Los Angeles [i.e., Japan]: Shin Nichi-Bei Shinbunsha, 1961. 23,1431,19pp., profusely illustrated with photographs, including several full-page plates after the text. Publisher's limp blue cloth, gilt spine titles. Original cardboard slipcase with black titles. Minor rubbing to spine. A gargantuan Japanese American directory and almanac published by the New Japanese American..... More
Los Angeles: 1936. Eleven issues, each 8pp. Large newspaper folio. Folded, with some wear and minor loss along fold lines. Light chipping at edges. Somewhat browned, more heavily along folds and at edges. Rafu Shimpo, the Los Angeles Japanese Daily News, is one of the oldest Japanese language newspapers in..... More
![Application for Permission to Renounce United States Nationality [with Unused Cover Letter]....](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3153.JPG?v=1652811972)
Newell, Ca. November, 1944. [1],3pp., mimeographed forms printed on rectos only. Minor wear, small paper clip rust stains to top edges. A cover letter datelined "November [blank], 1944 Newell, California" intended to accompany the attached blank version of the actual application, intended for use by Tule Lake internees wishing to..... More
Camp Rohwer, Ar. 1942-43. Seven partially-printed report cards, completed in manuscript, together with a partially-printed "Assignment Card for Free Text Books," also completed in ink manuscript. Minor wear and some toning. A collection of documents specially printed by the United States government for the administrators and teachers instructing Japanese American..... More
![The Japanese in Our Midst [cover title]. Japanese Americana](/pictures/thumb/McBRB2826_01.JPG?v=1652380629)
[Denver: Colorado Council of Churches, 1942]. 8pp. (including textblock numbered 3-7 plus wrappers). Original printed self wrappers, stapled. Minor edge wear and some soiling to wrappers, short split at top of spine. Vertical crease throughout. A rare informational pamphlet issued by the Colorado Council of Churches, treating with the issues..... More
Rivers, Az. July 20, 1943. [44]pp., plus three folding plates. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Minor discoloration and light soiling to wrappers. Internally clean. A scarce program memorializing the first year in the lives of Japanese American internees at the Gila River Relocation Center in Rivers, Arizona. The program includes a...... More
Washington DC: 1943. Lithographic poster, printed in five colors, 11.25 x 20.5 inches. Minor edge wear, some toning to verso edges. Small typed note on verso, reading "GILA RIVER RELOCATION CENTER Rivers, Arizona War Bond Drive Ending Oct. 15, 1943." A unique example of a scarce World War II propaganda..... More