Manuscripts

Early family

Description: Snapshots of the Sakai family, bulk most likely in the San Diego area in the 1920s, including images of Masao Sakai, Sumi and other Sakai children, beach excursions, polo matches, a car race, and other activities. There are several small loose snapshots in an envelope of Japan that appear to be from a later date.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1914-1923, undated
Call number: mssSK
Provenance: Gift of Kozawa Family Trust, February 2020.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.; RESTRICTED: Box 48: housed in cold storage; extended retrieval and delivery time required.

Early family

Manuscripts

Includes snapshots of Masao Sakai, Sakai family, and others, and animals; images of Hobart Nursery located at 1624 W. 37th Place, Los Angeles, and floral arrangements; and other activities and unidentified locations.

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Immediate family

Manuscripts

Portraits of Asakichi and Ura Kawakami, Yuki Sakai and children, Sumi Lillian Sakai Kozawa, Frank Ukio Kozawa, and Susie Kozawa. Includes baby portraits of Sumi Lillian Sakai Kozawa and of her in Japan, 1941 (box 35, folder 1) and numerous Susie Kozawa school portraits. Also present are formal photos of the funerals of Ura Kawakami at Manzanar, 1942 (box 38) and of Dan Sakai (box 42); a group portrait of Yuki Sakai and her children, 1930s (box 42); and portraits of Sumi and Miyoko Sakai in kimonos, 1930s (box 43).

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Sumi Lillian Sakai Kozawa

Manuscripts

Includes snapshots of the Sakai and Kawakami families, including Ura Kawakami, Yuki Sakai and the Sakai and Kawakami children, and pets. Images depict the Roscoe ranch, flower gardens and greenhouses at Roscoe and Los Feliz; excursions to Santa Monica, Long Beach and San Pedro, and Glendale; and brother Akira Dan and his racing car. There are numerous snapshots of Sumi's 1940 to 1941 trip to Japan, traveling with Sunao Imoto onboard the Kamakura Maru with stops in San Francisco and Hawaii, and of her extended stay in Japan visiting multiple locations and Japanese family members. See Sunao Imoto's photo album for other photos of this trip, especially aboard the Kamakura Maru (box 23). Also present are a few earlier photos of Masao Sakai. Several photographs are missing, most are captioned.

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Family papers

Manuscripts

Bulk is material for family members Yuki Sakai, Sumi Lillian Sakai Kozawa, Frank Ukio Kozawa, Susie Kozawa, and Etsuko Rose Sakai. Includes correspondence, notebooks and school material, publications, ephemera, and artifacts. Filing names reflect most common usages and variations.

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Sunao Imoto

Manuscripts

Photo album titled "Abroad with My Camera and Me" of family friend Sunao Imoto's travels to Japan via San Francisco and Hawaii onboard the Kamakura Maru with Sumi Sakai, departing April 8, 1940. Snapshots document shipboard activities, a lengthy stay of study in Tokyo, and tourist and family visits to Kyoto, rural Southern Japan, and Manchukuo (Manchuria); Imoto's travels around Japan appear to be without Sumi Sakai. Album was created as a gift to Walter and Galetta Van Valkenburgh in December 1941 and contains extensive captions and commentary, including observations on the lives of Japanese women, both urban and rural. Several snapshots depict Imoto's return trip onboard the Montevideo Maru with its mostly European refugee passengers, arriving in Los Angeles on June 11, 1941. Sumi Sakai photo album, 1920s to 1941, also includes snapshots of the same journey to Japan, including Kamakura Maru shipboard images. Also present is a loose War Relocation Authority publicity photo of Sunao Imoto working as a secretary for poet Carl Sandburg following her release from the Poston War Relocation Center, dated May 1944.

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Sumi Lillian Sakai Kozawa

Manuscripts

Primarily photographs of Manzanar, including numerous reproductions of Ansel Adams photos as well as snapshots of Sumi Sakai and others, some with captions. There are a few images of the library staff in 1943 and several of young men in military uniforms both at Manzanar and in Europe, presumably sent to Sumi. A number of photos depict an excursion of Sumi and friends possibly occurring after the war ended but before return to Los Angeles, along with stock photos of the Mojave Desert.

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