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img Two Nisei outside a barrack (ddr-densho-124-23)

(L to R): Connie Tamura, Mary Hori.

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img Two children on tractor (ddr-densho-136-20)

Yosh and Mary Tamura are playing on a tractor at their Union Bay farm in Seattle. This farm is located on what is now a shopping mall named the University Village.

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img Hanamatsuri (birth of Buddha celebration) Odori Performance (ddr-one-1-403)

Black and white photographic negative of an Odori folk dance performance on the stage for Hanamatsuri (birth of Buddha celebration) at Oregon Buddhist Church (now known as the Oregon Buddhist Temple). From left to right: Mary (Nakata) Fujii, Shiz (Fujita) Inaba, Hanako Terakawa Tamura, unidentified, and Sakae Kobayashi.

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vh Mary Haruka Nakamura Interview Segment 4 (ddr-one-7-65-4)

Attending elementary school and Japanese language school

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vh Mary Haruka Nakamura Interview Segment 8 (ddr-one-7-65-8)

Hearing about the bombing of Pearl Harbor

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vh Mary Haruka Nakamura Interview Segment 13 (ddr-one-7-65-13)

Meeting future husband and getting married in camp

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vh Mary Haruka Nakamura Interview Segment 15 (ddr-one-7-65-15)

Leaving camp and raising family in Ontario, Oregon

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vh Mary Haruka Nakamura Interview Segment 10 (ddr-one-7-65-10)

Living independently from parents in camp

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vh Mary Haruka Nakamura Interview Segment 2 (ddr-one-7-65-2)

Parents' early life in O'Brien, Washington

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vh Mary Haruka Nakamura Interview Segment 14 (ddr-one-7-65-14)

Having a baby in camp

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vh Mary Haruka Nakamura Interview Segment 1 (ddr-one-7-65-1)

Family background

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vh Mary Haruka Nakamura Interview Segment 5 (ddr-one-7-65-5)

Moving to Kent, Washington, where father established a grocery store

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vh Mary Haruka Nakamura Interview Segment 3 (ddr-one-7-65-3)

Helping out on family's strawberry farm

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vh Mary Haruka Nakamura Interview Segment 9 (ddr-one-7-65-9)

First impressions of the Pinedale Assembly Center

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vh Mary Haruka Nakamura Interview Segment 7 (ddr-one-7-65-7)

Mother passes away in 1940

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vh Mary Haruka Nakamura Interview Segment 12 (ddr-one-7-65-12)

Temporarily leaving camp to work in Weiser, Idaho

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vh Mary Haruka Nakamura Interview Segment 11 (ddr-one-7-65-11)

Memories of the Tule Lake concentration camp, California

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vh Mary Haruka Nakamura Interview Segment 16 (ddr-one-7-65-16)

Reflections

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vh Mary Haruka Nakamura Interview Segment 6 (ddr-one-7-65-6)

Prewar recreational activities, kenjinkai picnics

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vh Mary Haruka Nakamura Interview (ddr-one-7-65)

Nisei female. Born March 21, 1924, in O'Brien, Washington. Grew up in the Auburn/Kent area of Washington, where parents ran a farm and then a grocery store. During World War II, removed to the Pinedale Assembly Center, California, and the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. After leaving camp, settled in Ontario, Oregon.

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img Oregon Buddhist Church 50th Anniversary Celebration Procession (ddr-one-1-49)

Color slide of procession in front of the US Customs House in Northwest Portland. Women in brightly colored kimonos or yukatas form two lines. Followed by four more women in somber colored kimonos or yukatas. Procession from left to right: Betty Nakashimada, Atsuko "Alice" (Matsumoto) Ando, Jean Matsumoto, Kathleen "Kathie" Haruko (Matsuda) Sato, Aki (Shiraishi) Dong, …

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img Christmas pageant at Japanese Community Hall (ddr-densho-259-179)

Caption in Japanese at top of photograph: "Iwa Kurisumasu [Christmas celebration]." Caption by Homer Yasui: "A Christmas pageant which was performed by the Nisei members of the Hood River Japanese Methodist Church The girl second left looks like Mika Asai to mel and it might have been Jessie Iwatsuki holding the star on the stick. I …

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img Tea ceremony demonstration (ddr-densho-259-135)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "[Shidzuyo Yasui] teaching a tea ceremony class at the [Hood River] Japanese Community Hall. Most of the women are dressed in kimono, but all of them probably had been taking lessons."

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img Young People's Christian Conference (ddr-densho-259-365)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "I think that this gathering took place in front of what was then called the Centenary Wilbur Methodist Church, in Portland I suspect that this was a YPCC--Young People's Christian Conference--because many of the Nisei are wearing identification badges."

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doc Coast Jap Evacuees Tell Of New Life in Own Paper (October 4, 1942) (ddr-densho-56-848)

The Seattle Daily Times, October 4, 1942, p. 8

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