{"id":801,"date":"2015-08-12T22:51:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T22:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/njahs.org\/confinementsites\/?page_id=801"},"modified":"2025-08-04T14:10:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:10:47","slug":"about-the-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/njahs.org\/confinementsites\/about-the-project\/","title":{"rendered":"About the NJAHS Digital Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_medium\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row type_default valign_top\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<h1>About the NJAHS Digital Archives<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The NJAHS Digital Archives serves as the entry for access to NJAHS digital databases. Currently NJAHS\u2019 primary repository is hosted via University of San Francisco\u2019s Gleeson Library\u2019s Digital Collection. NJAHS is in the process of bringing online a new Collection Management System (CMS) CatalogIt and with it we will be publishing our collection to the public via our new HUB: <em>Link Coming Soon<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Digital Archive represents hundreds of hours of labor by NJAHS staff, interns, contractors and volunteers. From 2009-2025, the collection has been digitized with the assistance of the US Department of the Interior National Park Service Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) Grant Program. As we as the cooperation of the University of San Francisco\u2019s Gleeson Library, and the USF College of Arts And Sciences, especially the School of Architecture and the Museum Studies MA program. Without the help of so many people this archive would not have been possible. Thank you.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Leaving Traces: Camp Life Digitization Project 2023-2025<\/h4>\n<h5>Project Status: Completed!<\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leaving Traces sought to build upon the previous digitization efforts of NJAHS by focusing on the archival collection held by NJAHS and making them available to the public.\u00a0 The project digitized some approx. 320 archival folders and entries.\u00a0 Some of them are over 200 pages long.\u00a0 The goal was to provide key context to the eviction and incarceration of Japanese Americans via this archival collection to include prewar archival material of incarcerees, as well as post war material related to resettlement, and efforts around memorialization and redress for the incarceration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We gratefully acknowledge the participation of the following individuals and institutions in creating this website:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Class of 2023 Masters of Art in Museum Studies at San Francisco State University<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emma De Graaf, MA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Class of 2024 Masters of Art in Museum Studies at University of San Francisco<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Donovan Hernadez, MA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NJAHS Collection Intern<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jesse Yagi<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Bear Witness: Camp Oral History Digital Collections<\/h4>\n<h5>Project Status: Completed!<\/h5>\n<p>Bear Witness is a digital collections collaborative preservation project of the National Japanese American Historical Society, Inc. (NJAHS) and the University of San Francisco (USF) that provides first time access to 181 oral history interviews from the NJAHS permanent collection. The selection includes the stories of Japanese Americans who were evicted from their homes and imprisoned at the Japanese American confinement sites and Japanese Americans who fought in the U.S. Army during WII. Full transcripts will be created, digitized, and \/ or edited and made available by request, while summaries, keywords, quotes, and indexes for each interview will be available from the USF Gleeson Library Digital Collections. Each full interview will be digitized from the original recording media and excerpts from select interviews will be made available online. With this project, NJAHS and USF will preserve and amplify the voices of those who lived through the Japanese American experience before, during, and after WWII.<\/p>\n<p>181 new oral history interview excerpts have been added to the online database. <a href=\"https:\/\/njahs.org\/confinementsites\/oral-histories\/\">View 48 video excerpts here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We gratefully acknowledge the participation of the following individuals and institutions in creating this website:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>USF 2018 Undergraduate Interns:<\/strong><br \/>\nBenjamin Nhuch\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aubrey Welchelberger-Muniz<\/p>\n<p><strong>USF Museum Studies Program Class of 2019:<\/strong><br \/>\nMegan Udell<\/p>\n<p><strong>NJAHS 2019 Summer Interns:<\/strong><br \/>\nCatherine Sakurai\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hiro Edeza<\/p>\n<p><strong>NJAHS 2020 Summer Interns:<\/strong><br \/>\nYi-Shen Loo\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Charlene Tonai<br \/>\nConnor Nakamura<\/p>\n<p><strong>2019 Oral History Interviews:<\/strong><br \/>\nClaudia Katayanagi &#8211; Biosphere Productions<\/p>\n<p><strong>Specialized Videotape Digitization:<\/strong><br \/>\nCalvin Roberts &#8211; Granma Productions<\/p>\n<h4>From the Camps they Served: Nisei Soldier Digital Archives<\/h4>\n<h5>Project Status: Completed!