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Collection Title:	Records of the American Friends Service Committee, Midwest Branch, Advisory Committee for Evacuees
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Quaker social service organization which coordinated Chicago-area aid to displaced Japanese Americans from 1942 to 1945.
Collection Title:	Robert C. Anderton report
Repository:	University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections.
Summary:	The Robert C. Anderton report (1969) consist of Anderton's University of Utah class project paper on Topaz as a relocation center for Japanese Americans during World War II.
Collection Title:	Emery E. Andrews Papers
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	A pastor at Seattle's Japanese Baptist Church who, during World War II, ministered to Japanese American incarceration center inmates, principally those in Camp Minidoka.
Collection Title:	Clarence T. Arai papers
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Family history and scrapbook of World War I military service and pre-World War II experience of Clarence Arai and the broader Japanese American community in Seattle
Collection Title:	Brennan Family papers
Repository:	Montana Historical Society, Research Center Archives
Summary:	This collection consists of papers of James P. Brennan. Margaret Henderson Brennan and Patricia Brennan Taylor. The James P. Brennan subgroup (1879-1983) consists of family history and scattered correspondence, speeches, and clippings relating to his work for the Lower Yellowstone Valley Development Association; Montana Railroad Commission; U.S. Employment Office Farm Placement Program; and Montana Unemployment Compensation Commission a Montana Representative. The Margaret Henderson Brennan subgroup (1883-1963) consists of family history materials for the Henderson and Bergan's; and a scrapbook with World War II events and her husband's career. The Patricia Brennan Taylor subgroup (1941-1945, 1987, 1991) consists of correspondence and writings relating to her work for the Great Falls Tribune during World War II and her father's career.
Collection Title:	Broadsides and printed ephemera collection
Repository:	University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives
Summary:	The broadsides and printed ephemera collection is an artificial collection containing printed posters, notices, proclamations, brochures, advertisements, leaflets, programs, and other ephemera. The bulk of the collection represents Oregon events, politics, and history.
Collection Title:	William Sherman Burgoyne papers
Repository:	Oregon Historical Society Research Library
Summary:	Papers and images relating to the life and career of Methodist minister William Sherman Burgoyne.
Collection Title:	Church Council of Greater Seattle records
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Records of an organization of Christian churches in Seattle, Washington.
Collection Title:	Civilian Exclusion Order posters
Repository:	University of Puget Sound, Archives & Special Collections
Summary:	Civilian exclusion order notices were posted in highly visible spots within designated exclusion areas to notify Japanese Americans of their impending removal and incarceration by the United States government during World War II. This collection contains two examples of civilian exclusion order notices titled "Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry."
Collection Title:	Walter Cline papers
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Materials from Walter Cline's work as a Special Agent for the Farm Security Administration; he was tasked with the forced evacuation of Japanese and Japanese-American people from their homes on the West Coast to government camps
Collection Title:	Marian Covington Papers
Repository:	Montana Historical Society, Research Center Archives
Summary:	These papers (1896-1976) of Marian Covington consist of materials of the Montana MVA Association, as collected by Miss Covington in her role as secretary. Also included are personal materials of Marian Covington, the Covington Family, and Jerome Locke. [Photographs transferred to Photograph Archives.] [OVERSIZE MATERIAL: in map case.]
Collection Title:	Crystal City Association records
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Copy of a report about WW II internment camp in Texas
Collection Title:	Violet Kazue De Cristoforo papers
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Documents of a Japanese-American evacuee aged 27 in 1942
Collection Title:	Klancy Clark De Nevers papers
Repository:	University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections.
Summary:	The Klancy Clark De Nevers papers (1960-2008) contain World War II research gathered by de Nevers in preparation for the writing or editing of three different books. De Nevers research focuses on World War II, Japanese internment, and Aberdeen, Washington (her hometown). The publications resulting from this research include; The Colonel and the Pacifist, and The Cohasset Beach Chronicles that are a compilation of newspaper articles written during World War II by Kathy Hogan, that were edited by de Nevers and Lucy Hart.
