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img Boy Scout band at Topaz (Central Utah) concentration camp (ddr-densho-22-463)

This Boy Scout band greets Japanese Americans arriving from Hawai'i.

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img Joseph and Mary Ann Sakamoto (ddr-fom-1-910)

WRA caption on reverse: "Joseph Gerald Osamu Sakamoto, 80, and Mary Ann Tsuchi Sakamoto, 80, on their golden wedding anniversary, Dec. 11, 1943, at the Minidoka Relocation Center, Hunt, Idaho. Mr. and Mrs. Sakamoto came to the United States from Japan in 1894. He was the first Japanese second-hand furniture store proprietor, first Japanese express man …

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img Auto mechanic class (ddr-fom-1-906)

WRA caption on reverse: "Adult education class in auto mechanics."

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img People transferred from Tule Lake registering for housing (ddr-fom-1-917)

WRA caption on reverse: "Tranferees from Tule Lake Relocation Center being registered for housing immediately after inspection of baggage. It was arranged so that the people arriving by truck from the rail siding unloaded their baggage for inspection and received their housing assignments at the same time and then got back on the trucks for delivery …

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img View down a street in Minidoka (ddr-fom-1-911)

WRA caption on reverse: "Looking down a street of the Minidoka Relocation Center. A service flag with two stars can be seen in the window of the first room in the barrack at extreme right."

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img Minidoka under construction (ddr-fom-1-897)

WRA caption on reverse: "A panorama view of the Minidoka War Relocation Authority center. This view, taken from the top of the water tower at the east end of the camp, shows partially completed barracks."

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img Flag dedication (ddr-fom-1-907)

WRA caption on reverse: "Dedication of the project flag and flag pole in the administration area conducted by Hunt Boy Scouts. Attended by representatives of American Legion post of Twin Falls, Idaho, civic officials of Twin Falls and Jerome, Idaho, and the Military Police Escort Guarge Company. At left is high school choir. At right are …

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img Men at work in the radio repair shop (ddr-fom-1-841)

WRA caption on reverse: "General view-Radio Repair shop."

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img Welding class (ddr-fom-1-902)

WRA caption on reverse: "Members of adult education welding class using portable outfit."

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img Minidoka under construction (ddr-fom-1-900)

WRA caption on reverse: "A panorama view of the Minidoka War Relocation Authority center. This view, taken from the top of the water tower at the east end of the camp, shows partially completed barracks."

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img Central corridor of the Minidoka hospital (ddr-fom-1-851)

WRA caption on reverse: "Hospital series / Central corridor."

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img Unloading luggage (ddr-fom-1-887)

WRA caption on reverse: "The baggage of approximately six hundred evacuees from the assembly center at Puyallup, Washington, is taken from the train by truck to their new homes at the Minidoka War Relocation Authority Center."

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img View of a farm growing beans (ddr-fom-1-890)

WRA caption on reverse: "A view of a farm a few miles south of the Minidoka War Relocation Authority center. Beans are growing in the foreground."

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img Customers gathered around the stove at the Block 30 Community Store (ddr-fom-1-873)

WRA caption on reverse: "Community store block 30. Customers warming hands by stove."

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img Minidoka under construction (ddr-fom-1-901)

WRA caption on reverse: "A panorama view of the Minidoka War Relocation Authority center. This view, taken from the top of the water tower at the east end of the camp, shows partially completed barracks."

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img Minidoka under construction (ddr-fom-1-896)

WRA caption on reverse: "A panorama view of the Minidoka War Relocation Authority center. This view, taken from the top of the water tower at the east end of the camp, shows partially completed barracks."

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img A recreation hall set up to house people transferred from Tule Lake (ddr-fom-1-913)

WRA caption on reverse: "Recreation Hall in which moveable screens were set up to provide bedrooms for Tule Lake transferees due to shortage of regular barrack space."

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img Minidoka under construction (ddr-fom-1-898)

WRA caption on reverse: "A panorama view of the Minidoka War Relocation Authority center. This view, taken from the top of the water tower at the east end of the camp, shows partially completed barracks."

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img The Minidoka swimming hole (ddr-fom-1-905)

WRA caption on reverse: "Swimming hole located south of warehouse are adjacent to the North Side Irrigation Canal which may be seen at upper right. Water flows from canal into pool and back out again. The average depth of pool is 6 feet."

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img Dentist, Dr. T. Nakamura, working on a patient's teeth (ddr-fom-1-855)

WRA caption on reverse: "Hospital series / Dental laboratory."

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img Incarcerees transferring from trains to buses on their way to Minidoka (ddr-fom-1-889)

WRA caption on reverse: "This evacuee has just arrived by train with 600 others from the Puyallup assembly center and is boarding one of the waiting buses for the Minidoka War Relocation Authority center."

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img View of a farm growing beans (ddr-fom-1-891)

WRA caption on reverse: "A view of a farm a few miles south of the Minidoka War Relocation Authority center. Beans are growing in the foreground."

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img View of a farm growing beans (ddr-fom-1-892)

WRA caption on reverse: "A view of a farm a few miles south of the Minidoka War Relocation Authority center. Beans are growing in the foreground."

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img Man standing next to the Minidoka trash incinerator (ddr-fom-1-859)

WRA caption on reverse: "Trash incenerator [sic] for entire camp. (Dillon Myer wanted a picture of this)."

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img People transferred from Tule Lake registering for housing (ddr-fom-1-916)

WRA caption on reverse: "Tranferees from Tule Lake Relocation Center being registered for housing immediately after inspection of baggage. It was arranged so that the people arriving by truck from the rail siding unloaded their baggage for inspection and received their housing assignments at the same time and then got back on the trucks for delivery …

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