Abstract

The records of the California Flower Market, Inc. include photographs, photograph albums, manuscript materials, books, articles, ephemera, and audiovisual materials from the late 1800s to 2014, with the bulk covering the period 1910 to 1990. Together they tell the story of the California Flower Market, Inc. from its beginnings in 1912 when 54 Japanese American flower growers joined together as shareholders to create the organization.

Abstract Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary...

Abstract William J(ohn) Mountin (b. 14 Nov. 1901) was employed by the Statistical Branch of the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), under the Assistant Chief of Staff for Civil Affairs, Western Defense Command and Fourth Army. Established in March of 1942 by order of General John DeWitt, the WCCA oversaw the forced removal of roughly 120,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast, and administered detention camps called “temporary assembly centers.” In the late summer and fall of 1942, the...