This special project is an online database of maps, documents, photographs, artifacts, and oral history interview excerpts pertaining to the Japanese American confinement sites during WWII, hosted by the University of San Francisco Gleeson Library Digital Collections. These images are provided as a research resource of primary graphic documentation for students, teachers, researchers, and the general public.

The online database contains:

• Documents, photographs, and artifacts brought to or made in camp from the National Japanese American Historical Society Collections.
• Artifacts loaned to NJAHS for the Sa sa e exhibition in 2009 by the Japanese American community.
• Architectural drawings and engineering plans from the National Archives.
• Excerpts of oral history interviews of Japanese Peruvians from the Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project.

The original project began in 2009 and was completed in 2011 under Project Director Lynne Horiuchi in collaboration with the USF Department of Art and Architecture, the USF Gleeson Library | Geschke Center, and NJAHS. NJAHS has continued the project with the USF Museum Studies Graduate Program and the USF Gleeson Library | Geschke Center. It is funded by the National Park Service Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program.

From the Camps They Served: Nisei Soldier Digital Archives – Provides public access to 300 rare objects and documents from Japanese Americans who served in the US Army during WWII related to the Japanese American confinement sites.

Bear Witness: Camp Oral History Collections – Provides access to oral history interview excerpts of camp incarcerees.