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Gordon K. Hirabayashi photograph collection, approximately 1909-2012
Overview of the Collection
- Photographer
- Hirabayashi, Gordon K.
- Title
- Gordon K. Hirabayashi photograph collection
- Dates
- approximately 1909-2012 (inclusive)19092012
- Quantity
-
180
photographic prints (2 boxes, 4 folders) ; sizes vary
3 negatives (1 folder) - Collection Number
- PH1314
- Summary
- Images of Gordon Hirabayashi, friends and family
- Repository
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
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Entire collection can be viewed on the Libraries Digital Collections website. Permission of Visual Materials Curator is required to view originals.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Gordon Kiyoshi Hirabayashi was born on April 23, 1918 to Shungo and Mitsuko Hirabayashi. Shungo Hirabayashi immigrated to the United States in 1907 from a farming community in Nagano prefecture, Japan. He and Mitsuko married in 1914 when she traveled to the United States for their arranged marriage. One year later they moved and farmed on the shore of Lake Washington in the Sand Point area of Seattle, where Gordon Kiyoshi Hirabayashi was born in 1918. The family moved to Thomas, Washington in the White River Valley near Auburn where Gordon and his four siblings, Edward, James, Esther Toshiko, and Richard, were raised. Gordon Hirabayashi graduated from Auburn High School in 1935 and started at the University of Washington in 1937.
Hirabayashi began his studies as a part-time student at the University of Washington in the fall of 1937. He worked throughout college and was an active member of the Young Mens Christian Association (YMCA) on the University of Washington campus in Eagleson Hall. Through the YMCA he received room and board for tending the furnace in the building. In 1940 Hirabayashi was awarded a fellowship to attend a YMCA and YWCA sponsored leadership conference at Columbia University. He was influenced by many Christian leaders and his experience at the conference broadened his awareness of isolationist and pacifist arguments against United States involvement in the growing conflicts in Europe and the Pacific. He returned to Seattle in the fall of 1940 and registered for the draft as a conscientious objector and became a Quaker and member of the Religious Society of Friends.
After Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 those of Japanese ancestry were subject to harsh restrictions on basic freedoms. On February 19, 1942, Executive Order 9066 was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorizing the mass forced removal and incarceration of all West Coast Japanese Americans. Many business and home owners were forced to leave a majority of their belongings behind as they were removed first to temporary assembly centers and then to relocation camps. Many would lose their land and belongings while incarcerated. Hirabayashi was among the American Friends Service Committee volunteers who assisted families with the relocation, including arranging storage of their belongings. Hirabayashi's parents and family in Thomas, Washington were uprooted from their farm and moved to the Pinedale assembly center, California and then to Tule Lake Relocation Camp, California.
Instead of registering for relocation, Hirabayashi turned himself in to the FBI with the objective of testing the relocation and incarceration order's constitutionality without a due process of law. He was charged with violating the curfew and exclusion orders and was represented by Arthur Barnett, and was supported by a defense fund - the Gordon Hirabayashi Defense Committee. The committee was organized by Mary Farquharson, lawyer for the University District of the ACLU, and law partners Arthur Barnett, John Geisness, and later Frank L. Walters. Hirabayashi was indicted on May 28, 1942 and was arraigned on June 1, 1942, at which time he entered a plea of "not guilty," stating that both the exclusion law and curfew were racially prejudiced and unconstitutional. His trial was on October 20, 1942 before Judge Lloyd D. Black. He lost his case and was sentenced to 90 days at the Dupont road camp outside Tacoma. His case was taken to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, where the court declined to rule and passed the case on to the Supreme Court. On May 10, 1943 the court did not tackle the constitutionality of the exclusion order as Hirabayashi had hoped but instead the heard arguments pertaining only to the violation of the curfew order. On June 21, 1943 there was a unanimous ruling in Hirabayashi v. United States, (320 U.S. 81) upholding the earlier Hirabayashi conviction and that the curfew order was justified by military necessity and allowable in a time of war. Hirabayashi was to serve his sentence at the Tucson Federal Prison in Arizona but was required to provide his own transportation there. He hitchhiked 1,600 miles in the fall of 1943 from Spokane, Washington to Tucson, Arizona where he had to convince officials at the Catalina Federal Honor Camp he had a legitimate order that authorized his acceptance into the prison. The prison had yet to receive his papers and confirmation that he was to serve his sentence there so they told him to go to a movie and return later. Upon his return they had indeed found his papers and he was admitted to the prison. He was released in December 1943 and returned to Spokane.
