Heart Mountain

doc Western Union Telegram to Domoto Family from Kunimatsu and Jack Tanimoto (ddr-densho-329-663)

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img Japanese Americans working on camp newspaper (ddr-densho-37-459)

Original WRA caption: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Trimming the assembled Sentinels is George Tokoshige, while Reports Officer Vaughn Mechau and Sentianl Editor, Bill Hosokawa check for the hundredth time for possible makeup or printing errors.

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img Cody, Wyoming (ddr-densho-37-796)

Original WRA caption: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Looking west over the Heart Mountain Relocation Center with its sentry name sake, Heart Mountain, on the horizon.

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img Departure from camp (ddr-densho-37-430)

Original WRA caption: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Reversing the scenes of nearly three years ago when ttrian after train brought more than 11,000 evacuees from the West Coast. Heart Mountain residents now are bidding goodbye to friends and neigbors as they return to their homes or depart for new homes and work throughtout …

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img Japanese Americans creating an ice skating rink (ddr-densho-37-794)

Original WRA caption: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. A crew of firemen and volunteer helpers man the fire hose in flooding an ice skating rink at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center.

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img Japanese American working on camp newspaper (ddr-densho-37-461)

Original WRA caption: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. In the press room of the Cody Enterprise, Bill Hosokawa, Editor of the Sentinel, Heart Mountain Relocation newspaper, pulls a galley proof. Aside from being editor of the paper, Bill, on press night, sets type, prepares makeup, locks forms, and performs all the tasks pertinent to …

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img Japanese American playing a board game (ddr-densho-37-428)

Original WRA caption: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. An early immigrant from Japan, now residing at Heart Mountain, after evacuation from West Coast areas, reaches for a pawn in a game of Shogi, similar in characters and playing to chess. Although previously mumbling in Japanese, startled by the camera flas, the old gent let …

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img Hospital emergency entrance and ambulance (ddr-densho-37-797)

Original WRA caption: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Scene at the emergancy entrance of the Heart Mountain Hospital, as obstetrics case is brought in.

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img Camp Boy Scouts (ddr-densho-37-427)

Original WRA caption: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Boy Scouts conducting a morning flag raising ceremony at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center. Where persons of Japanese ancestry, evacuated from West Coast defennse areas, now reside.

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img Japanese Americans purchasing camp newspaper (ddr-densho-37-458)

Original WRA caption: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Customers line up at the counter as the Sentinel, Heart Mountain Relocation Center 8 page tabloid newspaper is delivered. Center news and views found in the Sentinel pages is enthusiastically accepted by center residents of Japanese ancestry, evcauated from west coast defense areas.

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