Collection Title:	Oral history interview with Nadyne Yoneko Dozono
Repository:	Oregon Historical Society Research Library
Summary:	Oral history interview with Nadyne Yoneko Dozono conducted by Clark Hansen from January 23 to February 5, 1998, as part of the Japanese American Oral History Project. Dozono was a Japanese American born in Portland, Oregon. From 1931 to 1953, she lived in Japan, where she experienced World War II as though she were a Japanese citizen. After the war, she worked with the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission.
Collection Title:	Ella Evanson Scrapbooks
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Teacher, George Washington junior high school, Seattle, during the evacuation of Japanese Americans from the West Coast during WW II.
Collection Title:	Mary Farquharson Papers
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Washington State senator and liberal activist who aided incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II.
Collection Title:	Yoshito Fujii Papers
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Papers of a Japanese American businessman and civic leader who was removed from Seattle to the Minidoka Relocation Center in Idaho during World War II
Collection Title:	Betty Fukuyama papers
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Papers of a Washington poet who also participated in a church mission project at the Camp Minidoka internment camp in Idaho.
Collection Title:	Jessica Furman scrapbook
Repository:	University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections.
Summary:	The Jessica Furman scrapbook (2007) contains the handmade book of a class trip to Topaz, the Japanese-American internment camp in Utah.
Collection Title:	Granada Relocation Center Records
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Records of a council responsible for governance of community life at the Granada Relocation Center in southeastern Colorado, where thousands of Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II.
Collection Title:	Camden M. Hall papers
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Case files and political ephemera of attorney Camden M. Hall
Collection Title:	Hara family papers
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Materials related to the Hara family and their experience as Japanese-Americans being incarcerated during World War II in Washington and Idaho
Collection Title:	William Hasegawa papers
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Papers of Japanese American evacuated to Hunt, Idaho, during World War II
Collection Title:	Harry R. Hatate Papers
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	A maintenance supervisor at the Minidoka Relocation Center during World War II.
Collection Title:	Higano family papers
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	A Seattle Japanese American family, some of whose members were incarcerated at Camp Harmony in Puyallup, Washington, and the Minidoka Relocation Center in Hunt, Idaho
Collection Title:	Robert H. Hinckley papers
Repository:	University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections.
Summary:	The Robert H. Hinckley papers (1891-1997) reflect the academic, humanitarian, and political career of Hinckley (1891-1988). Included are correspondence, invitations, speeches, meeting minutes, personal materials, and papers resulting from his service with the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, Civil Works Administration, Works Progress Admininstration, the Civil Aeronautics Authority, and other organizations and companies.
Collection Title:	Gordon K. Hirabayashi papers
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Papers, photographs, and other materials of a Japanese American in Seattle, including his experiences during World War II
Collection Title:	Hiroyuki Ichihara papers
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Papers of the director of Area D of the Japanese Advisory Council at Camp Harmony in Washington State, 1942.
Collection Title:	Kaoru Ichihara papers
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Japanese American evacuee, World War II.
Collection Title:	Interviews with Japanese Americans in Utah
Repository:	University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections.
Summary:	The interviews with Japanese Americans in Utah (1984-1988) consists of transcripts of a series of interviews conducted with members of the Japanese community between 1984 and 1988. Common themes within the interviews are family life, work, religion, immigration experiences, discrimination, and relations with the Mormon establishment in Utah.
Collection Title:	Oral history interview with George Iseri
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Oral history interview of a Japanese American who was interned at Tule Lake internment camp during World War II
Collection Title:	Sachiko Iwami memoir
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Memoir of a Seattle Japanese American
Collection Title:	Oral history interview with George Iwasaki
Repository:	Oregon Historical Society Research Library
Summary:	Oral history interview with George Iwasaki conducted by Etsu Osaki from August 19 to September 16, 1992, as part of the Japanese American Oral History Project. Iwasaki was a Japanese American farmer and was incarcerated with his family during World War II.
Collection Title:	Japanese American Citizens League Scrapbook
Repository:	Boise State University Library, Special Collections and Archives
Summary:	Scrapbook of newspaper clippings from Utah, Idaho, and Cheyenne, Wyoming relating to issues such as the relocation and military service of Japanese American citizens in those states during World War II.
Collection Title:	Japanese American relocation collection
Repository:	University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections.