Gordon Hirabayashi married Esther Schmoe in a Quaker ceremony in Spokane, Washington on July 29, 1944. They had met while studying at the University of Washington. In 1945 they had twin daughters, Sharon and Marion and in 1946 they had a son, Jay. Hirabayashi continued his education at the University of Washington, completing his B.A. in 1946 and then his M.A. in 1949, and Ph.D. in sociology in 1952. Hirabayashi took a position in the Sociology Department at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon in 1951 and then at the American University in Cairo where he taught and was assistant director of the Social Research Center until 1959. The family moved to Edmonton, Canada where he continued to teach sociology and became the Chair of the Department in 1963. He retired 20 years later.
Shortly after retirement, Hirabayashi was contacted by Peter Irons, a civil rights attorney who while conducting research for a book on the Supreme Court's dealings with the Japanese Internment cases, discovered a document revealing government wrongdoing. Other documents and reports were found, among them General John L. DeWitt's Final Report draft on Japanese Incarceration. Hirabayashi agreed to have a team of lawyers re-open his wartime case and file a coram nobis petition stating that the government, during World War II, had suppressed, altered, and destroyed material evidence. In 1987 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Hirabayashi's case, vacating his previous conviction.
Gordon Hirabayashi met Susan Carnahan of Edmonton, Alberta at a Quaker meeting where he was a long time member. Hirabayashi and his first wife, Esther, had divorced in the early 1970s and in 1986 he married Susan Carnahan, a free-lance writer and photographer. Hirabayashi toured and spoke at universities and other venues about his experiences, including participating in a panel discussion in Japan in 1988. He was honored with many awards such as the University of Washington’s Distinguished Alumnus Award and the San Francisco Certificate of Honors as well as honorary degrees from University of Lethbridge, Michigan State University, and Hamline University. The Tucson Federal Prison site where Hirabayashi had served his sentence for refusing the curfew and exclusion order become a part of the Coronado National Forest and a recreation site and was named after him in 1999. Hirabayashi died on January 2, 2012. In May he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama, the highest civilian honor awarded.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Includes photographs of Shungo and Mitsuko Hirabayashi, Gordon Hirabayashi's parents, with family and friends. Also includes Gordon Hirabayashi's early life, time at the University of Washington, family and friends, Gordon Hirabayashi and lawyers for his coram nobis case, as well as awards, events and memorials that commemorate the life of Gordon Hirabayashi.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
The donors have retained the copyrights (but do not own copyrights to all materials). Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries for details.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Acquisition Information
Donor Sharon Yuen, Marion Oldenburg, Jay Hirabayashi, and Susan Carnahan, 2013 and 2018.
43 additional photos transferred from papers, October 19, 2018.
Processing Note
Processed by Stefanie Terasaki, 2015; Processing completed in 2015. Updated by Melody Smith, 2019.
Separated Materials
Material Described Separately:Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Shungo and Mitsuko HirabayashiReturn to Top
Includes images of Shungo and Mitsuko Hirabayashi as well as relatives and friends.
Gordon's parents, Shungo and Mitsuko Hirabayashi were married in 1914. They both studied English at the Kenshi Gijuku Academy in Japan where they converted to Christianity and became followers of Kanzo Uchimura who founded the Mukyokai movement in Japan.
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/1 | 1 | 1909? | |
½ | 2 |
Studio portrait of Shungo Hirabayashi
with six others Aiko Studio,Seattle,
Washington (photographer)
Written in Japanese on verso: Photo taken in Seattle, United
States. Motoyoshi Hirabayashi, Tamotsu Maruyama, Eichi Nishizawa, Koji Itoh,
Ha[ill.] Hirabayashi, Shungo Hirabayashi, Toshiharu Hirabayashi. Likely the men who formed a garden collective along the shores
of Lake Washington and later moved to Thomas, Washington where they formed a
Christian cooperative, White River Garden.
|
August 17, 1910 |
1/3 | 3 | 1910? | |
1/3 | 4 |
Portrait of Hotaka Club families on
steps of the Hotaka Club, Seattle, Washington Written on verso: Katsuno behind Shungo Hirabayashi. On Shungo's
left-Hirabayashi who owned Beltown Grocery and on second left-Hirabayashi on
the farm next door.The Hotaka Club in Seattle was established by Japanese
immigrants who were former students at Kensei Gijuku Academy, Hotaka, Nagano
prefecture, Japan.
