Japanese American Relocatin Digital Archives (JARDA) . . .

[OneBlueSky]

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana

http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/jarda/

About the Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives (JARDA)

JARDA contains thousands of Japanese American internment primary source materials:

- Personal diaries, letters, photographs, and drawings
- US War Relocation Authority materials, including camp newsletters, final reports, photographs, and other documents relating to the day-to-day administration of the camps
- Personal histories documenting the lives of the people who lived in the camps as well as the administrators who created and worked in the camps

A Single Point of Access
Historically, these heavily requested materials for research, classroom study, and other uses have been difficult to access physically because they are widely scattered in a number of different collections. The JARDA project was created to remedy this problem. This single point of entry provides access to the rich resources of many diverse California archives, libraries, oral history programs, and museums.

History of JARDA
Beginning in 1988, the University of California began digitizing thousands of images and documents, providing a single, easy-to-use entry point for anyone interested in this material. This project was supported by the US Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the state librarian.

Curators, archivists, and librarians from 10 institutions selected a broad range of primary sources from their extensive collections. These were digitized and placed in JARDA. The web site launched in November 2000.

http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/jarda/

[Bonobo]

1. Wow. Thank you.

Beautiful and haunting images.

Shows what patriotism will do for you. Blind patriotism.

[Kickin_Donkey]

4. What do you mean ... blind patriotism?

The owner of the store is trying to show his fellow Americans that he is an American and he shouldn't be thrown into a concentration camp because of his ethnicity.

It has far less to do with patriotism than to simply state who he is and thus imply the injustice or the evacuation.

[Bonobo]

5. Blind Patriotism allowed this to happen.

THAT is what I mean.

[Kickin_Donkey]

6. Thank you for the clarification ...

I get extremely touchy on this subject.

My dad is one of the boys in the bottom photo ...

http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt709nb27w/?order=57&brand=calisphere

[Bonobo]

7. My wife and kids are Japanese.

I also get very touchy on the subject.

Gomen, ne.

[winggirle]

2. OMG...

I am so upset...right when I get out of school that's when I need to be back in school. I was a strong advocate for Japanese art at CAL STATE UNIV. San Bernardino but they displayed more Latino Art which I'm not mad at but I'm truly like really...really...there needs to be Japanese art displayed as well. If the UC systems incorporate it...then CAL STATE systems will soon follow...


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[sentelle]

3. In my neck of the woods

We have our historical records (and have been working on preserving the history) of those who were interned.

Out here (Bainbridge Island, WA), there is a sizable amount of information, and even a dock and park that have been preserved, as being one of the first places where the Japanese-Americans were removed, and relocated from (typically from BI, to Puyallup, and then to Mindanoka ID).

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. My brother in law was a guard at one of the camps.

He, literally, begged to be transferred because he went to school with some of the internees. He was sent to Idaho to guard German and Italian POWs who worked on the farms there.

As a side note: He said the Germans (mostly Afrika Korps) were a surly and sour bunch and very arrogant. The Italians were delighted to be out of the war and even more delighted with the frisky American farm girls who they worked in the fields with.

[Solly Mack]

9. K&R