Overview
Autograph album Shizuko Iwazawa compiled while incarcerated at the Crystal City Internment Camp, a World War II concentration camp for Japanese Americans near Crystal City, Texas, as well as birth announcements, a date book, an address book, a Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company identification card and service certificate, and photographs documenting her life following the end of the war.
Dates
- Creation: 1945-1966
Creator
- Iwazawa, Shizuko, 1929- (Person)
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Shizuko Iwazawa as well as copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.
Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
Extent
.21 linear feet ((1/2 file box) plus 2 photograph folders)The papers of Shizuko Iwazawa include an autograph album Iwazawa compiled while incarcerated at the Crystal City Internment Camp, a World War II concentration camp for Japanese Americans near Crystal City, Texas. Entries in the album are written in English, Japanese, and Spanish, and one entry includes a drawing of the camp with the title "Alien Internment Camp, Crystal City, Texas, Nov. 20th 1945." Other materials in the collection document Iwazawa's life in the two decades following the end of the war and include correspondence, including birth announcements for several of Iwazawa's nieces and nephews; a date book; an address and note book; an identification card and service certificate documenting her employment at The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company; and photographs, many of which document trips to Japan to visit family. Most of the photographs in this collection are or will be digitized and available online. Folders are arranged alphabetically.
BIOGRAPHY
Shizuko Iwazawa, daughter of Masaichi and Kiyo Iwazawa, was born August 3, 1929, in Hiroshima, Japan. She immigrated to the United States with her family in December 1929, settling in Hanford, and later Delano, California. In May 1942, Iwazawa, known as Sally, and her family were incarcerated at the Poston Relocation Center, a World War II concentration camp for Japanese Americans. In May 1943, they were transferred to Crystal City Internment Camp near Crystal City, Texas. Following the war, Iwazawa worked for The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. In 1971, she married Akira Matsubara.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession number: 2023-M178
The papers of Shizuko Iwazawa were acquired by the Schlesinger Library from McBride Rare Books in November 2023.
Processing Information
Processed: March 2024
By: Johanna Carll
The Schlesinger Library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit. Finding aids may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
Creator
- Iwazawa, Shizuko, 1929- (Person)
Subject
- Crystal City Internment Camp (Crystal City, Tex.) (Organization)
- Title
- Iwazawa, Shizuko, 1929-. Papers of Shizuko Iwazawa, 1945-1966: A Finding Aid
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- Sponsor
- Processing of this collection was made possible by the Alice Jeannette Ward Fund.
- EAD ID
- sch02273
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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