Makiko Ichiyasu photograph albums of California
Scope and Contents
Photograph albums compiled by Makiko Ichiyasu of life in southern California, 1922-1945. Depicted are Ichiyasu, relatives, and acquaintances, as well as Young Women’s Christian Association events. Identified locations include San Francisco, Los Angeles, Watsonville, Sonora, and Russian River. One album documents Ichiyasu’s travels to Hawaii with YWCA acquaintances (Box 3); another documents her travels with friends to Arizona and Utah (Box 5). Multiple photographs appear to have been taken in Japan. Photographs in the collection do not appear to document Ichiyasu's incarceration during World War II.
Dates
- 1922-1945
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Access
The Makiko Ichiyasu Photograph Albums of California is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from William Reese Co. on the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 2017.
Extent
5 Volumes
Language of Materials
English
Japanese
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
Photograph albums compiled by Makiko Ichiyasu of life in southern California, 1922-1945. Depicted are Ichiyasu, relatives, and acquaintances, as well as Young Women’s Christian Association events. Identified locations include San Francisco, Los Angeles, Watsonville, Sonora, and Russian River. One album documents Ichiyasu’s travels to Hawaii with YWCA acquaintances (Box 3); another documents her travels with friends to Arizona and Utah (Box 5). Multiple photographs appear to have been taken in Japan. Photographs in the collection do not appear to document Ichiyasu's incarceration during World War II.
Biographical / Historical
Makiko “Maki” Ichiyasu (1912-1970) was born in Alameda, California, to Hirotaka Ichiyasu and Tsuya Mizote. She studied economic sociology at Mills College in Oakland, California, and was working for the Japanese Young Women’s Christian Association in Los Angeles by the 1930s. She was incarcerated during World War II and relocated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after the war. Ichiyasu later lived in Hawaii and died in Santa Cruz, California.
Processing Information
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- Arizona -- Pictorial works
- California -- Pictorial works
- California -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Gelatin silver prints
- Hawaii -- Pictorial works
- Japan -- Pictorial works
- Japanese American women -- California -- Pictorial works
- Japanese American women -- Hawaii -- Pictorial works
- Japanese American women -- Portraits
- Japanese Americans -- California -- Pictorial works
- Japanese Americans -- Hawaii -- Pictorial works
- Japanese Americans -- Portraits
- Japanese Young Women's Christian Association
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
- Photograph albums
- Photographic prints
- Photographs
- Russian River (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
- Sonora (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
- Tourists -- West (U.S.) -- Pictorial works
- Utah -- Pictorial works
- Watsonville (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
- Women -- West (U.S.) -- Pictorial works
- Young Women's Christian associations -- California -- Pictorial works
Source
- Title
- Guide to the Makiko Ichiyasu Photograph Albums of California
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Sarah Lerner
- Date
- July 2021
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Opening Hours
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