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Japanese American gardening (ddr-densho-36-35)
Japanese Americans tried hard to make life at the assembly center bearable. Here, a camp inmate tends to a garden.
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Arrival at the Puyallup Assembly Center (ddr-densho-36-32)
The Puyallup Assembly Center, which many camp inmates called "Camp Harmony," was on the site of the annual Western Washington Fair. The center was constructed in only seventeen days. Barracks were erected in converted livestock stalls near the parking lots and under the grandstand. Japanese Americans remained at the fairgrounds from April 28 to September 23,1942, …
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Letter from Bill to Tama (ddr-densho-383-554)
Advice on travelling to Minidoka from Camp Harmony, conditions at Minidoka and progress on building camp
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Printed copy of text of speech from 2004 Minidoka Reunion (ddr-densho-383-482)
Section II, Introduction to Puyallup, by Tama Tokuda, completed text of object ddr-densho-383-481
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Registration Officer's Certificate (ddr-densho-383-528)
Certifying that George Tokuda is registered to vote in his home precinct while in Camp Harmony
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Letter from Bill to Tama (ddr-densho-383-543)
Dated "2nd Night", describing living conditions at Camp Harmony
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Women and girls behind barbed wire at Camp Harmony (ddr-densho-383-464)
Tamako Inouye on far right. Written on back of photograph: "Camp Harmony, Puyallup, Washington, 1942".
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Letter from Nobutaka (probably Nobuko Yanagimachi) to Tamako Inouye (ddr-densho-383-556)
Re: conditions at Camp Harmony. Nobuko Yanagimachi was a fellow UW student and member of Fuyo-Kai
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Letter from Sueko Hasegawa (ddr-densho-383-555)
Written before Hasegawa was "evacuated" to Tamako in camp, probably Camp Harmony
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Memorandum to George Tokuda from A. Christine Pelegren (ddr-densho-383-530)
Re: scheduling volunteer donors for a blood drive at Camp Harmony
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Partial text of speech given at 2004 Minidoka Reunion (ddr-densho-383-481)
Describing the conditions at Camp Harmony and relocation day
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Transcription of diary from Camp Harmony and Minidoka (ddr-densho-383-625)
Some overlap with transcription in object 383-624
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Blank Staff directory from Headquarters Japanese Exclusion section 1 of Exclusion area A (ddr-densho-383-568)
Listing section leaders and staff
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Tamako Inouye's 1942 Diary (ddr-densho-383-627)
Tamako (Inouye) Tokuda's daily diary from 1942. She discusses forced removal from Seattle, time at Puyallup Assembly Center and time at Minidoka.