Jiro Onuma papers
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Title: Jiro Onuma papers
Dates: 1904-1990
Collection Number: 2000-27
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 2 manuscript boxes
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Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: This collection is from the estate of Jiro Onuma, a Japanese-American man. It includes photographs of Onuma (1904-1990), his
friends, and family in the U.S. and in Japan and, notably, a photo of a group of Japanese-Americans (Jiro in the front row)
taken in front of a dining hall at the World War II Japanese internment camp in Topaz, Utah. There are also personal papers
and materials related to the pre-WWII physical culture movement.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item]. Jiro Onuma papers. Collection Number: 2000-27. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Richard Steger on April 11, 2000. The collection file includes "From the Past, A Gay Life," a biography of Onuma,
by Ken Kaji.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection is from the estate of Jiro Onuma, a Japanese-American man. It includes photographs of Onuma (1904-1990), his
friends, and family in the U.S. and in Japan and, notably, a photo of a group of Japanese-Americans (Jiro in the front row)
taken in front of a dining hall at the World War II Japanese internment camp in Topaz, Utah. There are also personal papers,
including passports, Onuma’s naturalization papers, his will, a few fragile letters in Japanese and a few sketches. The collection
also includes materials related to the pre-WWII physical culture movement, and much of those focus on one particular star
of the 1920s and 1930s, Earle Liederman. There are also mementos from Onuma’s life, including his briefcase, cufflinks, pens
and a commemorative plate with his photo. GSSO linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000374; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008488;
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_007658; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008194; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008536
Gay men
Photography
Asian Americans
World War, 1939-1945