|
Between 1910 and 1912? |
1/3 | 5 | Between 1910 and 1915? | |
box:oversize | |||
KVXC1 | 6 |
Shungo Hirabayashi and other men
standing outdoors with the Nippon-Kan Hotel Astor Theater in background,
Seattle, Washington Printed in Japanese on verso: Mizuho club sponsored Doctor
Inagaki welcome party photo. (Includes a list of all the men in photograph)
|
March 11, 1912? |
Box/Folder | |||
1/4 | 7 |
Mitsuko Suzawa in kimono After Shungo and Mitsuko's families arranged their marriage,
Mitsuko attended the Kenshi Gijuku Academy to learn English and joined Shungo
in Seattle, Washington in 1914. They registered their marriage in Hotaka,
Nagano Prefecture, Japan and held a ceremony in Seattle.
|
1913? |
box:oversize | |||
KVXC1 | 8 |
Shungo Hirabayashi and others on steps
and porch of house Toyo Studio,Seattle,
Washington (photographer)
|
1914? |
Box/Folder | |||
1/4 | 9 | 1914? | |
1/4 | 10 |
Shungo Hirabayashi outside farmhouse,
White River Garden Cooperative, Thomas, Washington Shungo Hirabayashi constructed the farmhouse.
|
1919? |
box:oversize | |||
KVXC1 | 11 |
Shungo, Mitsuko and Paul Hirabayashi on
front porch of house with other families Toyo Studio,Seattle,
Washington (photographer)
Printed in Japanese on verso: Kyodoen anniversary.Shungo and Mitsuko's first son was Paul Hirabayashi who died at
young age in 1919 after a bicycle accident.
|
August 20, 1916 |
KVXC1 | 12 | 1920 | |
Box/Folder | |||
1/5 | 13 |
Portrait of Shungo
Hirabayashi Takano Studio,Seattle (photographer)
Written in Japanese: For Gordon's Family. Birthday anniversary,
75 years old.
|
October 21, 1963 |
Gordon HirabayashiReturn to Top
Gordon Hirabayashi was born April 23, 1918. Gordon and his family lived in Thomas, Washington in the White River Valley near Auburn, Washington. He graduated from Auburn High School in 1935.
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Pre-War |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/6 | 14 | 1934 | |
1/6 | 15 | 1934 | |
1/6 | 16 | Between 1934 and 1935? | |
1/6 | 17 | 1935 | |
1/6 | 18 |
Group portrait of fifth annual sectional Young People
Christian Conference attendees, Ingraham Memorial Japanese Methodist Episcopal
Church, Tacoma, Washington Associated Photographic Service, Inc Tacoma, Washington (photographer)
|
March 22, 1936 |
1/6 | 19 |
Portrait of Gordon Hirabayashi taken at the Young
People Christian Conference, Seattle Jackson Studio (photographer)
|
November 29, 1936 |
1/6 | 19a |
Group photograph at the Fourth Annual Young People's
Christian Convention Auburn, Washington Included in the photograph are Gordon Hirabayashi, Reverend
U.G. Murphy, Martin Hirabayashi, Shungo Hirabayashi and Mr. S. Hirabayashi.
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April 5, 1936 |
University of Washington and Young Men's Christian
Association |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/7 | 20-22 |
Hirabayashi in athletic wear on a basketball
court Alfred S. Witter,Seattle, Washington (photographer)
|
1938 |
1/7 | 23 | May 30, 1938 | |
1/7 | 24 |
Gordon and Satoshi Hoshi with two others Alfred S. Witter,Seattle, Washington (photographer)
|
1938? |
1/7 | 25 | February 18, 1940 | |
1/7 | 26 |
Hirabayashi with friends outside the International
House, New York Written on verso: Mary Lewis Walker, Becky Ross, Bob McF, Me,
Howie Scott in front of International House.The International House opened in Manhattan, New York in 1924.
