Social and recreational activities

img Children sitting in front of floral background (ddr-csujad-32-16)

Photograph of two children with a floral background behind them, most likely for a play or event at the Minidoka incarceration camp. Photo featured on page 7 of the Minidoka Incarceration Camp Photograph Album (csudh_ben_001). See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ben_01_001_008_026

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-32-16/

img Women at the Minidoka camp (ddr-csujad-32-30)

Photograph of two women standing outside a camp barrack. One of the women is Caucasian, probably a teacher, and wearing a kimono. The other is Japanese American and also wearing a kimono. She is possibly Madame Fujima Kansuma's dance student. Photo featured on page 16 of the Minidoka Incarceration Camp Photograph Album (csudh_ben_001). See this object …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-32-30/

img Group of children at Minidoka incarceration camp (ddr-csujad-32-14)

Group photograph of children at the Minidoka incarceration camp. Photo featured on page 7 of the Minidoka Incarceration Camp Photograph Album (csudh_ben_001). See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ben_01_001_008_024

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-32-14/

img Group of male children on barrack stairs (ddr-csujad-32-19)

Group photograph of male children standing on the stairs of Minidoka incarceration camp barrack. Photo featured on page 8 of the Minidoka Incarceration Camp Photograph Album (csudh_ben_001). See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ben_01_001_009_029

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-32-19/

img Minidoka incarceration camp photograph album (ddr-csujad-32-1)

The photograph album contains 69 photographs from mostly the Minidoka incarceration camp. It may have been compiled by Lona Haug, vice-principal of the Blk 10 school at the Minidoka incarceration camp in 1943. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ben_01_001

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-32-1/

img Group of female children on barrack stairs (ddr-csujad-32-17)

Group photograph of female children standing on the stairs of barrack C-D at the Minidoka incarceration camp. Photo featured on page 7 of the Minidoka Incarceration Camp Photograph Album (csudh_ben_001). See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ben_01_001_009_027

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-32-17/

img Woman in kimono (ddr-csujad-32-32)

Photograph of a woman wearing a kimono and holding an umbrella. She is possibly Madame Fujima Kansuma's dance student. Photo featured on page 17 of the Minidoka Incarceration Camp Photograph Album (csudh_ben_001). See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ben_01_001_018_058

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-32-32/

img Two women, one woman wearing a kimono (ddr-csujad-32-31)

Photograph of two women standing outside. One is Caucasian (possibly a teacher) and the other is Japanese American who is wearing a kimono and holding an umbrella. She is possibly Madame Fujima Kansuma's dance student. Photo featured on page 16 of the Minidoka Incarceration Camp Photograph Album (csudh_ben_001). See this object in the California State Universities …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-32-31/

img Woman wearing kimono (ddr-csujad-32-33)

Photograph of a woman wearing a kimono and holding an umbrella. She is possibly Madame Fujima Kansuma's dance student. Photo featured on page 17 of the Minidoka Incarceration Camp Photograph Album (csudh_ben_001). See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ben_01_001_018_059

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-32-33/

img Group of children at Minidoka incarceration camp (ddr-csujad-32-15)

Group photograph of children on risers, possibly for a play or event, at the Minidoka incarceration camp. Photo featured on page 7 of the Minidoka Incarceration Camp Photograph Album (csudh_ben_001). See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ben_01_001_008_025

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-32-15/

doc Happy New Year from Poston (ddr-csujad-35-27)

A New Year's card created in the Poston camp in Arizona. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: kuw_01_23_001

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-35-27/

doc Poston camp (ddr-csujad-35-8)

A a travel journal written by Kenji Kawabe of his time away from the Poston camp, Arizona from May 9 through June 2, 1944. He visited the Granada camp in Colorado and Salt Lake and the Topaz camp in Utah, meeting his friends and going sightseeing and shopping. See this object in the California State Universities …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-35-8/

img Photograph of people posing in front of a building at Manzanar (ddr-csujad-47-207)

Photograph of eleven people posing in front of a building at Manzanar incarceration camp. It is a group of ten women and one man. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ecm_merritt_0351

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-47-207/

img Photograph of landscape in Death Valley (ddr-csujad-47-124)

Photograph of Death Valley National Park. The foreground is very dark and a mountain range on the horizon and clouds filling the sky. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ecm_merritt_0209

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-47-124/

img Photograph of a rock field in the mountains near Manzanar (ddr-csujad-47-309)

Photograph of an unidentified rock field in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Manzanar incarceration camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ecm_merritt_0460

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-47-309/

img Photograph of Irene Gavigan, L. Josephine Hawes and Eleanor Thomas (ddr-csujad-47-304)

Photograph of Irene Gavigan, L. Josephine Hawes and Eleanor Thomas sitting in front of a stand of trees near the Manzanar incarceration camp at a hospital staff picnic. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ecm_merritt_0453

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-47-304/

img Photograph of a group of people enjoying Sunday dinner as a picnic at Manzanar (ddr-csujad-47-282)

Photograph of a group of people enjoying a Sunday dinner as a picnic at one of the parks at the Manzanar Incarceration Camp. The group consists of two children, three women and a man. There is another group of children in the upper left corner. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-47-282/

img Photograph of three people sitting on a bumper in a canyon in Death Valley (ddr-csujad-47-122)

Photograph of two women and a man sitting on the front bumper of a car in a canyon in Death Valley National Park. The license plate is "E024." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ecm_merritt_0207

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-47-122/

img Photograph of five adults and two children in Death Valley (ddr-csujad-47-119)

Photograph of five adults and two children in Death Valley National Park. The adults are sitting on a park bench and the two children are on a small wicker chair. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ecm_merritt_0204

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-47-119/

doc Letter from Leon C. High, Principal, to Mr. Harry Bentley Wells, May 15, 1943 (ddr-csujad-48-72)

Letter expressing High's regrets for being unable to attend the Ten Low class "get together." He commends Harry Bentley Wells on organizing the event and encourages them in the future though. Transcription is found in item: ecm_wells_9072. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ecm_wells_0072

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-48-72/

doc Manzanar from the inside (ddr-csujad-48-62)

Text of address by Roy Nash, Director of the Manzanar War Relocation Project, given to the Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco, on July 31, 1942 for the purpose of "interpret[ing] the actuality of a War Relocation Center housing 10,000 evacuees" in view of perceptions of mistreatment of incarcerees in California. Sections of the speech include …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-48-62/

doc Flower festival, April 4 '43 (ddr-csujad-48-73)

Program for the flower festival at Manzanar Incarceration Camp on April 4, 1943. Includes a program, Glory to the Buddha, and illustration of a flowering tree, also contains a Japanese translation. Transcription is found in item: ecm_wells_9073. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ecm_wells_0073

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-48-73/

img Nisei women standing outside a barrack (ddr-csujad-44-44)

A photograph of five young Nisei women incarcerated at Tule Lake, California. They are standing outside posing together for the camera. Barracks are visible behind them. Photo inscription on back: "Can you recognize me? -Mary." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: csumb_ms15_0044

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-44-44/

doc Center-wide picnic (ddr-csujad-45-75)

A list of the committee members for the camp wide picnic. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMRC_01-02_008

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-45-75/

doc Heart Mountain Relocation Project Fourth Community Council, 22nd session (April 13, 1945) (ddr-csujad-45-24)

The council minutes feature the a report on the plans for the camp wide picnic. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMRC_01-01_053

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-45-24/

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