Summary:	The Japanese American relocation collection (1941-1945) contain materials concerned with the War Relocation Authority (WRA), the Tule Lake Relocation Center, the Topaz Relocation Center, and the Heart Mountain Relocation Project. The collection contains correspondence, reports, statistics, magazine articles, newspaper articles, and other related material. In 1942, after the Pearl Harbor Bombing, Americans of Japanese ancestry, living on the West Coast, were ordered to relocation centers in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming; many of these camps did not close until 1945.
Collection Title:	Japanese-American Relocation Center Newsletters
Repository:	Western Oregon University Archives
Summary:	This collection includes 14 different titles (newsletters) from Japanese American relocation centers located in the United States from 1942-1943.
Collection Title:	Chihiro Kikuchi papers
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Letters and clippings of a Japanese-American who attempted to continue his graduate school education during WWII
Collection Title:	Joseph Koide Papers
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Japanese American whose papers include reports and publications from several World War II relocation camps, particularly the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming
Collection Title:	Mike Mackey collection
Repository:	Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Summary:	The Mike Mackey Collection contains correspondence to and from individuals who were incarcerated at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center during World War II, and research materials related to the internment of Japanese Americans. This collection also contains videocassettes, the majority of which are from the 50th Anniversary Symposium on the history of Heart Mountain.
Collection Title:	Mike M. Masaoka papers
Repository:	University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections.
Summary:	Mike M. Masaoka served as National Secretary (1941-1943) and Washington lobbyist (1945-1953) for the Japanese American Citizens' League. He was a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II and served as president of the Japan-America Society. He was active in issues of immigration reform and compensation for victims of wartime internment. The collection includes scrapbooks, yearbooks, correspondence, court and congressional documents, articles, oral history transcripts, and autobiography of Mike M. Masaoka which document his life as a Japanese American citizen. This collection documents the history and problems of Japanese American immigration, evacuation and internment during World War II, efforts to seek redress for damages, the Japanese American Citizens' League, minority issues of Japanese Americans, Japanese trade and culture, and Hawaiian statehood.
Collection Title:	Minoru Masuda papers
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Papers of a professor of psychiatry at the University of Washington and civil rights activist for Japanese Americans
Collection Title:	Iwao Matsushita papers
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Papers of a Japanese American college professor and librarian at University of Washington, and teacher at Japanese Language School, Seattle, Washington
Collection Title:	Minidoka Relocation Camp Photograph Collection
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Photographs documenting life at the Minidoka Relocation Center, Hunt, Idaho; taken for the U.S. War Relocation Authority by photographer Francis Stewart.
Collection Title:	Katsu and Grace Miya papers
Repository:	University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections.
Summary:	The Katsu and Grace Miya papers (1901-2008) consist of newspapers, notes, and various other documents regarding the Japanese internment during WWII, the 442 Regimental Combat Team, and Nisei life in the United States.
Collection Title:	S. Frank Miyamoto collection
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	University of Washington sociologist who acquired ephemera about the evacuation of Japanese Americans from the West Coast in 1942.
Collection Title:	Yoshiaki Mukai papers
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Student records, assignments, and textbooks of Yoshiaki Mukai, a Japanese-American student at the University of Washington who was interned at the Puyallup Assembly Center and the Minidoka Relocation Center during World War II
Collection Title:	Oral history interview with John Y. Murakami
Repository:	Oregon Historical Society Research Library
Summary:	Oral history interview with John Y. Murakami conducted by George Katagiri from July 13-20, 1992, as part of the Japanese American Oral History Project. Murakami, the son of Japanese immigrants, was born in Sherwood, Oregon. During World War II, Murakami served in the U.S. Army while his family was incarcerated at the Minidoka War Relocation Center. He was awarded a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star. After the war, he worked in construction and taught at Benson Polytechnic High School in Portland.
Collection Title:	Wesley Goodson Nicholson papers
Repository:	University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives
Summary:	Wesley Goodson Nicholson was the pastor of the First Congregational Church in Eugene, Oregon from 1943-1975. The collection consists of correspondence; manuscripts of sermons, speeches, and prayers/invocations; files documenting the political and social activities and organizations in which he was involved; subject files; and audiotapes of Nicholson's sermons and services.