<\/h5>\n<p>From the Camps They Served is a digital collections collaborative preservation project of the National Japanese American Historical Society, Inc. (NJAHS) and the University of San Francisco (USF) that provides for the first time online public access for 300 rare objects and documents from Japanese Americans who served in the US Army from WWII Japanese American confinement sites.\u00a0Selection of at least 300 items will be made from the NJAHS permanent collection, which includes objects from the Nisei military personnel of the 100<sup>th<\/sup> Infantry Battalion, the 442<sup>nd<\/sup> Regimental Combat Team, the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion and the Military Intelligence Service, including the Women\u2019s Army Corps that tell a story of their unique experience dealing with the exclusion, incarceration and their military service to their country. From the private collections of Nisei soldiers, this project showcases such items as their diaries, correspondence letters, v-mail to and from family members, specially \u2013 sized military uniforms, camp &#8211; made good luck mementos, blue star emblems, private photographs, scrapbooks and albums from camp to overseas, drawings, and memorabilia that represent their perspectives as Nisei soldiers from behind barbed wire. Other featured objects such as dog tags, patches, medals, daily reports, POW tags, banners, flags shall illustrate their unique encounters with their combatants of Japanese, German and Italian descent, as well as their special relationships as liberators of the French, Filipino and Okinawan people.<\/p>\n<p>277 new entries into the online database representing 304 WWII artifacts have been uploaded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We gratefully acknowledge the participation of the following individuals and institutions in creating this website:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>USF Museum Studies Program Class of 2018:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Catherine Armstrong\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jamie Blankenship<br \/>\nJennifer Cha\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Michael Reyes<\/p>\n<p><strong>USF Museum Studies Program Class of 2019:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Lauren Dillon<\/p>\n<p><strong>USF Museum Studies Program Class of 2020:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Chloe Clouse\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sarah Wehlage<\/p>\n<p><strong>NJAHS Interns:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Nathaniel Yu<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_medium color_custom\" style=\"background-color: #9bb0cc;\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row type_default valign_middle\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<h3>Project History<\/h3>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"w-tabs layout_default accordion title_left icon_chevron iconpos_right \"><div class=\"w-tabs-list items_5\"><div class=\"w-tabs-list-h\"><div class=\"w-tabs-item\"><a href=\"#1539793871736-c7552e85-5183\" class=\"w-tabs-item-h\"><span class=\"w-tabs-item-title\">Project 1, Phase 1: Website and Database Production<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"w-tabs-item\"><a href=\"#1539793871770-6e24854d-9fb5\" class=\"w-tabs-item-h\"><span class=\"w-tabs-item-title\">Project 1, Phase 2: Website Redesign and Database Management<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"w-tabs-item\"><a href=\"#1539793874761-d1a228c1-83d7\" class=\"w-tabs-item-h\"><span class=\"w-tabs-item-title\">Project 2: Camp Collections: A Digital Library<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"w-tabs-item\"><a href=\"#1540338577567-0ce1e033-b6d3\" class=\"w-tabs-item-h\"><span class=\"w-tabs-item-title\">Project 3: Camp Digital Archives<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"w-tabs-item\"><a href=\"#1754315075348-1754799f-2a5e\" class=\"w-tabs-item-h\"><span class=\"w-tabs-item-title\">Project 4: Leaving Traces and movement to HUB<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-tabs-sections\"><div class=\"w-tabs-sections-h\"><div class=\"w-tabs-section\" id=\"1539793871736-c7552e85-5183\"><a href=\"#1539793871736-c7552e85-5183\" class=\"w-tabs-section-header\"><div class=\"w-tabs-section-header-h\"><h5 class=\"w-tabs-section-title\">Project 1, Phase 1: Website and Database Production<\/h5><div class=\"w-tabs-section-control\"><\/div><\/div><\/a><div class=\"w-tabs-section-content\"><div class=\"w-tabs-section-content-h i-cf\">\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<p>The original project was undertaken with Lynne Horiuchi and Seth Wachtel in his Community Services Architectural Studio at USF. Lynne Horiuchi assigned students to work on designing the website and database. As a collaborative project, Lynne Horiuchi structured the content and guided the design along with several website consultants. The students designed and developed the website, producing all major elements: a home page, the tabbed format, links by type for locations, drawings, and objects\/artifacts.