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Two Japanese Americans inside barracks (ddr-densho-15-60)
Mrs. Shioshi (left) and Mrs. Odoi inside camp barracks. Both had sons in the military.
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Two children outside barracks (ddr-densho-15-49)
Two of Hana Matsuo's children pose with the fire-station dog.
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Japanese American preparing meal (ddr-densho-15-70)
Jim Shiga, well-known for his cooking skills, prepares a meal in the camp's warehouse kitchen.
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Japanese Americans making furniture (ddr-densho-15-65)
The barracks apartments that housed Japanese Americans contained cots and a coal-burning stove, but no other furniture. Camp inmates often made their own furniture and other accessories from scrap lumber.
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Japanese Americans playing cards at the fire station (ddr-densho-15-59)
This is the interior of Fire Station Number 1. Left to right: (first name unknown) Hikida, unidentified, Yoshio Akada, and Mr. Sano. The fire station was one of the few buildings with a refrigerator. Mr. Sano owned the bathhouse underneath the Panama Hotel in Seattle, Washington, before World War II.
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Japanese American family (ddr-densho-15-46)
Sam (left) and Fumie Taniguchi and their two daughters.
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Two Japanese Americans sleeping (ddr-densho-15-79)
Two Japanese Americans resting after the camp's farm picnic.
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Honor roll (ddr-densho-15-82)
Japanese Americans looking at the camp's honor roll, a listing of all the Japanese Americans from the Minidoka concentration camp who volunteered for military service. Minidoka had the highest number of volunteers from the mainland United States.
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Japanese American with light meter (ddr-densho-15-57)
Norio Mitsuoka, twenty-seven years old, prepares to take a picture. Although cameras were among the items confiscated from Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor, Mitsuoka was allowed to have a camera in camp in 1944.
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Japanese Americans washing dishes (ddr-densho-15-74)
Issei washing dishes inside the camp's warehouse kitchen.
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Interior of camp office (ddr-densho-15-52)
Yoneko Tanaka (seated, facing the camera) working in the camp's co-op office.
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Holiday letter from a Nisei man (ddr-densho-155-3)
This letter was sent to a Minidoka concentration camp administrator who worked in the procurement office.
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Letter from a Nisei man (ddr-densho-155-1)
This letter was sent to a Minidoka concentration camp administrator who worked in the procurement office.
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Letter from a Nisei (ddr-densho-155-5)
This letter was sent to a Minidoka concentration camp administrator who worked in the procurement office.
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Letter from a Nisei man (ddr-densho-155-8)
This letter was sent to a Minidoka concentration camp administrator who worked in the procurement office.
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"Index of Cost Accounting Number" (ddr-densho-155-25)
Issued by the Cost Accounting Unit, Finance Section, Minidoka WRA.
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Letter from a Nisei man (ddr-densho-155-12)
This letter was sent to a Minidoka concentration camp administrator who worked in the procurement office.
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Letter from a Nisei woman (ddr-densho-155-7)
This letter was sent to a Minidoka concentration camp administrator who worked in the procurement office.
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Letter from a Nisei woman (ddr-densho-155-11)
This letter was sent to Minidoka concentration camp administrators who worked in the procurement office.
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Letter from a Nisei woman (ddr-densho-155-2)
This letter was sent to a Minidoka concentration camp administrator who worked in the procurement office.