Guides and Collections

Collections Pertaining to Asian American People and Culture in Oregon

Photographs, motion picture films, and videotapes

Extension Bulletin Illustrations (P 20)
P20:787 -- Group of Japanese being evacuated from Hood River, 1942
P20:788 -- Japanese family with luggage getting ready to board evacuation train, Hood River, 1942
P20:789 -- Japanese boarding train to be evacuated, Hood River, 1942

OSU Historical Collection (P 25)
P25:2739 - Chinese New Year, dragon costume, ca. 1940

Gwil Evans (P 82)
P82:35 image 589 - Hawaiian freshman hangs leis on dormitory staff, Bob Koehler on left; Oct 14, 1950.
P82:36 images 219-220 - Philippine students on home economics broadcast over KOAC; Oct. 14, 1950.
P82:36 image 769 - Hawaiian and Alaskan students; Oct. 1949
P82:91 image 1637 - Masu Takeda, Japanese student, and Ava B. Milam scholarship winner; Jan. 1954.
P82:91 image 1809 - Phi Kappa Phi, a Hawaiian student receives junior honor; Feb. 1955.
P82:164, image 2247 Chinese students in forestry at OSC; Dec. 1957

President's Office (P 92)
P95:1381 John Byrne and Japanese students, 1993? (5 images)

John Garman (P 95)
P95:93 -- Ruth Namuro in Japanese costume (5x7 Autochrome), ca. 1920s

Extension and Experiment Station Communications (P 120)
P120:1234 & 2600 -- Barracks-type building formerly part of the Japanese Relocation Center at Tule Lake, California has been moved by Earl W. Mack to his potato farm to be used during the harvest season to hold 10 to 12 workers
P120:2362 -- Japanese evacuees harvested onion seed in one of Malheur county's big onion seed acreage, 1944
P120:2429 -- About 450 Japanese-Americans from relocation centers were also used in Malheur county this season. They worked mostly for Japanese farmers, though there are some working in the Dale Garrison beet field.
P120:2606 -- Barracks from Japanese Relocation Center, now furnishing housing for farm labor on Bryant Williams farm. Klamath County, 1947.
P120:2608 -- House for permanent help, remodeled from former Japanese barracks, on W.M. Kaylor farm near Klamath Falls. House includes four rooms and bath. It measures 20 x 40 feet. 1947.
P120:2720 - Japanese-American field worker, Ontario, Oregon, May 1946
P120:2721 - Japanese-American workers weeding an onion field, Malheur County, May 1946

Asia University America Progam (P 209)
Photographs document the programs, activities, and participants of the Asia University America Program (AUAP) at OSU.

Harriet's Collection
2510 -- Student Organizations - Hawaiian Club (Hui O Hawaii)

University Records

President's Office (RG 13)
Subgroup 6 - General Subject file, series 8 - Oregon State College
          mf reel 20, ff 22b - Japanese-American students, 1941-1942

Student Affairs (RG 102)
Accession 90:32 - Student organizations (pre-1987)
          Chinese Christian Fellowship
          Friends of Japan
          Hui-O-Hawaii
          Indonesian Student Organization
          Japanese Student Organization
          Vietnamese Student Association

Accession 93:074 - Subject files
          Cultural Programming Fund, 1990
          Minority recruiting, 1985-1989

Accession 95:009 - records of the Minority Students Affairs Advisory Council, 1987-88 (includes report on creation of and funding for cultural centers at OSU.)

Manuscript Collections

Te May Ching Papers - Personal papers of OSU crop scientist Ching. The collection covers the years 1944-1988. Dr. Ching is a native of China.

Ava Milam Clark Papers - Personal papers of OSU dean of home economics Ava Milam (1917-1950). Collection includes letters, photographs and other materials pertaining to international students from Japan, China, and other Pacific rim countires, as well as records of Milam's work in China and Japan.

Richard Y. Morita Papers - Personal papers of OSU microbiologist Richard Morita. The collection dates from 1949-2001. Morita is of Japanese ancestry.

Harry S. Nakaue Papers - Personal papers of Nakaue, an OSU poultry scientist. This extensive collection dates from 1975 to 1997. Nakaue is of Japanese ancestry.

Oregon State University Collegiate 4-H Club Records, 1929-1985 - Includes records of the LABO - 4-H Exchange, an exchange program with Japanese students, 1972-1982.

Memorabilia Collection files

Alumni - contains clippings about Ariko Iso ('93), the first female athletic trainer in the National Football League.

Asian Americans in Oregon -- newspaper clippings and article drafts on Japanese-American students at Oregon State College in WWII, their removal from campus, and the 2008 honorary degree ceremony.

Asian Pacific Island American Association (APIAA) of OSU -- leaflet from the early 1990s describing this student organization.

Chinese Students and Scholars Association - newspaper clippings and brochures pertaining to this OSU student organization.

Morita, Richard Y. - Extensive biography and vita of Dr. Morita, a long-time Microbiology faculty member at OSU. Dr. Morita is Nisei, and spent time in the Gila Relocation Center during World War II.

World War II - This file includes a copy of an article from the October 1995 Oregon Stater on Japanese-American students at Oregon State College that were sent to internment camps during the war.