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Title: Shuko Iwasaki Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1917-1942
Collection number: 1377
Creator:
Iwasaki, Shuko, 1871-1947
Extent:
2 boxes (1 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Iwasaki was born in 1871 in Japan. A native of Tottori, he arrived in the United States in 1903. He had a small business in
Southern California and was interned in a relocation camp after the outbreak of World War II. Collection consists of 15 volumes
of Shuko Iwasaki's personal diaries for the years 1917, 1918, 1920-28, 1931 and 1940-42. The diaries relate to family activities
and include household accounts, often detailed, and political or social events are in the form of clippings inserted into
the volumes. Collection is in Japanese.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including
copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds
the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Additional Physical Form Available
A copy of the original version of this online finding aid is available at the UCLA Department of Special Collections for in-house
consultation and may be obtained for a fee. Please contact:
- Public Services Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Tetsuo Iwasaki, 1982.
This online finding aid has been funded in part by a grant from the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA).
[Identification of item], Shuko Iwasaki Papers (Collection 1377). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
1720728
Iwasaki was born in 1871 in Japan; a native of Tottori, he arrived in the United States in 1903; he had a small business in
Southern California; interned in a relocation camp after the outbreak of World War II; he died in 1947.
Collection consists of 15 volumes of personal diaries (in Japanese), for the years 1917, 1918, 1920-28, 1931, 1940-42, of
Shuko Iwasaki. The diaries relate to family activities and include household accounts, often detailed. The diary for 1942
has some entries about evacuation but entries mentioning political or social events are in the form of clippings inserted
into the volumes.
Collection is in Japanese.
Collection arranged chronologically by diary.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Iwasaki, Shuko, 1871-1947--Archives.
Japanese Americans--California, Southern--Archival resources.
Diaries.
Title: Japanese American Research Project Collection of Material about Japanese in the United States
Identifier/Call Number: (Collection 2010).
Available at the Department of Special Collections, UCLA.
Title: Japanese American Research Project -
Fading Footsteps of the Issei
Identifier/Call Number: (Collection 2010).
Available at the Department of Special Collections, UCLA.