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Walerga oral histories collection
MS0174
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Contributing Institution:
Center for Sacramento History
Title: Walerga oral histories collection
Identifier/Call Number: MS0174
Physical Description:
3 Linear Feet
(14 boxes, photographs)
Date (inclusive): 1942-1980
Date (bulk): 1979-1980
The collection is open for research.
All requests to publish or quote from private collections held by the Center for Sacramento History (CSH) must be submitted
in writing to csh@cityofsacramento.org. Permission for publication is given on behalf of CSH as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the patron.
No permission is necessary to publish or quote from public records.
The photographs in this collection were copied from originals owned by Rev. Yasunobu Kojima. No copies of these photographs
are to be made; they are for reference only.
[Identification of item], Walerga oral histories collection, MS0174, Center for Sacramento History.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred from the City of Sacramento Museum and History Division in 1979 (accession 1979/107).
The Center for Sacramento History holds the Issei Oral History Collection, MS0173, which was also conducted by the Issei Oral
History Project Inc.
The Walerga Oral History Project was a joint project between the Center for Sacramento History (then known as the Sacramento
Museum and History Division) and the Issei Oral History Project Inc. Oral histories were conducted in 1979 and 1980 by IOHP
with people who were interned or worked at the Walerga Assembly Center during the period of Japanese incarceration during
World War II. Work on the project was coordinated by the Rev. Heihachiro Takarabe and former CSH director James Henley. Most
interviews are in English, with some in Japanese.
The collection consists of cassette tape recordings of oral histories, a small number of typed transcripts of the oral histories,
administrative records related to the project, and photographs. Digital copies have been made of all of the oral histories,
and these are available on the Center's Internet Archive page.
The collection is arranged into two series:
- Series 1. Oral history recordings
- Series 2. Administrative records and photographs