Eddie S. Muraoka Collection
Scope and Contents
The collection contains three scrapbooks of newspaper clippings compiled by Eddie S. Muraoka, a Japanese American incarceree. These materials document the Manzanar incarceration camp from 1942 to 1944, and overall Japanese American incarceration and American concentration camps during World War II. The clippings are from American concentration camp newspapers including the Heart Mountain Sentinel and the Manzanar Free Press, as well as other California Newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Daily News, Los Angeles Examiner, and the Pacific Citizen. The collection also contains loose scrapbook pages with additional newspaper clippings, and full issues from Japanese American and Asian Pacific American publications.
Content Warning: The historical newspapers and clippings in this collection include euphemistic terms and racist language that were wrongfully used to describe Japanese Americans during and after the World War II period.
Dates
- Creation: 1942-2005
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for research use.
Conditions Governing Use:
Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of this collection has not been transferred to California State University, Northridge. Copyright status for other materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Biographical Information:
Eddie S. Muraoka was incarcerated at Manzanar incarceration camp in California's Owens Valley from 1942-1945. His address in the Manzanar incarceration camp was 14-4-1.
Full Extent
3.00 Linear Feet (5 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Japanese
Abstract
Eddie S. Muraoka was incarcerated at Manzanar incarceration camp in California's Owens Valley from 1942-1945. The collection includes three scrapbooks of newspaper clippings documenting Japanese American incarceration during World War II. The collection also contains a selection of full issues of Japanese American and Asian Pacific American newspapers.
Electronic Format:
Digital reproductions of selected items in this collection are available electronically as a part of the CSU Japanese American Digitization Project.
Processing Information
The collection was processed in 2012. This finding aid was revised in 2026 to address outdated and harmful descriptive language. References to Japanese American “relocation,” “evacuation,” and “internment” during World War II were removed and replaced with community recommended/currently accepted terminology in 2026, such as “Japanese American incarceration.”
Genre / Form
- Title
- Guide to the Eddie S. Muraoka Collection
- Date
- 2012-03-29
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections & Archives Repository
University Library
California State University, Northridge
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Northridge CA 91330-8326 USA
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