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Guide to the Moriyuki Shimada Scrapbook, 1942-1945
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Title: Moriyuki Shimada scrapbook,
Date (inclusive): 1942-1945
Origination:
Shimada, Moriyuki
Extent: 1 scrapbook of 108 photographs
Repository:
Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles, California 90012
Abstract: Moriyuki Shimada was twenty-two years old when he and his family were forcibly removed from their home in Santa Clara, California
to the Heart Mountain Concentration Camp in Wyoming. Shimada created a scrapbook after the war with the photographs he had
taken and collected during his incarceration.
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research by appointment. Please contact the Japanese American National Museum's Manabi & Sumi Hirasaki
National Resource Center at (213) 830-5680 or hnrc@janm.org to schedule an appointment. The Resource Center hours are Tuesday
through Sunday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from materials in this collection must be submitted to the Hirasaki
National Resource Center at the Japanese American National Museum (hnrc@janm.org).
[Identification of item], Gift of Mori Shimada, Japanese American National Museum (Collection number).
Moriyuki Shimada (1920-2000) was twenty-two years old when he and his family were forcibly removed from their home in Santa
Clara, California to the Heart Mountain concentration camp in Wyoming.
The 108 photographs in this scrapbook consist of snapshots of friends, family, social and sporting events. The original scrapbook,
created after the war, was dismantled and the photographs removed for preservation purposes.