Events › Densho Community Preservation Day

Join us at the Bellevue Library for a DIY preservation workshop, where we will be sharing tips for preserving and archiving your own family photographs, home videos, documents, and mementos. This workshop is open to all.

Densho is a Seattle-based digital archive and public history organization that preserves and shares the stories of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II. Our public website offers irreplaceable firsthand accounts from those who lived through this history, as well as vast collections of historical materials and educational resources. Check out our collections here.

In addition, we invite those with materials specifically related to the WWII-era incarceration of Japanese Americans to share these invaluable objects with Densho. Densho staff will bring a mobile digitization kit to scan historical photos, documents, and other materials for inclusion in our online archives. In collaboration with the King County Library System Memory Lab, staff will also conduct short interviews with community members to document reflections on the contemporary moment, helping to record history as it unfolds in real time.

If you have materials or stories to share, please fill out this sign-up form.