A "Masters of Arts Thesis" by John Isao Nishinoiri for the University of Washington in 1926. Nishinoiri was a graduate student from Japan studying for a M.A. degree in Sociology at the University of Washington.
"Exploring Biology" textbook by Ella Thea Smith from Minidoka Japanese Internment Camp in what was known then as Hunt, Idaho. The textbook, published in 1938, has a stamp inside that says it is the property of Watsonville Union High School, Watsonville, California. There is also a list of former students who had the book: Naomi Myrick, Nadine St. Clair (08/30/1939), Warren Bruce (08/29/1940), Kenneth Earl (09/04/1941) and Mas Okada (09/19/1941).
Includes publications by the California Joint Immigration Committee of San Francisco, newspaper clippings, government orders, proclamations, and other papers relating to a campaign in the 1920s and 1930s to bar Japanese people from West Coast states, a locally organized campaign to stop Japanese individuals from owning farmland, and the relocation and incarceration of Japanese citizens during World War II.