Guide to the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Collection of Japanese American Newspapers, 1946-2014

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Guide to the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Collection of Japanese American Newspapers, 1946-2014

1946-2014

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_688/tam_688.html

This collection groups 15 Japanese American newspaper titles originally contained within archival collections held at the Tamiment Library. Holdings include incomplete runs of publications dating from 1946 to 2014, published in New York, California, Colorado, Washington, and in Japan, with coverage chronicling responses to current events and highlighting progressive causes and cultural movements in the Japanese American community. The collection includes issues of <i>Hokubai Shimpo</i> and the <i>New York Nichibei</i> published between 1946 and 1993, and issues of <i>Rafu Shimpo</i> from the 2010s.

18.6 Linear Feet in 33 flat boxes

jpn, Jpan

eng, Latn

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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