ddr-densho-37 — National Archives and Records Administration Collection — Objects

img Women playing softball (ddr-densho-37-332)

Original WRA caption: "Manzanar, California. [Unreadable] life goes between work hours for Japanese evacuees living at the Manzanar relocation center. Maye Noma crouches behind the plate as [unreadable] goes to bat in a practice game between members of a Los Angeles softball team which came intact to camp." Part of the WRA caption was covered by …

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img Redress hearings (ddr-densho-37-333)

The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) was created by an act of Congress on July 30, 1980. The committee was formed mainly to investigate matters surrounding the World War II internment of Japanese Americans and to recommend remedies. The CWRIC had no power to correct grievances. The hearings were conducted in twenty …

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img Redress hearings (ddr-densho-37-334)

The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) was created by an act of Congress on July 30, 1980. The committee was formed mainly to investigate matters surrounding the World War II internment of Japanese Americans and to recommend remedies. The CWRIC had no power to correct grievances. The hearings were conducted in twenty …

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img Redress hearings (ddr-densho-37-335)

The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) was created by an act of Congress on July 30, 1980. The committee was formed mainly to investigate matters surrounding the World War II internment of Japanese Americans and to recommend remedies. The CWRIC had no power to correct grievances. The hearings were conducted in twenty …

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img Military Intelligence Service (ddr-densho-37-336)

Original caption: "Left, Tec. Sgt. Herbert Miyasaki, Paaulid, Hawaii, right, Tec. Sgt. Akiji Yoshimura, Colusa, Calif., American-Japanese interpreter with Brig. Gen. Frank Merrill's Infantry troops in Northern Burma. 5/1/44." Town in Hawaii may actually be Paauilo.

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img Nisei soldiers (ddr-densho-37-337)

Original caption: A Japanese-American Combat Team moves through town. 11/23/44.

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img Nisei soldiers (ddr-densho-37-339)

Original caption: The standards of Company A, B, C, and D of the 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regiment, 34th Division, composed of Americans of Japanese descent, are topped with flying battle streamers, awarded through a presidential citation, tied on by Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark, CG, U.S. Fifth Army. Rosignano Area, Italy, 7/27/44.

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img Nisei soldiers (ddr-densho-37-343)

Original caption: Cpl. Edward Nakamura, Honolulu, T.H., Gunner, No. 1 Cannoneer; Pvt. Suehiko Yoshida, Puunene, T.H., No. 2 Cannoneer; and Pfc. Mamoru Yonashiro, Oahu, T.H., Telephone Operator, all of [the] 522nd Field Artillery, 442nd Inf. Regt., 34th Div., L to R, are at a 105-mm howitzer firing at the enemy in the battle for Leghorn, Italy. …

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img Butcher house (ddr-densho-37-347)

Original WRA caption: A view in the slaughter house and butcher shop. Hogs, which are grown in the evacuee run hog farm, are slaughtered here, for consumption by the residents of the center.

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img Japanese Americans unloading coal (ddr-densho-37-348)

Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Evacuee workers unload coal at Staley Junction, which is the rail head for this center. This coal is used by the residents during the extreamely [sic] cold winters which northern California offers.

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img Muddy conditions (ddr-densho-37-349)

Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Thaws turn the streets and firebreaks into seas of mud, and makes difficult motor transportation through the center.

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img Muddy conditions (ddr-densho-37-350)

Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Thaws turn the streets and firebreaks into seas of mud, and makes difficult motor transportation through the center.

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img Winter in camp (ddr-densho-37-351)

Original WRA caption: A winter time scene looking east down the main fire break.

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img Camp building fire (ddr-densho-37-352)

Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Quick work, by the evacuee Fire Department, kept the fire, which broke out in the office located at the old hog farm, from doing other than minor damage.

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img Japanese Americans cutting seed potatoes (ddr-densho-37-353)

Original WRA caption: Seed potato cutting at the cutting sheds of the Tule Lake Relocation Center farm. 7,500 sacks of potatoes will be cut by 48 workers in 2-1/2 weeks. This will be enough seeds to plant the 600 acres.

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img Newsreel cameramen in camp (ddr-densho-37-354)

Original WRA caption: (L to R) Frank Vail newsreel cameraman for Pathe and Joe Rucker of Paramount photograph boundary markers.

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img Newsreel and newspaper cameramen in camp (ddr-densho-37-355)

Original WRA caption: Newsreel cameramen and newspaper cameramen from the San Francisco newspapers photograph potatoe planting on the farm at the Tule Lake Relocation Center.

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img Japanese American and handmade cabinet (ddr-densho-37-357)

Original caption: Shinkichi Kiyono, 56, evacuee from Longview, Washington, exhibits the cabinet which won him first prize (a carpenter's plane) in a furniture building contest. All pieces of furniture were made from scrap lumber.

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img Japanese American carpenter building furniture (ddr-densho-37-358)

Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Shinkichi Kiyono, 56, carpenter-evacuee from Longview, Washington, is shown using a carpenter's plane which he won as first prize in a furniture contest conducted among the evacuees of Japanese descent at this War Relocation Authority center.

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img Camp store (ddr-densho-37-359)

Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. A view showing the recently completed Store Number 2 at this War Relocation Authority center.

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img Japanese Americans distributing scrap lumber (ddr-densho-37-360)

Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Evacuees distribute scrap lumber to each block. This scrap will be used by the residents to construct furniture for their apartments and also for firewood.

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img Bank and newsstand (ddr-densho-37-361)

Original WRA caption: A view of the bank and newsstand at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. The bank is open on Tuesdays and Fridays only.

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