Title:

[Ayako Tomooka family photographs]

Creator/Contributor:

Tomooka family, creator, creator.

Snapshot and portrait photographs pertaining to Ayako Tomooka Fujii and her husband Tadao Fujii; Ayako's siblings Masataka and Fred Tomooka; Ayako's parents Toyokichi and Yone; other Tomooka family members, friends, associates and their Japanese-American milieus in both California and Arizona. Volume 1) "Ayako Tomooka Fujii": portraits and snapshots of Ayako taken at various points throughout her life; portraits of high school friends taken during senior year (1939) at Santa Maria High School; 25th (1964) and 50th (1989) reunion programs for Santa Maria H.S.; family snapshots; school records, cards, correspondence and other personal papers. Volume 2) "Gila River Relocation Center": exterior views of various buildings of the internment camp, and other buildings in Rivers, Ariz.; scenes depicting internees in a dining hall and at various locations in the camp and during leisure outings to nearby locations; some views of family and friends taken in the immediate years following the war; a few papers pertaining to Ayako's vocational training during internment; later photographs. Volume 3) "Tadao Fujii, Masataka's family, Inouye family": Portraits and snapshots depicting "Tad" Fujii as a young man, during his military service in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and later in life; portraits and snapshots of multiple generations of the families of Ayako's siblings Masataka and perhaps Fred; and photographs of Inouye family members. Volume 4) "Tad and Ayako": snapshots, portraits and miscellaneous papers pertaining to Ayako and Tad, including some that document their wedding, honeymoon and early family; miscellaneous papers including greeting cards, gift lists, wedding announcement clippings and telegrams. Volume 5. "Mom, Pop, family, relatives, friends, pre-war, memorials, etc.": portraits and snapshots of multiple generations of Tomooka family members, taken from throughout the 20th century; portraits and snapshots of friends; miscellaneous papers; includes a few scenes of Ayako's brother Fred Tomooka carrying the Olympic torch in 1996. Volume 6) Untitled: snapshots of a family trip to Alaska in 2001, with associated papers. Collection also includes a small group of letters written in Latvian, from the 1930s, the relationship of which to the remainder of the collection is undetermined.

Date:

1915 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca -- n-us-az

Japanese Americans -- California -- Photographs

Japanese Americans -- Arizona -- Photographs

Japanese American families -- California -- Photographs

Japanese American families -- Arizona -- Photographs

Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945

World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans

World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Japanese American

Japanese American farmers -- California -- Photographs

Américains d'origine japonaise -- Californie -- Photographies

Américains d'origine japonaise -- Arizona -- Photographies

Familles américaines d'origine japonaise -- Californie -- Photographies

Familles américaines d'origine japonaise -- Arizona -- Photographies

Américains d'origine japonaise -- Relogement et internement forcés, 1942-1945

Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Américains d'origine japonaise

Japanese American families

Japanese American farmers

Japanese Americans

Alaska -- Photographs

Alaska -- Photographies

Alaska

Arizona

California

France

Gila River Relocation Center -- Photographs

Gila River Relocation Center

Tomooka family -- Archives

Tomooka family -- Photographs

Title devised by cataloger.

Numerous photographers.

Most contents received in protective plastic sleeves and grouped thematically in generic binders. Original binder groupings (assigned "volume" numbers by library staff) and their titles have been preserved, as have many sleeves; original binders have been discarded and replaced by folders.

Also includes 21 copy negatives housed in 4 sleeves, for which corresponding prints are present.

Purchase from Daniel / Oliver ; 2022.

Ayako Tomooka (b. 1920, San Luis Obispo County, Calif.; d. 2013, Arizona): parents emigrated from Kumamoto, Japan and settled in Santa Maria in early 1900s; raised in family of farmers in San Luis Obispo County, Calif.; during World War II, interned in Gila River Relocation Center (near Rivers, Arizona); married Tadao "Tad" Fujii (b. 1923, Glendale, Ariz.) in Maricopa County, Arizona in 1950.

Ayako Tomooka family photographs, BANC PIC 2022.105, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

graphic

portraits.

Photographs

Portraits

Photograph albums.

Portraits.

Portraits.

photoprint

approximately 1,500 photographs in 2 boxes : gelatin silver and color prints ; sheets various sizes

mul

Origin:

California