Japanese American Student Life Right Before Internment in Galileo High School Yearbook, Most of the students photographed were soon incarcerated in remote camps such as Tule Lake, Manzanar, and Topaz.1940
Publication date: 1940
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Seller: Max Rambod Inc, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.Max Rambod Inc
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Galileo High School (San Francisco). The Telescope, 1940, documenting Japanese American student life immediately prior to wartime incarceration under federal policy. The yearbook documents identifiable students, school organizations, and daily educational environments, providing primary-source visual evidence for the study of Japanese American life before forced removal during World War II. The yearbook includes numerous Nisei students represented in senior portraits, club affiliations, and school activities, preserving a record of a community integrated within public education shortly before the implementation of Executive Order 9066 in 1942 authorizing the mass exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast. Most of the students photographed here-many still teenagers-would be forced to abandon their education and homes for incarceration in remote camps such as Tule Lake, Manzanar, and Topaz. Galileo High School. The Telescope. San Francisco: Galileo High School, 1940. Yearbook of the graduating class. The volume includes individual portrait photographs, group images, and activity pages documenting student organizations and campus life. A large "Japanese Club" group photograph shows nearly two dozen students posed in formal arrangement, while additional pages include Japanese American students participating in academic, artistic, and social activities alongside classmates of varied backgrounds. Artwork credited to a student identified as Miyamoto appears within the volume, including design contributions to the yearbook's visual program. Inscriptions and layout elements reflect typical yearbook features, including captions, student names, and club identifications. This yearbook shows Japanese American students in the years preceding mass incarceration, when established communities in areas such as Japantown maintained educational, cultural, and social institutions despite ongoing legal discrimination. Within two years of publication, many of the individuals pictured would have been subject to forced relocation and confinement in camps such as Tule Lake, Manzanar, and Topaz under Executive Order 9066. The volume thus serves as a pre-incarceration record of identity, community structure, and youth life, offering a basis for research into displacement, civil liberties, and wartime policy. One volume. Bound in blue cloth. Light sunning to spine and minor rubbing to corners; internally clean; overall very good condition. A significant visual document of Japanese American student life immediately preceding World War II incarceration.…
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- Title
- Japanese American Student Life Right Before Internment in Galileo High School Yearbook, Most of the students photographed were soon incarcerated in remote camps such as Tule Lake, Manzanar, and Topaz.1940
- Author
- Japanese-Americans in San Francisco; Japanese American Internment
- Publication year
- 1940
- Binding
- Hardcover
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- American History by State, Asian American History, Military & War
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