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Guide to the Muramoto (Walter) Collection
1942-1945
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Title: Walter Muramoto Collection
Date: 1942-1945
Creator:
Muramoto, Walter
Repository:
Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Language:
English.
Gift of Walter Muramoto family.
Collection is open for research by appointment. Please contact the Japanese American National Museum's Collections Management
and Access Unit at (213) 830-5615 or collections@janm.org to schedule an appointment.
All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from materials in this collection must be submitted to the Collections
Management and Access Unit at the Japanese American National Museum (collections@janm.org).
[Identification of item], Gift of Walter Muramoto Family, Japanese American National Museum, 97.292
Walter Wataru Muramoto (1915-1984) was an amateur photographer from Redondo Beach, California. Muramoto, a nisei, learned
about taking pictures from his father, a photographer who specialized in school photos in Japan. While incarcerated at Rohwer
concentration camp with his family from 1942 to 1945, Muramoto became known as the unofficial camp photographer. He was often
asked to photograph events and people in camp with the camera he had borrowed from a Buddhist reverend. The collection consists
of over 300 loose prints that document daily life at the Arkansas camp.
361 black and white photographs of daily life in camp in Rohwer, Arkansas.