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See also our Japanese Americans Internment page.
The Chinese in California, 1850-1925
"...illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California from 1850 to 1925 through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs, original art, cartoons and other illustrations; letters, excerpts from diaries, business records, and legal documents; as well as pamphlets, broadsides, speeches, sheet music, and other printed matter."
- American Memory, Library of Congress
The Golden Mountain: Asian Americans in the West
"Under Texts you will find examples of primary texts, such as the Chinese Exclusion Act and literary works, or secondary texts, such as critical essays or historical studies. Under Resources, you will find other resources, such as bibliographies and teaching materials. Under Links to Other Sites, you will find a collection of links to sites dealing with various issues in Asian-American history, such as WWII internment or immigration history. Finally, under Images, you will find both general collections which include some images of Asian-American history and direct links to pictures available online."
By Catherine Lavender, Department of History, College of Staten Island, The City University of New York
WRA Exhibit - Text of Executive Order No. 9066 - (dead link)
Order that led to the the internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans
Korean American Digital Archive - (dead link)
"...aimed at bringing disparate collections of materials--manuscripts, documents, photographs, oral histories--together in one searchable database. The initial collection of more than 11,000 pages of documents and over 1300 photographs will continue to grow as additional materials are identified for inclusion."
- University of Southern California Libraries
Library of Congress - American Memory
- Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
"In "Suffering under a Great Injustice": Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar, the Prints and Photographs Division at the Library of Congress presents for the first time side-by-side digital scans of both Adams's 242 original negatives and his 209 photographic prints (with the print on the left and the negative on the right), allowing viewers to see his darkroom technique and in particular how he cropped his prints."
Museum of the City of San Francisco
National Japanese American Historical Society
Nikkei Farmers in South King County [Washington] - (dead link)
Maintained by Russ Nakatsu
Nikkei Home Page - (dead link)
By R. Russell Nakatsu
Pacific Northwest Quarterly - (dead link)
"...is the leading scholarly journal devoted to the history and culture of the northwestern United States, Alaska, and western Canada."
Selected articles available online.
- Exile and Return of Seattle's Japanese - (dead link) (Winter 1998)
By Roger Daniels.
PBS - Becoming American: The Chinese Experience (March-April 2003)
A Bill Moyers Special
Programs Titles: Gold Mountain Dreams ; Between Two Worlds ; No Turning Back ; Personal Journeys.
Sections include: Portraits ; The Chinese Experience ; Eyewitness Accounts ; Timeline ; Resources ; Educational Guide.
The Promise of Gold Mountain: Tucson's Chinese Heritage - (dead link)
"Using text and photographs, this exhibit traces the history of Chinese-Americans in Tucson, including short biographies of some prominent members of Tucson's Chinese-American community."
University of Arizona
University of Hawai'i at Manoa - Digital Archive Collection
- Hawaii War Records Depository (HWRD) - (dead link)
"...was created in 1943 to document the impact of the war upon Hawai'i and its populace. HWRD showcases approximately 1,325 photographs of which 300 are clearly identified from Hawaii's two major English newspapers and have been scanned with permission."
- AJA (Americans of Japanese Ancestry) Veterans - (dead link)
White River Valley Museum - (dead link)
"The museum houses South King County's largest collection of artifactual and archival material regarding the Nikkei experience, including: documents, photographs, newspapers from Auburn and Kent, news clippings, research papers, family files, taped interviews, and several books in a non-lending library. During 1997, the museum is compiling a narrative history of Japanese Americans in the White River Valley."
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