Oral history interview with Robert Hanamura
Object Details
- Interviewee
- Hanamura, Robert
- Interviewer
- Miro, Marsha
- Occupation
- Architects -- Michigan -- Detroit
- Topic
- Asian American architects
- Japanese American art
- Japanese American artists
- Asian American art
- Asian American artists
- Architecture -- Michigan -- Detroit
- Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment -- 1942-1945
- Provenance
- These interviews are part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
- Interviewee
- Hanamura, Robert
- Interviewer
- Miro, Marsha
- Sponsor
- Funding for the transcription of this interview provided by the Smithsonian Institution's Women's Committee. Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.
- Biographical / Historical
- Robert Hanamura (1923-2020) was a Japanese American architect based in Detroit, Michigan.
- Extent
- 2 Sound tape reels (Sound recording, 5 in.)
- 29 Pages (Transcript)
- Date
- circa 1977
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.hanamu77
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Sound tape reels
- Pages
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Scope and Contents
- An interview of Robert Hanamura conducted circa 1977, by Marsha Miro, for the Archives of American Art.
- Hanamura speaks of his youth as the son of Japanese immigrants; time spent in an internment camp during World War II; his education; and his career as an architect.
- Restrictions
- Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
- Record ID
- ebl-1596225710676-1596225710678-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
Oral history interview with Robert Hanamura, circa 1977, Digital Sound Recording (Excerpt)
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