Collection Title:	Kadsuo and Riu Hata Nishijima papers [photocopies]
Repository:	University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections.
Summary:	The Kadsuo "Harry" and Riu Hata Nishijima papers (1942-1998) consist of photocopies of materials regarding the Japanese American internment camp known as Amache, located at the Granada War Relocation Center in Colorado.
Collection Title:	Willis Carl and Pearl Graul Nugent papers
Repository:	University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections.
Summary:	The Willis Carl and Pearl Graul Nugent papers (1940-2009) contain biographical information, a sermon, publications, and drawings of the Topaz Relocation Center.
Collection Title:	Robert W. O'Brien papers and oral history interview
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Interview discussing events during and after World War Two, including Japanese Relocation, the Japanese-American Student Relocation Council, Seattle Race Relations, and his work with the Civic Unity Committee
Collection Title:	Walter M. Pierce papers
Repository:	University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives
Summary:	Collection consists of correspondence, speeches, reports, photographs and material covering U.S. and Northwest history and politics. A major portion details Pierce's involvement with New Deal programs. The papers deal with agriculture, irrigation and land reclamation, public ownership, forest management, and the development of hydroelectric power. There are substantial files on the Civilian Conservation Corps, Public Works Administration and Works Progress Administration, files on significant government issues and minority groups. The subject files contain pamphlets and material on pertinent topics, speech files, bills introduced by Pierce, a newspaper clippings file, personal and estate papers, and drafts of Pierce's memoirs.
Collection Title:	Mildred Pieters Collection on Internment Camps
Repository:	Boise State University Library, Special Collections and Archives
Summary:	Collection of newspaper clippings about the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II, including Minidoka War Relocation Center (also known as the Hunt Camp) in Jerome County, Idaho and Posten camp on the Colorado River Indian Tribes Reservation in Arizona.
Collection Title:	Alfred Powers papers
Repository:	Oregon Historical Society Research Library
Summary:	Collection of original historical materials relating to Oregon and Pacific northwest history, including business records, school records, scrapbooks, catalogs, and ephemera.
Collection Title:	Ring family papers
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Seattle peace activists who corresponded with several incarcerated Issei and Nisei citizens, including Gordon Hirabayashi, during World War II.
Collection Title:	James Y. Sakamoto Papers
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Nisei community leader and newspaper publisher in Seattle who during World War II was incarcerated with his family at Camp Harmony in Washington and the Minidoka Relocation Center in Idaho.
Collection Title:	Guide to the Scandinavians in Washington's Politics Research Paper
Repository:	Pacific Lutheran University, Archives and Special Collections
Summary:	An historical account of the influence of Scandinavian Americans on Pacific Northwest politics and political movements, beginning with Scandinavian settlement of Washington State in the late 19th Century until the mid 1970s.
Collection Title:	Seattle University Japanese Remembrance Garden Records
Repository:	Seattle University, Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons, Special Collections
Summary:	This collection, assembled from the Seattle University Committee for the Japanese Remembrance Garden, contains planning documents, minutes, and reports of the committee (2004-2006). It also includes artifacts, news clippings, photographs and memorabilia relevant to family histories and internment at Minidoka Relocation Center in Idaho during World War Two, as well as selected sermons and photographs of Father Leopold H. Tibesar, a Maryknoll priest.
Collection Title:	Robert C. Sims Collection on Minidoka and Japanese Americans
Repository:	Boise State University Library, Special Collections and Archives
Summary:	The Robert C. Sims Papers contains material relating to his life-long research of Japanese Americans in World War II. This includes government reports and files, personal narratives and letters, interviews, articles and other media resources, books, photographs, and other materials. This collection also contains Sims' personal files, such as correspondence, speeches and presentations, published articles and reviews, and awards he received throughout his academic and personal career.
Collection Title:	Oral history interview with Gus J. Solomon
Repository:	Oregon Historical Society Research Library
Summary:	Oral history interview with Gus J. Solomon conducted by Rick Harmon from July 23 to October 18, 1984, as part of the United States District Court Oral History Project. Solomon was a judge for the U.S. District Court of Oregon.
