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Shigezo and Sonoko Iwata papers

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Held at: Historical Society of Pennsylvania [Contact Us]1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19107

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
MSS053
Repository:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Extent:
0.6 linear feet (0.6 linear feet, 2 boxes)
Language:
Japanese
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate cited item or series here], Shigezo and Sonoko Iwata papers (Collection MSS053), The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Date:
1942-1991
Creator:
Iwata, Shigezo and Sonoko
Abstract:
Shigezo Iwata was born in Japan and immigrated to the United States in 1924. Sonoko U. Iwata was born in Los Angeles. The couple made their home in Thermal, California where they farmed and Shigezo was secretary of the Thermal Farmers' Cooperative Association. Separated in the initial part of World War II when Shigezo was arrested and detained by the FBI at the Lordsburg Internment Camp (New Mexico), the Iwatas were reunited in 1943 at the Colorado River Relocation Center near Poston, Arizona. The collection contains letters between the Iwatas and their friends detailing life in the relocation center and the internment camp. There are also personal documents and biographical materials.

The Iwata Papers were donated by Mrs. Sonoko U. Iwata to the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies in 1973, 1985, and 1987.

At the Historical Society of Pennsylvania:

Fujita family papers, 1942-1944 (SC209) http://www2.hsp.org/collections/Balch%20manuscript_guide/html/japanese_smcoll.html

Inouye and Michiyu Saburo papers, 1888-1985 (SC163) http://www2.hsp.org/collections/Balch%20manuscript_guide/html/japanese_smcoll.html

Yosuke E. Nakano papers, 1906-1953 (SC164) http://www2.hsp.org/collections/Balch%20manuscript_guide/html/japanese_smcoll.html#NakanoYosuki

Yabuki family papers, 1943-1983 (SC232) http://www2.hsp.org/collections/Balch%20manuscript_guide/html/japanese_smcoll.html#YabukiFamily

Horikawa family papers, 1943-1944, n.d. (SC266) http://www2.hsp.org/collections/Balch%20manuscript_guide/html/horikawa.html

Sumiko Kobayashi papers, 1941-1989 (MSS73) http://www2.hsp.org/collections/Balch%20manuscript_guide/html/kobayashi_sumiko.html

Susumu Kobayashi papers, 1892-1975 (MSS71) http://www2.hsp.org/collections/Balch%20manuscript_guide/html/kobayashi_susumu.html

Nakai family photographs, 1940-1950 (PG165) Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians records (microfilm), 1942-1983.

At other institutions:

Japanese Americans records at the National Archives and Records Administration. http://www.archives.gov/research/japanese-americans/

War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945 at the Bancroft Library at University of California, Berkeley. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf596nb4h0/

Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives (JARDA) created by the University of California. http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/jarda/

Collections at the Hirasaki National Resource Center at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, California. http://www.janm.org/nrc/

The Japanese American Archival Collection at California State University, Sacramento. http://library.csus.edu/collections/jaac/

Subject

Publisher
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Finding Aid Author
Finding aid prepared by Sarah Newhouse
Finding Aid Date
2012 March 13
Sponsor
This finding aid was created during the Digital Center for Americana Project Phase II, which was funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Richard Lounsbery Foundation.
Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Collection Inventory

