The Estelle Ishigo Papers, 1941 - 1957 The Estelle Ishigo Papers, 1941 - 1957The Ishigo Papers are a part of the Japanese American Research Project Collection (JARP) which is deposited in the Department of Special Collections of the UCLA Research Library. JARP is considered one of the finest collections of primary sources in the United States on Japanese immigration history. Conducted under the sponsorship of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), JARP was a socio-historical research project which began in 1962 and lasted until 1972. During the course of the project, the JARP staff amassed a sizable body of material in the Japanese language which became the core of the JARP Collection. Additions were made as they were obtained.
The Ishigo Papers is part of the Nisei personal papers section of JARP's manuscript holdings. It consists mainly of documents, records, correspondence and other materials relating both to Estelle Ishigo's life in the Pomona Assembly Center, California, and the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming, as well as documents, correspondence and materials relating to Arthur and Estelle Ishigo's postwar resettlement in Southern California. The papers also contain Estelle Ishigo's manuscripts, short essays and draft manuscripts. Noteworthy is the presence of Estelle's various paintings, sketches and watercolors.
For the history of the Japanese American Research Project (JARP) see Yasuo Sakata's introduction in A Buried Past: An Annotated Bibliography of the Japanese American Research Project Collection, (Berkeley; University of California Press, 1974).
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