Collection Title:	Oral history interview with Monroe Sweetland
Repository:	Oregon Historical Society Research Library
Summary:	Oral history interview with Monroe Sweetland conducted by Rick Harmon from November 16, 1984, to October 26, 1987, as part of the Oregon Legislature Oral History Series. Sweetland was an Oregon state representative and senator.
Collection Title:	Oral history interview with Monroe Sweetland
Repository:	Oregon Historical Society Research Library
Summary:	Oral history interview with Monroe Sweetland conducted by Andrew Bryans on March 16, 2002, as part of the Oregon Legislature Oral History Series. Sweetland was an Oregon state representative and senator.
Collection Title:	Charles Theodore Takahashi Papers
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	A Seattle Japanese American businessman who was incarcerated at Camp Harmony in Puyallup, Washington, and at Camp Minidoka in Idaho during World War II
Collection Title:	Sandra C. Taylor papers
Repository:	University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections.
Summary:	The Sandra C. Taylor papers (1942-1999) contain research files, notes, material related to Vietnam and the Vietnam War, and photocopies of documents produced by the War Relocation Authority Board relative to the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. There is also material primarily relating to the conflict in Indochina, and its repercussions in American society. Also included are manuscript drafts written by Taylor and by others whose research she consulted. Taylor is a professor of history at the University of Utah.
Collection Title:	Topaz Museum interviews
Repository:	University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections.
Summary:	Transcripts of interviews (2008) conducted with individuals associated with internees at the Topaz internment camp in Utah.
Collection Title:	Topaz oral history project collection
Repository:	University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections.
Summary:	The Topaz oral history project collection interviews (1987-1993) were conducted by Sandra Taylor, of the University of Utah's Department of History. The interviews were part of her research for Jewel of the desert: Japanese American internment at Topaz (1993). Also included are correspondence, news clippings, published and unpublished articles, and research files.
Collection Title:	Oral history interview with Jim Tsugawa
Repository:	Oregon Historical Society Research Library
Summary:	Oral history interview with Jim Tsugawa conducted by Sankar Raman and Elizabeth Mehren on July 19, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Tsugawa was born in Hillsboro, Oregon, in 1932, and was incarcerated at the Minidoka War Relocation Center in Jerome County, Idaho, during World War II. He later served in the U.S. Army and became a dentist in Portland, Oregon.
Collection Title:	Yoshiko Uchida papers
Repository:	University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives
Summary:	Yoshiko Uchida was a writer of children's books. The Uchida Papers contain manuscripts, correspondence and material relating to her literary career. The collection contains materials on fourteen of her books. The majority of Uchida's papers concern Japan, specifically Japanese folktales and children's stories. The correspondence in this collection primarily concerns Uchida's editor and fan mail from school children. The manuscripts are arranged chronologically starting with The Dancing Kettle written in 1949 and ending with the Samurai of Gold Hill written in 1972.
Collection Title:	United States War Relocation Authority Central Utah Project Records
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Records of Topaz, Utah, relocation center of the WRA, where Japanese Americans from the San Francisco Bay Area were housed during World War II.
Collection Title:	University of Oregon Office of the Dean of Personnel Administration. National Japanese American Student Relocation Council records
Repository:	University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives
Summary:	The National Japanese American Student Relocation Council was created by university administrators as a means of relocating Japanese American college students to other universities and colleges away from the West coast during World War II, and to prevent these students from being interned in government-run internment camps. At the University of Oregon, Karl Onthank, Dean of Personnel Administration, represented the University in relocating UO Japanese American students. The collection includes correspondence, newsletters, speeches, minutes of meetings, and ephemera.
Collection Title:	Oral history interview with Tatsuro Yada
Repository:	Oregon Historical Society Research Library
Summary:	Oral history interview with Tatsuro Yada conducted by Taka Mizote on March 8, 1992, as part of the Japanese American Oral History Project. Yada was born in Portland, Oregon, and grew up in Salem. After graduating from Willamette University, he took over the family farm. During World War II, he and his family were incarcerated by the U.S. government at the Tule Lake Relocation Center in California. After their release, he returned to farming.
Collection Title:	Young Men's Christian Association, University Branch records
Repository:	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Summary:	Records of the YMCA (Seattle, Wash.) University Branch, documenting its programs, activism, buildings, and members.

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