Miyagawa family photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: 2000.001P
Scope and Contents
Photographs of mostly unidentified individuals and families from the early 1900s.
Dates
- circa 1910s-1920s
Biographical / Historical
Hirouki (Donks) Miyagawa (d. 1999) was eleven years old and suffering from tuberculosis in Seattle, Washington when World War II began. For the duration of the war, he was held in a sanitorium in Pasadena, California while his parents and siblings were held in an internment camp. His parents gave him their family photographs for safekeeping during the war. Hirouki settled in Chicago after the war concluded and worked at LaSalle Photo.
Source: Miyagawa, Hirouki
Extent
11 folders
Language of Materials
English
Japanese
General
Stacks 2, 8D
- Title
- Miyagawa family photograph collection
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the JASC Legacy Center Repository