Japanese American National MuseumArt and photography created by Japanese-American Internees during World War II
Clara Breed Collection: this collection focuses on the librarian's correspondence with young Japanese Americans during their internment during World War II.
Hisako Hibi Collection: includes sixty-three oil paintings by Hisako Hibi created at the Tanforan Assembly Center in California Topaz camp in Utah between 1942 and 1945, including portrayals of various daily activities.
George Hoshida Collection: Includes over 260 drawings and watercolors drawn from Hoshida's visual diary covering his incarceration in various concentration camps throughout the duration of World War II.
Estelle Ishigo Collection: over 120 drawings, sketches, and watercolors portraying life in the Pomona detention center in California and in the Heart Mountain, Wyoming camp during World War II.
Jack Iwata Collection: over 170 photographs taken at Manzanar and Tule Lake concentration camps between 1942 and 1945.
Walter Muramoto Collection: a collection of 361 photographs detailing daily life in Rohwer, Arkansas between 1942 and 1945. The same camp Takei lived with his family.
Mori Shimada Collection: a collection of scrapbooks featuring photographs of friends, family, and social and sporting events in Heart Mountain concentration camp.
Henry Sugimoto Collection: Over 130 paintings from the 1930s to the 1950s, depicting several concentration camps.