It was conceived by YMCA official, Harry Edmonds and provides residency to
students from all over the world.
|
July 6, 1940 |
1/7 | 27 |
Hirabayashi and Jim Martin hitchhiking to
Seattle Written on verso: "thumbing on display. On the last leg of NYC
to Seattle trip.
|
September 1940 |
1/7 | 28 |
Hirabayashi with other students, University of
Washington, Seattle Written on verso: Social Problems of Minority Groups Advance,
Gordon Hirabayashi front left.
|
February 22, 1941 |
1/7 | 29 |
Hirabayashi with other members of the Y.M.C.A. and the
Y.W.C.A. Written on verso: Cheerio dinner at Woody's. Woody, Ken, Jan,
Bert, Fay, Lois, Paul, Ruth, Frank, How, Gordon (sitting).The University of Washington's Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. shared a
space in Eagelson Hall. Gordon was very active in the Y.M.C.A., becoming the
senior vice president under Howard Scott, his best friend and roommate, who
acted as president.
|
July 17, 1941 |
1/7 | 30 |
Hirabayashi with William Schmoe Written on verso: Gordon Hirabayashi with William (Bill)
Schmoe, Esther's younger brother.Gordon married Esther Schmoe, Gordon's older sister in 1944.
The Schmoe family was supportive of Gordon's resistance to the curfew and
exclusion laws.
|
1941 |
1/7 | 31-34 | May 1944 | |
Gordon Hirabayashi's Family |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/8 | 35-36 | July 29, 1944 | |
1/8 | 37 |
Hirabayashi Family portrait with Shungo, Mitsuko,
James, Richard, Esther and Esther (Tosh) The image was used for the Hirabayashi Christmas card in 1944.
The photograph was taken at the family's home in Spokane, Washington.
|
December 1944 |
1/8 | 38 | December 1944 | |
1/8 | 39 |
Gordon holding six month old twin daughters, Marion
and Sharon Alfred Miller,Seattle, Washington (photographer)
|
December 1945 |
1/8 | 40 |
Hirabayashi family portrait with Marion and
Sharon Includes family members Esther (Tosh), Mitsuko, Esther,
Marion, Sharon, James, Richard, Shungo, Gordon and Edward.
|
1946 |
1/8 | 41 | 1947 | |
1/9 | 42 |
Hirabayashi family portrait Amano Photo Studio,Seattle, Washington (photographer)
Printed in Japanese on verso of alternate copy: Memorial photo
of Seiichi's family for Prof Gordon who will depart to Syria.Included in photo are: James, Joanne, Edward, Esther (Tosh),
Sharon, Shungo, Jay, Gordon, Mari and Esther. Richard's picture is attached to
the top right corner of the portrait.
|
December 15, 1951 |
1/9 | 43 |
Shungo Hirabayashi with others gathered around
him Hotaka (photographer)
Written in Japanese on verso: With Mr. Hotaka's brother's
family and Haruko surrounding Hirabayashi Shungo.
|
1952 |
1/9 | 44 |
Gordon, Jan and Shungo Hirabayashi, Edmonton,
Canada Jan was Jim and Joanne's daughter.
|
1961 |
1/9 | 45 |
Gordon Hirabayashi with family celebrating a
birthday Written on verso: 42nd Birthday Party, Gordon Hirabayashi and
Marion Oldenburg (sitting), Sharon Yuen with daughter Alisha (in front), Steven
and Tiara Oldenburg standing with Shelley and Jenny Yuen in front, Susan
Carnahan in back with daughter Heather Secord, Dick Hirabayashi standing in
front.
|
July 24, 1987 |
Life After WWII Includes images of Gordon at the University of Washington,
activities in Cairo during the period he was teaching at the American
University, portraits and friends of Gordon Hirabayashi.
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/10 | 46 |
Hirabayashi and four other men in a meeting for
Washington Public Opinion Laboratory, University of Washington James O. Sneddon,Seattle, Washington (photographer)
Seated in photograph are Gordon Hirabayashi, Robert O'Brien,
P. Allen Rickles, Keith Griffiths, and Stuart Dodd.
|
July 1949 |
1/10 | 47 |
Group portrait at the UNESCO Seminar on the Teaching
of Social Studies, Damascus, Syria Azad Bamas (photographer)
|
August 31, 1954 |
1/10 | 48 |
Hirabayashi with twin brothers and a woman, Beirut,
Lebanon Written on verso: Armstrongs.