<\/p>\n<p>The group learned together as all participants came to the project with little experience in website design. Students and project staff alike learned how purpose and content structured the website\u2019s design, working with USF Digital Collections Librarian Jessica Zheng Lu and digital archivist consultant Susan Garfinkel.<\/p>\n<p>Lynne Horiuchi had previously collected copies of architectural drawings and engineering plans of the 10 WRA Centers for research for a forthcoming book, <em>Dislocations: The Planning, Design and Construction of Japanese American Confinement Sites<\/em>. Lynne Horiuchi obtained digitized copies of these drawings and plans from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) collection. Jimi Yamaichi, a dedicated member of the Tule Lake Committee and Curator at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose, also contributed a number of scans from his private collection of drawings and plans of Tule Lake Relocation \/ Segregation Center. Additional digital scans were obtained from NARA for the website. The National Japanese American Historical Society has also provided images of camp objects from its collection and from individual private collections featured in the <em>Sasae: Objects of Memory<\/em> and <em>Art of Gaman<\/em> exhibitions.<\/p>\n<p>This hands-on undergraduate studio project explored website content and critical assessments of user accessibility and collections metadata work with Jessica Zheng Lu. It was a seminal pedagogical model that became the basis to develop interdisciplinary programs in historic preservation, geography, landscape architecture, urban studies, and other academic areas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We gratefully acknowledge the participation of the following individuals and institutions in creating this website:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lynne Horiuchi, Project Director<br \/>\nSeth Wachtel, Program Director and Assistant Professor, Department of Art + Architecture, USF<br \/>\nSusan Garfinkel, Website\/Database Design Consultant<br \/>\nHachem Mahfoud, Research Assistant\/ Web Designer<br \/>\nBelen Ponce, Research Assistant\/ Original Web Designer<br \/>\nThe Gleeson Library\/Geschke Center, USF<br \/>\nJessica Zheng Lu, Digital Collections Librarian<br \/>\nJimi Yamaichi, Contributor<br \/>\nFrancis Wong, Web Design Direction<\/p>\n<p><strong>Student Participants:<\/strong><br \/>\nAriel Takata-Vasquez<br \/>\nKeng-Lin Lu<br \/>\nSheila Imandoust<br \/>\nBecca Liu<br \/>\nMelody Peralta<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-tabs-section\" id=\"1539793871770-6e24854d-9fb5\"><a href=\"#1539793871770-6e24854d-9fb5\" class=\"w-tabs-section-header\"><div class=\"w-tabs-section-header-h\"><h5 class=\"w-tabs-section-title\">Project 1, Phase 2: Website Redesign and Database Management<\/h5><div class=\"w-tabs-section-control\"><\/div><\/div><\/a><div class=\"w-tabs-section-content\"><div class=\"w-tabs-section-content-h i-cf\">\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<p>In November 2012, a new project team consisting of Project Director Rosalyn Tonai, Collections Manager and Project Assistant Max Nihei, website designer Roy Chan, USF Digital Collections Librarian Jessica Zheng Lu, and collections consultant Paloma A\u00f1overos was assembled. Roy Chan redesigned the website using WordPress for better look and feel, easier customizability, more features, and improved security. With consultation from JACS, the website and database\u2019s content were checked for language consistency and historical accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Max Nihei photographed 46 objects from the NJAHS collection and Rosalyn Tonai, after conducting onsite research at NARA in College Park, M.D. ordered 38 engineering plans of 8 relocation sites for the database. As of August 2013, the database now contained 162 architectural plans and engineering maps and 121 camp objects. After Max Nihei compiled information on the maps and objects, images and information, Jessica Zheng Lu uploaded them to the database.