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Research Guides

Japanese Americans in the Pacific Northwest: Postwar Era

A guide to select primary materials relating to the Japanese-American community in the Pacific Northwest available in Special Collections.

Image Collections

 

Image: Japanese American Seafair royalty posing in front of the Space Needle, 1961

Some of the images in these collections have been digitized and are linked from the collection guide. Other digitized images relating to the Nikkei community can be found in the UW Digital Collections.

Other Material Available in the UW Libraries

Selected Archival Collections: Personal Papers

These collections of personal papers contain substanial material on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Additional collections can be found by searching the online collection guides database.

Selected Archival Collections: Organizational Records

These collections of organizational records contain substanial material on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Additional collections can be found by searching the online collection guides.