|
November 1954 |
1/10 | 49 | 1955? | |
1/10 | 50 | 1959 | |
1/10 | 51-52 | May 19, 1956 | |
1/10 | 53 | October 1956 | |
1/11 | 54 |
University of Alberta Faculty portrait of
Hirabayashi University of Alberta Photographic Services (photographer)
Written on verso: On the occasion of appointment to Head of
Department of Sociology and Anthropology and promotion to Prof. of
Sociology.
|
April 1964 |
1/11 | 55 | 1964? | |
1/11 | 56 |
Sadie and Shungo Hirabayashi After Gordon Hirabayashi's mother died his father, Shungo,
married Sadie.
|
January 1, 1970 |
1/11 | 57 | May 1971 | |
1/11 | 58 |
Gordon Hirabayashi seated with man and
woman Written on verso: Marie Kawamoto [ill.] and Peter.
|
August 21, 1979 |
1/11 | 59 | February 1983 | |
Re-opening Hirabayashi's case In the mid 1980s a team of lawyers reopened Hirabayashi’s case
on the basis of governmental misconduct. Working on Gordon’s case were lead
consuls Rod Kawakami and Kathryn Bannai, as well as Nettie Alvarez, Arthur
Barnett, Jeffrey Beaver, Camden Hall, Daniel Ichinaga, Gary Iwamoto, Craig
Kobayashi, Michael Leong, Diane Narasaki, Karen Narasaki, Rich Ralston, Sharon
Sakamoto, Roger Shimizu, and Benson Wong. A fundraising campaign was started by
the Committee to Reverse the Japanese American Wartime Cases to support
Hirabayashi's coram nobis case.
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/12 | 60 | June 1985 | |
1/12 | 61-62 | June 1985 | |
1/12 | 63 |
Susan Lee, Gordon Hirabayashi, Don Edwards, Norm
Mineta at fundraising rally, Washington D.C. Written on verso: The Washington Lawyers Ass'n held a special
fund-raising rally for my court case in 1985. Susan Lee President, Asian
American Lawyer Association, Washington D.C. Congressman Edwards of California,
Congressman Mineta of California.
|
July 15, 1985 |
1/12 | 64 | July 15, 1985 | |
1/12 | 65 |
Gordon Hirabayashi with Norm Mineta and others,
Washington D.C. Written on verso: Rep Mineta and Wash APA Law Group.
|
July 15, 1985 |
1/12 | 66-68 | July 15, 1985 | |
1/12 | 69-70 | July 15, 1985 | |
1/12 | 71-72 |
Fred Korematsu, Harry Ueno, Gordon Hirabayashi, George
Ikeda, and William Hohri on United States Supreme Court grounds, Washington
D.C. On April 20, 1987 the Supreme Court heard the National Council
for Japanese Americans Redress's case and lawsuit against the United States
government for damages caused by wartime incarceration.
|
April 20, 1987 |
Gordon and Susan Hirabayashi Gordon Hirabayashi and Susan Carnahan were married in 1986.
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/13 | 73a-c | Between 1980 and 1990? | |
1/13 | 73d | Portrait of Gordon Hirabayashi University of Alberta Photo Services (Photographer)
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October 17, 1986 |
1/14 | 74 | April 25, 1986 | |
1/14 | 75 | 1990? | |
1/14 | 76 | May 1993 | |
1/14 | 77 | April 1998 | |
1/14 | 78 | May 15, 1998 | |
1/14 | 79 | 2010 | |
Auburn High School Class of 1935 50th Anniversary
Reunion |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/15 | 80 |
Auburn High School Class of 1935 50th Anniversary
group photograph, Kent, Washington Written on verso: Class of 1935-Auburn High School Reunion
taken at the Meridian Valley Golf and Country Club located on the East Hill of
Kent.
|
August 24, 1985 |
1/15 | 81-83 | August 25, 1985 | |
1/15 | 84-85 |
Former Auburn High School students seated around table
for 50th Reunion brunch, Seattle, Washington Written on verso: 50th Reunion Brunch at Alice Fujinaga
Hayakawas. Gordon Hirabayashi, Louise Sako, Isoko Yoshihara, Harry Toku[ill.],
?, Koji Norikane, ?. Seattle, Wa.
|
August 25, 1985 |
1/15 | 86 | 1985 | |
Award Ceremonies and Events Includes awards and honors presented to Gordon Hirabayashi,
presentations he made, a play and other events and memorials that commemorate
Gordon's life.
