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Group photo at Heart Mountain concentration camp (ddr-densho-321-79)
img Group photo at Heart Mountain concentration camp (ddr-densho-321-79)
Captioned: "Ht. Mtn. 1944."
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-321-79/
Japanese Americans purchasing camp newspaper (ddr-densho-37-458)
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.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-458/
Camp Boy Scouts (ddr-densho-37-427)
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.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-427/
Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming (ddr-densho-37-795)
img Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming (ddr-densho-37-795)
Original WRA caption: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. "Symbolic Heart Mountain towers at the end of "F" Street, the main thoroughfare of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center."
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Japanese American family (ddr-densho-37-429)
img Japanese American family (ddr-densho-37-429)
Original WRA caption: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Bill Hosokawa, Editor of the Sentinel, Heart Mountain Relocation Center newspaper, and the Nisei leader in center activities, and American citizen, a graduate of the University of Washington, former West Coast reporter and foreign correspondent. Bill has traveled throughout the Orient, has lived in Tokyo and …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-429/
Departure from camp (ddr-densho-37-430)
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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Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming (ddr-densho-37-796)
img Heart Mountain concentration camp, 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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Japanese Americans working on camp newspaper (ddr-densho-37-459)
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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Japanese American working on camp newspaper (ddr-densho-37-461)
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 …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-461/
Japanese Americans creating an ice skating rink (ddr-densho-37-794)
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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Japanese American working on camp newspaper (ddr-densho-37-460)
img Japanese American working on camp newspaper (ddr-densho-37-460)
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 Center newspaper, sets type for the final makeup of the weekly edition. Bill, a former foreign correspondent and Washington U. graduate, sets type, pulls proofs, operates the linotype, locks …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-460/
Japanese American working in a field (ddr-densho-37-793)
img Japanese American working in a field (ddr-densho-37-793)
Original WRA caption: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Land cleared of sagebrush last fall and corrugated against wind erosion. Assistant Farm Superintendent, Eiichi Sakauye, checking the moisture for early spring crop planting.
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Japanese American couple (ddr-densho-37-466)
img Japanese American couple (ddr-densho-37-466)
Original WRA caption: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Alice and Bill Hosokawa, young Americans of Japanese ancestry now residing at Heart Mountain. Bill, whose father came to the United States many years ago is a recognized Nisei leader, a graduate of the University of Washington, West coast newspaper man, foreign correspondent for the Shanghai …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-466/
Japanese American playing a board game (ddr-densho-37-428)
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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Hospital emergency entrance and ambulance (ddr-densho-37-797)
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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Midori Kamei Interview (ddr-densho-400-11)
av Midori Kamei Interview (ddr-densho-400-11)
Midori Kamei was born on July 21, 1923, in Redondo Beach, California. She grew up in North Torrance where her parents farmed. Kamei was imprisoned briefly with her family at the Santa Anita Race Track in California and at the concentration camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Kamei left Heart Mountain to attend college in Colorado. She …
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Letter from Alvin Uchiyama to Kathleen Koga Uchiyama (ddr-densho-406-54)
doc Letter from Alvin Uchiyama to Kathleen Koga Uchiyama (ddr-densho-406-54)
Hope that she is settled with her parents.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-406-54/
Letter from Alvin Uchiyama to Kathleen Koga Uchiyama (ddr-densho-406-71)
doc Letter from Alvin Uchiyama to Kathleen Koga Uchiyama (ddr-densho-406-71)
Hasn't had a shower for three weeks, worrying about what people at Heart Mountain are saying about the trouble he got into, sorry that he will never be promoted
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-406-71/
Letter from Alvin Uchiyama to Kathleen Koga Uchiyama (ddr-densho-406-53)
doc Letter from Alvin Uchiyama to Kathleen Koga Uchiyama (ddr-densho-406-53)
To Kathleen at Heart Mountain, asks about their friend Frank, whether Yuri (Aileen) is having fun with other kids.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-406-53/
Letter from Alvin Uchiyama to Kathleen Koga Uchiyama (ddr-densho-406-70)
doc Letter from Alvin Uchiyama to Kathleen Koga Uchiyama (ddr-densho-406-70)
Sending money to his mother, asking about others at Heart Mountain
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Telegram from Alvin to Kathleen addressed to Heart Mountain saying he will arrive December 23 (ddr-densho-406-84)
doc Telegram from Alvin to Kathleen addressed to Heart Mountain saying he will arrive December 23 (ddr-densho-406-84)
No year shown, and but he did not come to Heart Mountain after Kathleen returned there in 1944. Possible from when Kathleen was first at Heart Mountain?
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-406-84/
Letter from Uhachi Tamesa to Min Tamesa (ddr-densho-333-5)
doc Letter from Uhachi Tamesa to Min Tamesa (ddr-densho-333-5)
Letter to Min about bank book and finances
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-333-5/
Letter from Uhachi Tamesa to Min Tamesa (ddr-densho-333-16)
doc Letter from Uhachi Tamesa to Min Tamesa (ddr-densho-333-16)
Letter to Min at Leavenworth about Fair Play Committee trial
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-333-16/
Letter from Uhachi Tamesa to H.E. Nims (ddr-densho-333-13)
doc Letter from Uhachi Tamesa to H.E. Nims (ddr-densho-333-13)
Letter about the Tamesa orchard
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-333-13/
Letter from Uhachi Tamesa to Min Tamesa (ddr-densho-333-12)
doc Letter from Uhachi Tamesa to Min Tamesa (ddr-densho-333-12)
Letter about the Tamesa orchard
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-333-12/
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