This collection consists of Crystal City Chatters, the Crystal City Internment Camp publication, as well as newspapers, books, and photographs. These include a 50th anniversary reunion book of Crystal City Internment Camp and a book by Mr. Furukochi written and illustrated by hand during his internment in Santa Fe, New Mexico that he gifted to Taro George Masuda.

This collection chiefly consists of the professional papers of Japanese-American sociologist and professor Tamotsu Shibutani (1920-2004). The bulk of the collection relates to Shibutani’s academic career at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in the form of research and writing materials, course files, and professional correspondence. In addition, there are photograph albums of his mother, Taka Shibutani (1892-1986), dating from the early 1900s to 1980s.