Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Stanley Hayami diary,
- Dates:
- 1941-1944
- Creators:
- Hayami, Stanley
- Abstract:
- Stanley Hayami was a Japanese American student from Los Angeles who attended high school at the Heart Mountain concentration camp in Wyoming.
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Gift from the Estate of Frank Naoichi and Asano Hayami, parents of Stanley Kunio Hayami, Japanese American National Museum (95.226.1).
Background
- Scope and content:
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One 96 page diary. The diary, which Hayami kept from 1941 to 1944, records a spectrum of youthful dreams of becoming an artist-writer and doubts ranging from the quality of his schoolwork to the meaning of democracy. The diary includes pen and ink drawings by Hayami.
- Biographical / historical:
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Stanley Hayami (1925-1945) was a student from Los Angeles who attended high school at the Heart Mountain Concentration Camp in Wyoming. Hayami left Heart Mountain in June 1944 to join the U.S. Army and was killed in combat in Northern Italy on April 23, 1945, while trying to help a fellow soldier. He was nineteen years old.
- Physical description:
- 1 diary
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 2000
- Date Encoded:
- Textual frontmatter derived from MS-Word by Snowden Becker; container list derived from MS-Access by Michael Conkin. Date of source: 2000.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is not open for research.
- Terms of access:
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All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from materials in this collection must be submitted to the Hirasaki National Resource Center at the Japanese American National Museum (collections@janm.org).
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Gift from the Estate of Frank Naoichi and Asano Hayami, parents of Stanley Kunio Hayami, Japanese American National Museum (95.226.1).
- Location of this collection:
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Collections Management & Access Unit100 North Central AvenueLos Angeles, CA 90012, US
- Contact:
- 213-625-0414