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We gratefully acknowledge the participation of the following individuals and institutions in advancing the development of the website:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jessica Zheng Lu, USF Digital Collections Librarian, Gleeson Library<br \/>\nRosalyn Tonai, Project Director, NJAHS<br \/>\nMax Nihei, Project Assistant \/ Collections Manager, NJAHS<br \/>\nRoy Chan, Web Designer<br \/>\nPaloma A\u00f1overos, Collections Consultant, USF Museum Studies Instructor<br \/>\nTyrone Cannon, Dean of USF Gleeson Library Collections<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-tabs-section\" id=\"1539793874761-d1a228c1-83d7\"><a href=\"#1539793874761-d1a228c1-83d7\" class=\"w-tabs-section-header\"><div class=\"w-tabs-section-header-h\"><h5 class=\"w-tabs-section-title\">Project 2: Camp Collections: A Digital Library<\/h5><div class=\"w-tabs-section-control\"><\/div><\/div><\/a><div class=\"w-tabs-section-content\"><div class=\"w-tabs-section-content-h i-cf\">\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<p>On September 2013, NJAHS was awarded a JACS grant to continue its efforts to improve public access to the collections by digitizing objects from NJAHS\u2019 Camp Collections and posting them in the online database hosted by the USF Gleeson Library. <em>Camp Collections: A Digital Library<\/em> focused on providing accessibility to the NJAHS collections and cross cultural awareness by involving diverse participants in the implementation portion of the project as well as by including a wider selection of objects from more confinement sites including Department of Justice and U.S. Army facilities. Under the direction of NJAHS\u2019s Director Rosalyn Tonai, Project Director and USF Adjunct Faculty, Paloma A\u00f1overos, the project involved the active participation of the USF graduate students in the Museum Studies program. As part of the Collections Management\/Preservation class, the students participated in the documentation, scanning, and photography, of 203 objects. The information was uploaded to the USF Gleeson Library Digital Collections for public access.<\/p>\n<p>Collections Manager \/ USF Museum Studies student Max Nihei served as key support staff for the project. This multidisciplinary project involved the invaluable participation of USF Digital Collections Librarian Jessica Zheng Lu, website designer Roy Chan and web development firm Verve. Additionally, Museum Studies program students Conny Bleul-Gohlke, Hillary Eischinger, and Lydia Marouf were valuable summer interns for the project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We gratefully acknowledge the participation of the following individuals and institutions in advancing the development of the website:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rosalyn Tonai, NJAHS Executive Director \/ Project Director<br \/>\nPaloma A\u00f1overos, USF Collections Management class instructor \/ Project Manager<br \/>\nMax Nihei, NJAHS Collections Manager \/ USF Museum Studies, Class of 2014, graduated Spring 2015<br \/>\nJessica Zheng Lu, USF Digital Collections Librarian<br \/>\nVerve Web Development<\/p>\n<p><strong>USF Museum Studies Program Class of 2014 Students:<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"g-cols wpb_row type_default valign_top vc_inner \"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-6 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<p>Elinoar Almagor<br \/>\nMerrill Amos<br \/>\nAlexa Beaman<br \/>\nLeah Belcher<br \/>\nKaitlin Buickel<br \/>\nCornelia Bleul-Gohlke<br \/>\nRay Bussolari<br \/>\nJanet Carmona<br \/>\nCelia Castro<br \/>\nBriana Commins<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-6 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<p>Nalini Elias<br \/>\nJenny Fry<br \/>\nLaura Harvey<br \/>\nNatalie Hollett<br \/>\nBrianna Jilson<br \/>\nMarykaren Mrowka<br \/>\nStephen Ryan Pinter<br \/>\nJames Peth<br \/>\nCho Rao<br \/>\nMariah Shevchuk<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>[vc_empty_space]\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<p><strong>USF Museum Studies Program Class of 2015 Students:<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"g-cols wpb_row type_default valign_top vc_inner \"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-6 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<p>Kathryn Booth<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Miriam Blumenfeld<br \/>\nKayla Bruemmer<br \/>\nVictor Crosetti<br \/>\nShannon Crowner<br \/>\nHillary Eichinger<br \/>\nJordan Dresser<br \/>\nAngela Gala<br \/>\nErin Golightly<br \/>\nJenna Hebert<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-6 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<p>Nell Herbert<br \/>\nLauren Law Kingsley<br \/>\nLaura Langlois<br \/>\nRheilly Llanos<br \/>\nLydia Marouf<br \/>\nSabrina Oliveros<br \/>\nFahimeh Rahravan<br \/>\nKathleen Schlier<br \/>\nAmber Spicer<br \/>\nMelissa Zabel<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-tabs-section\" id=\"1540338577567-0ce1e033-b6d3\"><a href=\"#1540338577567-0ce1e033-b6d3\" class=\"w-tabs-section-header\"><div class=\"w-tabs-section-header-h\"><h5 class=\"w-tabs-section-title\">Project 3: Camp Digital Archives<\/h5><div class=\"w-tabs-section-control\"><\/div><\/div><\/a><div class=\"w-tabs-section-content\"><div class=\"w-tabs-section-content-h i-cf\">\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<p>Camp Digital Archives is a collaborative project of the National Japanese American Historical\u00a0Society, Inc. (NJAHS) and the University of San Francisco (USF) to provide access to the public\u00a0of 449 selected entries from the NJAHS Archives internment collections.