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Jiro Onuma papers, 1904-1990

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[San Francisco, California] : Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Historical Society, 1904-1990.
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1 online resource (17 manuscripts) : illustrations
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Biography of Jiro Onuma researched and written by Tina Takemoto, California College of the Arts: Jiro Onuma (1904-1990) was a gay Japanese American born on February 2, 1904, in Kanegasaki, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. In 1923, he immigrated to the United States and spent most of his adult life in the San Francisco Bay Area. His collection of personal materials, held at the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society archive, is one of their few archival collections documenting the lives of LGBTQ Japanese Americans. It consists of photographs, personal documents, and an assortment of male homoerotic ephemera. It also contains rare photographs of adult gay Issei taken in the American concentration camps. The collection includes photographs of Onuma (1904-1990), his friends, and family in the U.S. and in Japan and, notably, a photo of a group of Japanese-Americans (Jiro in the front row) taken in front of a dining hall at the World War II Japanese internment camp in Topaz, Utah. There are also personal papers, including passports, Onuma's naturalization papers, his will, a few fragile letters in Japanese and a few sketches. The collection also includes materials related to the pre-WWII physical culture movement, and much of those focus on one particular star of the 1920s and 1930s, Earle Liederman. The collection file includes "From the Past, A Gay Life," a biography of Onuma, by Ken Kaji.
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Date range: 1904-1990.
Includes the following publications: Address book, ID cards, U.S. passports; Collection of postcards; Biographical information and research; Photos, miscellaneous 1; Physique; and others.
Reproduction of the original from El Colegio de México, Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas.
Images from the source libraries are selected contents of the original collection materials as representative of their value and pertinence to the digital product.
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