Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Muranishi, William
- Abstract:
- A small collection of photographs that belonged to William Muranishi, a young Japanese-American man from Isleton, California who was incarcerated at the Gila River War Relocation Center in Arizona during World War II.
- Extent:
- 21 items
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], William Muranishi Photograph Collection, MC327, Archives and Special Collections, UC Davis Library, University of California, Davis.
Background
- Scope and content:
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A small collection of photographs that belonged to William Muranishi, a young Japanese-American man from Isleton, California who was incarcerated at the Gila River War Relocation Center in Arizona during World War II. Included are at least a dozen photographs taken at the internment camp, showing young men posing singly or in groups in front of the spare prison buildings or the camp water tower; six of these images have inscriptions on the front all "to Bill" from other young men at the camp. There are a number of other photographs belonging to Muranishi, some of which may have been taken at the camp - a small snapshot of a baseball team, a studio portrait stamped "Hanasong Studio," and a handful of portraits, all with ink inscriptions on the fronts, three adding detailed inscriptions in Japanese on the versos. Finally, there is a typed note measuring 5 x 5 inches that reads "Mr. Bill Muranishi Just a little token of appreciation from the Deltens Jr., wishing you the best of luck through relocation...Best of luck...Deltens Jr." The note also contains a list of Japanese-American names, possibly other inmates at the camp.
[Description provided by William Reese Co.]
- Acquisition information:
- Purchased from William Reese Co., 2021.
- Processing information:
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Liz Phillips created this finding aid with information supplied by William Reese Co.
Liz Phillips created this finding aid with information supplied by William Reese Co.
- Physical location:
- Researchers should contact Archives and Special Collections to request collections, as many are stored offsite.
- Physical facet:
- Twenty-one black-and-white photographs (one of them a duplicate print) measuring between 2 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches and 6 x 3 3/4 inches.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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All applicable copyrights for the collection are protected under chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code. Requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California as the owner of the physical items. It is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], William Muranishi Photograph Collection, MC327, Archives and Special Collections, UC Davis Library, University of California, Davis.
- Location of this collection:
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University of California, Davis, Special Collections, UC Davis Library100 NW QuadDavis, CA 95616-5292, US
- Contact:
- (530) 752-1621