, not each photograph in the album.
Albums made by Chiz with photographs of her in college and after, including her kid, Kiku or "Kix". (62 pages) Note: Each item is a scan of her album page, not each photograph in the album.
Chiz' Nursing School yearbook (10 items)
Photographs of John 1910s-1930s (8 items)
Photographs of Iyo 1910s-1930s (3 items/5 photographs)
Photographs of Kay 1910s-1930s, (17 items)
Photographs of Tom 1920s-1930s (5 items)
A Life in the Bay Photographs of Chiz' Friends, Kay's Friends in 1920s and 1930s, and general family photos (319 items)
1930s Documents
John's college papers at UC Berkeley, 1930s.
Tomi' Patented Pregnancy Girdle Design, 1916 (Included in Tomi's Pre-WWII Album)
1940s Correspondence
Kiyo's Diary from 1942. (Sus' wife) Transcription included. Scan of three pages. Photographs of entire diary forthcoming.
Family Correspondence 1942 (28 items)
Family Correspondence 1943 (85 items)
Family Correspondence 1944(65 items)
Family Correspondence 1945 (20 items)
Documents and Photographs of Life Outside of Incarceration of some family members who received leave from indefinite incarceration. Example: Ration Books, John at Seminary. (21 items)
Kay's Work and Personal Correspondence (115 items, includes documents associated with the Japanese American Student Relocation Council by American Friends Service Committee and communciations with Fellowship of Reconciliation and church friends and Quaker supporters)
Correspondence with students entering college from incarceration. (8 items).
American Friends Service Committee correspondence and documents related to Japanese American Student Relocation Activities (70 items)
John Yamashita papers (1942-1945) documents related to Garrett Seminary, (132 items)
1940s Other Documents
Trial, US v. Townsend, et al, 1942 which Kay participated in as a Witness, US v. Townsend, et al, 1942 (10 items)
War Relocation Authority Government Files on Family Members
Government WRA File on Tomi (8 items)
Government WRA File on Kimi (4 items)
Government WRA File on Bob Ono (14 items)
Government WRA File on Sus (56 items)
Government FBI File on Sus (31 items)
Government WRA File on Chiz (20 items)
Government WRA File on Ed Kitow (23 items)
Government WRA File on John (20 items)
Government WRA File on Iyo (4 items)
Government WRA File on Kay (21 items)
1940s Photographs
Photographs during Incarceration (34 items)
Post World War II: Japanese American Methodist Church Hostel in Oakland supporting Resettlement in Oakland
Japanese Methodist Church Hostel Documents 1945-1946 (TBD items)
Included in this topic:
Correspondence with Incarcerees resettling on the East Coast (21 items)
Correspondence with Incarcerees at Gila River Camp(14 items)
Hostel Operations: Food, Blankets, and Laundry (23 items)
Correspondence with Incarcerees at Topaz Camp (24 items)
Correspondence with Incarcerees at Tule Lake Camp (3 items)
Correspondence with Incarcerees resettling with Oakland (28 items)
Organizational File by Ish Isokawa (Ish managed the hostel with John) (11 items)
War Relocation Authority related (17 items)
Warehouse Storage at Japanese Methodist Church of Oakland (62 items)
(More to come)
Post War Correspondence and Letters
Family Correspondence 1946-1948 (23 items)
Oakland West Tenth Methodist Church, 1945 (82 items)
1950s-1970s Correspondence and Letters
Family Correspondence 1950s-1970s (85 items)
Letters from Kay and John to Howard Thurmond (26 items)
1950s-1960s Photos
Tomi's Photos 1950s-1960s (137 items)
Kimi's Family Photos 1950s-1960s (including Marty and Ted's families) (53 items)
Sus' Family Photos 1950s-1960s (185 items)
Chiz' Family Photos 1950s-1960s (54 items)
John's Family Photos 1950s-1970s (111 items)
Iyo's Family Photos 1950s-1960s (61 items)
Kay's Photos 1950s-1970s (19 items)
Tom's Family Photos 1950s-1970s (80 items)
Audio Interview 1972
Audio recording of interview with Tomi, 1972 (11 items)
1970s Documents
Research on Family History in Japan conducted by Karen Tei Yamashita, 1970s (Including a reproduction of Buddhist Scrolls of Family Lineage) and Ann Tamaki Dion's research (91 items, more items to be uploaded)
Oral History and Family Research 1990s - 2000s
Oral History Interview of Kay by American Friends Service Committee History Project, 1991.
Oral History Interviews of Iyo and Min Tamaki by the Oakland Museum of California and Oakland Unified School District's Oral History Project, 1995.
Ann Dion's Research on Family History, 2003.