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/16 | 87-94 | Between 1980 and 1990? | |
1/16 | 95 |
Gordon Hirabayashi portrait Steven Okazaki (photographer)
Written on verso: Steve Okazaki, Muchette Films, Fall 83.
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1983? |
1/16 | 96 |
Gordon Hirabayashi possibly at Christian Youth
Movement lecture Written on verso: SPG Lecture, CYM.
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May 1985 |
1/16 | 97 |
Gordon Hirabayashi speaking at a panel discussion in
Japan Written on verso: Lecture series in Japan sponsored by:
-Shinano [ill.] (Western Daily Newspaper, Nagano City and Matsumoto (my parents
home town), Japan [where the 1998 Winter Olympics will be held.] -NHK-TV (equal
to: BBC, CBC) -Kodansha (One of Japan's largest publishing houses).
|
October 1988 |
1/17 | 98 |
Photograph of painting "Gordon Kiyoshi Hirabayashi
American Defender of the United States Constitution" by Hiro Written on verso: Acrylic on canvas, framed on western red
cedar with barbed wire. 72" h x 36" w.
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July 1989 |
1/17 | 99-100 |
Actors in costume from R.A. Shiomi's play,
Play Ball Martha Swope Associates (photographer)
R.A. Shiomi's play was inspired by Gordon Hirabayashi's life.
Ron Nakahara played Gordon Hirabayashi in the 1989 production.
|
1989 |
1/18 | 101 |
Gordon Hirabayashi receiving an Honorary Doctorate of
Humanities at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan Gordon Hirabayashi was the 1991 winter commencement speaker at
Michigan State University.
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March 9, 1991 |
1/18 | 102 | March 9, 1991 | |
1/18 | 103 | March 9, 1991 | |
1/18 | 104 |
Gordon Hirabayashi speaking to students in a
classroom Typed on verso: Gordon Hirabayashi discusses his case with
high school students in A Personal Matter... PBS:
10/18/92 @ 10:30pm ET.
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1992 |
1/18 | 105 | June 12, 1993 | |
1/18 | 106 | May 17, 1998 | |
1/18 | 107a | May 22, 1998 | |
1/18 | 107b | May 22, 1998 | |
1/18 | 108-110 | 1999 | |
1/19 | 111 | 2000 | |
1/19 | 112-113 |
Susan and Gordon Hirabayashi with others at University
of Washington Celebration of Distinction University of Washington, Seattle
Mary Levin,Seattle (Photographer)
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2000 |
1/19 | 114 | 2000 | |
1/19 | 115 |
Gordon Hirabayashi with Lori Matsukawa at University
of Washington Celebration of Distinction University of Washington, Seattle
Mary Levin,Seattle (Photographer)
|
2000 |
1/19 | 116 | 2000 | |
1/19 | 117 | 2000 | |
1/20 | 118 |
Photograph of Gordon Hirabayashi's framed Presidential
Medal of Freedom and plaque Gordon Hirabayashi was awarded the Presidential Medal of
Freedom posthumously in 2012 by President Barack Obama.
|
2012? |
Gordon Hirabayashi Recreation Site
Dedication |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/21 | 119 |
Gordon Hirabayashi in front of sign for the Gordon
Hirabayashi Recreation Site at its dedication, Tucson, Arizona Gordon Hirabayashi served his time for refusing the curfew and
exclusion order at the Tucson Federal Prison. In 1999 the site become a part of
the Coronado National Forest and a recreation site and was named after him.
|
1999 |
1/21 | 120-122 | 1999 | |
1/21 | 123 | Japanese-Americans around the Gordon Hirabayashi
Recreation Site sign |
1999 |
1/21 | 124 | Foundations of Tucson Federal Prison at the Gordon
Hirabayashi Recretion Site |
1999 |
1/21 | 125 | Gordon Hirabayashi talking with two women holding the
Dedication Ceremony Program in a parking lot |
1999 |
1/21 | 126 | Gordon Hirabayashi talking with Japanese-American
woman |
1999 |
1/21 | 127-128 | 1999 | |
1/21 | 129 | Gordon Hirabayashi talking with others before the
Gordon Hirabayashi Recreation Site dedication ceremony |
1999 |
1/21 | 130-132 | 1999 | |
1/21 | 133 | 1999 | |
1/21 | 134 | 1999 | |
1/21 | 135 | 1999 | |
1/21 | 136 | Two men talking with a television camera behind them
at Gordon Hirabayashi Recreation Site dedication ceremony |
1999 |
1/21 | 137-138 | 1999 | |
1/21 | 139 | 1999 | |
1/21 | 140-145 | 1999 | |
1/22 | 146-150 | 1999? | |
1/22 | 151 | 1999 | |
1/22 | 152-159 | Images of the Gordon Hirabayashi Recreation Site
exhibit panel |
1999 |
1/22 | 160 | 1999 |
Gordon Hirabayashi's research and exhibit photographsReturn to Top
These items were used by Gordon Hirabayashi for his research and are copy photographs. Many are from an unknown source and are images of museum exhibits or Japanese incarceration.