\u00a0The project consists of the digitization and cataloging of\u00a0documentary artifacts such as scrapbooks, newspapers, magazines, high school yearbooks, assignment notices, ID cards, postcards, drawings, correspondence, and photographs, making them accessible by producing high resolution digital scans and collecting\u00a0detailed information on each document, then uploading these files to the Japanese American\u00a0Confinement Sites database currently hosted by the USF Gleeson Library Digital Collections\u00a0website.\u00a010 original language excerpts of Japanese Latin American oral histories and English translations were also uploaded courtesy of the Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project (JPOHP). All 449 of these diverse selections from the NJAHS archives are now online.<\/p>\n<p>From September 2015 &#8211; 2017, NJAHS Exhibitions and Collections Manager Max Nihei, under the direction of NJAHS Executive Director Rosalyn Tonai and Project Director \/ USF Collections Management \/ Preservation class Professor Paloma A\u00f1overos, worked with students from the NJAHS Museum Studies and Asian American Studies programs to create high quality scans and provide information about the 449 objects now available online.<\/p>\n<p>USF Digital Collections Librarian Jessica Zheng Lu uploaded all content to the USF Gleeson Library Digital Collections online database, and website designer Greg Viloria and web development firm Verve Web Development updated the njahs.org\/confinementsites website. Summer interns Damon Do, Breanne Batara, Christina Schwandt, Kristin Wight, Emily Lawhead, Maddy McGuffin, and Gabriela Nakashima were all indispensable to the project&#8217;s success.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We gratefully acknowledge the participation of the following individuals and institutions in advancing the development of the website:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rosalyn Tonai, NJAHS Executive Director \/ Project Director<br \/>\nPaloma A\u00f1overos, USF Collections Management class instructor \/ Project Manager<br \/>\nMax Nihei, NJAHS Exhibitions and Collections Manager<br \/>\nJessica Zheng Lu, USF Digital Collections Librarian<br \/>\nVerve Marketing Group <a style=\"a: hover: #000000; color: #000000; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/vervemarketinggroup.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Web Development<\/a><br \/>\nGreg Viloria, Web Development<\/p>\n<p><strong>USF Museum Studies Program Class of 2016 Project Participants:<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"g-cols wpb_row type_default valign_top vc_inner \"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-6 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ben Glazier<br \/>\nBreanne Batara, 2016 Fall\/Winter\u00a0Project Intern<br \/>\nChristina Schwand, 2016 Fall\/Winter Project Intern<br \/>\nEmily Lawhead, 2016 Fall\/Winter Project Intern<br \/>\nHannah Claire Somerville<br \/>\nKristin Wight, 2016 Fall\/Winter\u00a0Project Intern<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-6 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lauren Dare<br \/>\nLauren Garnese<br \/>\nMonet Oganesian<br \/>\nMorgan Schlesinger<br \/>\nSara Hodge<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>[vc_empty_space]\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<p><strong>NJAHS Interns<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joseph Tsuboi, 2016 Nikkei Community Internship<br \/>\nDamon Do, USF Asian American Studies, 2016 Summer Project Intern<br \/>\nKatelynn Pan,\u00a02017 Nikkei Community Internship<br \/>\nGabriela Nakashima, 2017 Summer Project Intern<br \/>\nMaddy McGuffin, 2017 Summer Project Intern<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-tabs-section\" id=\"1754315075348-1754799f-2a5e\"><a href=\"#1754315075348-1754799f-2a5e\" class=\"w-tabs-section-header\"><div class=\"w-tabs-section-header-h\"><h5 class=\"w-tabs-section-title\">Project 4: Leaving Traces and movement to HUB<\/h5><div class=\"w-tabs-section-control\"><\/div><\/div><\/a><div class=\"w-tabs-section-content\"><div class=\"w-tabs-section-content-h i-cf\">\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leaving Traces is a collaborative project between NJAHS and University of San Francisco (USF).\u00a0 From 2022-2025 NJAHS Collection Manager Lilith Benjamin, under the direction of NJAHS Executive Director Rosalyn Tonai and Project Director \/ USF Collections Management \/ Preservation class Professor Paloma A\u00f1overos, worked with interns from USF and San Francisco State University to do an archival collection survey and digitize archival records now available online.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">USF Digital Collections Librarian Gina Solaris uploaded all content to the USF Gleeson Library Digital Collections online database, and web development firm Verve Marketing Group updated the njahs.org\/confinementsites website.