1942 March 15, 17.
Box 1 Folder 2
1942 March 16.
Box 1 Folder 3
1942 March 17.
Box 1 Folder 4
1942 March 19.
Box 1 Folder 5
1942 March 22.
Box 1 Folder 6
1942 March 26.
Box 1 Folder 7
1942 March 27.
Box 1 Folder 8
1942 March 28.
Box 1 Folder 9
1942 March 30.
Box 1 Folder 10
1942 March 30, 1942 April 9, 13, 23.
Box 1 Folder 11
1942 April 1.
Box 1 Folder 12
1942 April 2.
Box 1 Folder 13
1942 April 5.
Box 1 Folder 14
1942 April 7.
Box 1 Folder 15
1942 April 8.
Box 1 Folder 16
1942 April 9.
Box 1 Folder 17
1942 April 10.
Box 1 Folder 18
Empty envelope, 1942 April 14.
Box 1 Folder 19
1942 April 17.
Box 1 Folder 20
1942 April 18, 19.
Box 1 Folder 21
1942 April 20.
Box 1 Folder 22
1942 April 21.
Box 1 Folder 23
1942 April 22.
Box 1 Folder 24
1942 April 23.
Box 1 Folder 25
1942 April 27.
Box 1 Folder 26
1942 April 28.
Box 1 Folder 27
1942 April 29.
Box 1 Folder 28
1942 May 1.
Box 1 Folder 29
1942 May 4.
Box 1 Folder 30
1942 May 6.
Box 1 Folder 31
1942 May 8, 1942 June 18.
Box 1 Folder 32
1942 May 9.
Box 1 Folder 33
1942 May 25.
Box 1 Folder 34
1942 May 27.
Box 1 Folder 35
1942 May 28.
Box 1 Folder 36
1942 May 30.
Box 1 Folder 37
1942 June 1.
Box 1 Folder 38
1942 June 3, 5.
Box 1 Folder 39
1942 June 6.
Box 1 Folder 40
1942 June 10.
Box 1 Folder 41
1942 June 18.
Box 1 Folder 42
1942 June 19.
Box 1 Folder 43
1942 June 24.
Box 1 Folder 44
1942 June 25.
Box 1 Folder 45
1942 June 28.
Box 1 Folder 46
1942 June 29, 30.
Box 1 Folder 47
1942 July 1, 2.
Box 1 Folder 48
1942 July 13.
Box 1 Folder 49
1942 July 14.
Box 1 Folder 50
1942 July 16.
Box 1 Folder 51
1942 July 19.
Box 1 Folder 52
1942 July 21, 22.
Box 1 Folder 53
1942 July 23.
Box 1 Folder 54
1942 July 25.
Box 1 Folder 55
1942 July 26.
Box 1 Folder 56
1942 July 29, 31.
Box 1 Folder 57
1942 August 4.
Box 1 Folder 58
1942 August 9.
Box 1 Folder 59
1942 August 12, 17.
Box 1 Folder 60
1942 August 14, 15.
Box 1 Folder 61
1942 August 22, 28, 29.
Box 1 Folder 62
1942 August 30.
Box 1 Folder 63
1942 September 2, 3.
Box 1 Folder 64
1942 September 4, 5, 7, 11, 17, 21.
Box 1 Folder 65
1942 September 22.
Box 1 Folder 66
1942 October 3.
Box 1 Folder 67
1942 October 5.
Box 1 Folder 68
1942 October 14.
Box 1 Folder 69
1942 October 15, 23.
Box 1 Folder 70
1942 October 26.
Box 1 Folder 71
1942 November 4.
Box 1 Folder 72
1942 November 15.
Box 1 Folder 73
1942 December 2.
Box 1 Folder 74
1942 December 5.
Box 1 Folder 75
1943 January 1.
Box 2 Folder 1
1943 January 18.
Box 2 Folder 2
1943 February 3.
Box 2 Folder 3
1943 February 9.
Box 2 Folder 4
1943 February 19.
Box 2 Folder 5
1943 March 3.
Box 2 Folder 6
1943 March 5.
Box 2 Folder 7
1943 March 27.
Box 2 Folder 8
1943 April 5.
Box 2 Folder 9
1943 April 15.
Box 2 Folder 10
1943 April 26.
Box 2 Folder 11
1943 July 2.
Box 2 Folder 12
To and from friends and associates, 1942-1945.
Box 2 Folder 13
To and from friends and associates, 1942-1945, undated.
Box 2 Folder 14
To and from friends and associates, 1943-1945.
Box 2 Folder 15
Correspondence regarding Shigezo Iwata's release to Poston Evacuation Center, 1942.
Box 2 Folder 16

Shigezo Iwata: United States alien registration certificate, 1942.
Box 2 Folder 17
Shigezo Iwata: English class notebook, c. 1942.
Box 2 Folder 18
List of internees in Barrack 19 at the Santa Fe, New Mexico internment camp, c. 1942.
Box 2 Folder 19
Shigezo Iwata: Diary, 1943.
Box 2 Folder 20
Shigezo Iwata: Transfer and release papers, 1943, 1945.
Box 2 Folder 21
Masahiro Iwata: Report cards and medical documents, c. 1942, 1944-1946.
Box 2 Folder 22
Shigezo Iwata: Compromise settlement of evacuation claim, 1952.
Box 2 Folder 23
Shigezo Iwata: Loss of Japanese citizenship certificate, 1953.
Box 2 Folder 24
Shigezo Iwata: United States naturalization certificate, 1953.
Box 2 Folder 25
Biographical materials, 1987.
Box 1 Folder 1
List of internees at Camp 3, Company 9, Barracks 1-8 in Lordsburg, New Mexico, undated.
Box 2 Folder 26
Shigezo Iwata: Schedule of sports events at Lordsburg, New Mexico internment camp, undated.
Box 2 Folder 27

Shigezo Iwata: Birth certificate, 1900.
Box 2 Folder 28
Shigezo Iwata: Diplomas and certificates from Waseda University, 1923-1924.
Box 2 Folder 29
Newspaper clippings of 15-part series on Japanese Americans from the Rafu Shimpo, 1972.
Box 2 Folder 30
School report about the Iwata family and internment camps written by Marsha Iwata, 1991.
Box 2 Folder 31
Regulations regarding internee correspondence, undated.
Box 2 Folder 32
War ration books, undated.
Box 2 Folder 33
Photographs, 1912-1957, undated.
Box 6 Folder 1

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