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Incarceration research Photographs Some of the original photographs were taken by Francis Leroy
Stewart when he was photographing for the War Relocation Authority circa 1942-
circa 1943. Photographs that are verified Francis Stewart photographs are
available for use. All other images are of unknown origin and are for reference
use only.
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Identified Relocation Camp Photographs Photographs of identified relocation camps and activities.
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/23 | 161 | November 26, 1942 | |
1/23 | 162 | Two children walking in between barracks at Heart
Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming |
Between 1940 and 1950? |
1/23 | 163 |
Lieutenant Eugene Bogard reading from papers to
Japanese men, Manzanar Relocation Center, California Francis Stewart (photographer)
Lieutenant Eugene Bogard is explaining the purpose of
registration. Similar meetings were held at all centers for the purpose of
registering all evacuees between the ages of 18 and 38.
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February 11, 1943 |
1/23 | 164 | Pond outside a barrack with a small boat and
bridges, Poston Camp 1, Arizona |
Between 1942 and 1943? |
Relocation Camp Photographs Photographs of unidentified relocation camp activities and
people.
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/24 | 165 | Two men and a woman walking outside the Memorial
Stadium of the University of Nebraska |
Between 1940 and 1950? |
1/24 | 166 | Two women and a man seated outside
building |
Between 1940 and 1950? |
1/24 | 167 | Automobiles lined up some with packages on
back |
Between 1940 and 1950? |
1/24 | 168 | Japanese women reading from book to class of
Japanese men |
Between 1940 and 1950? |
1/24 | 169 | Families standing in line and being served food
probably at cafeteria |
Between 1940 and 1950? |
1/24 | 170 |
Man and woman dancing at the Thanksgiving Day
Harvest Festival at Camp #2 in Rivers, Arizona Francis Stewart (photographer)
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November 26, 1942 |
1/24 | 171 | Man seated at table reading with surrounding
housewares including a potted onion and Japanese painting |
Between 1940 and 1950? |
1/24 | 172 | Men seated playing a board game |
Between 1940 and 1950? |
1/24 | 173 | Japanese soldier in front of a sign reading "Nisei
Americans Security Tomorrow" |
Between 1940 and 1950? |
1/24 | 174 | Japanese soldiers probably on a tour bus passing by
a cathedral |
Between 1940 and 1950? |
Exhibits Photographs of museum exhibit materials and information. These
photographs are for reference use only and can not be reproduced.
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/23 | 175 | Photograph of map showing distribution of Nisei
students in colleges and universities outside restricted areas in
1943 |
Between 1950 and 1960? |
1/23 | 176 | Photograph of map showing Nisei student distribution
in institutions of higher learning by state from July 1942- July
1946 |
Between 1950 and 1960? |
1/23 | 177 | Photograph of map showing location assembly and
relocation centers |
Between 1950 and 1960? |
1/23 | 178 | Photograph of a graph showing Japanese population on
the Pacific Coast in 1940 |
Between 1950 and 1960? |
1/23 | 179 | Exhibit display board titled "Going to Court" with
information on Minoru Yasu, Gordon Hirabayashi, Fred Korematsu and Mitsuye
Endo Verso has stamp for the Smithsonian Institution, Washington
D.C.
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Between 1950 and 1960? |
1/23 | 180 | Photograph of an illustration of woman leaving a
camp |
Between 1950 and 1960? |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Japanese American college students--Washington (State)--Seattle--Photographs
- Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)
Personal Names
- Hirabayashi family--Photographs
- Hirabayashi, Gordon K.--Photographs
Corporate Names
- University of Washington--Students--Photographs