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>We gratefully acknowledge the participation of the following individuals and institutions in advancing the development of the website:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rosalyn Tonai, NJAHS Executive Director \/ Project Director<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paloma A\u00f1overos, USF Collections Management class instructor \/ Project Manager<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lilith Benjamin, NJAHS Collection Manager<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gina Solaris, USF Digital Collections Librarian<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Verve Marketing Group<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dan Rael, Co-Founder CatalogIt \/ Sales and Client Services for CatalogIt<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>San Francisco State University Master of Arts in Museum Studies Class of 2023 Participants:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emma de Graaf<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">USF Museum Studies Program Class of 2024 Participants:<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Donovan Hernadez<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NJAHS Interns<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jesse Yagi, Collections Intern<\/span><\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_medium\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row type_default valign_top\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<p><strong>NJAHS Anti-discrimination Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The NJAHS is fully committed to being an organization that does not tolerate discrimination. No person is to be discriminated against because of their race, color, descent, ethnicity, sex, marital status, age or for a disability. Any such instances will not be tolerated, and all complaints will be dealt with in a timely, confidential and professional manner.<\/p>\n<p>This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of the Interior.<\/p>\n<p>This material received Federal financial assistance for the preservation and interpretation of U.S. confinement sites where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II. Under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, as amended, the U.S. Department of the Interior prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, disability or age in its federally funded assisted projects. If you believe you have been discriminated against in any program, activity, or facility as described above, or if you desire further information, please write to:<\/p>\n<p>Office of Equal Opportunity<br \/>\nNational Park Service<br \/>\n1849 C Street, NW<br \/>\nWashington, DC 20240<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"w-separator type_default size_medium thick_1 style_solid color_border align_center\"><div class=\"w-separator-h\"><\/div><\/div>\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<h3>This Project Was Made Possible By:<\/h3>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"g-cols wpb_row type_default valign_top vc_inner \"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-3 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"https:\/\/njahs.org\/confinementsites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/NPS-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-534 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/njahs.org\/confinementsites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/NPS-logo.jpg\" alt=\"NPS logo\" width=\"80\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a>Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program of the National Park Service<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-3 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.njahs.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/njahs.org\/confinementsites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/logo_default.gif\" alt=\"logo_default\" width=\"70\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a> National Japanese<br \/>\nAmerican Historical Society<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-3 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"http:\/\/njahs.org\/confinementsites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/usf_f_c_t_2c_rgb-100px.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1108 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/njahs.org\/confinementsites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/usf_f_c_t_2c_rgb-100px.gif\" alt=\"usf_f_c_t_2c_rgb 98px\" width=\"105\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>University of San Francisco<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-3 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apa.si.edu\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-346 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/njahs.org\/confinementsites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/smithsonian.png\" alt=\"smithsonian\" width=\"109\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a>Smithsonian Institution:<br \/>\nAsian Pacific American Program<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About the NJAHS Digital Archives The NJAHS Digital Archives serves as the entry for access to NJAHS digital databases. 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