Manzanar

img Students studying in shade (ddr-densho-151-365)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. An elementary school with voluntary attendance has been established with volunteer evacuee teachers, most of whom are college graduates. No school equipment is as yet obtainable and available tables and benches are used. However, classes are often held in the shade of the barrack building.

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img Japanese Americans tending crops (ddr-densho-151-35)

Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry are growing flourishing truck crops for their own use in their "hobby gardens." These crops are grown in plots 10 x 50 feet between blocks of barrack at this War Relocation Authority Center.

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img Japanese American getting a haircut (ddr-densho-151-403)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Little evacuee of Japanese ancestry gets a haircut.

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img Gravestone (ddr-densho-151-440)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. The first grave at the Manzanar Center's cemetery. It is that of Matsunosuke Murakami, 62, who died of heart disease on May 16. He had been ill ever since he arrived here with the first contingent and had been confined to the hospital since March 23.

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img Students studying in shade (ddr-densho-151-362)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Young sixth-grade students studying their lessons in the shade of the barracks at this first voluntary elementary school.

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img Japanese American reading in library (ddr-densho-151-436)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. A corner in the library at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. This section contains books in the Japanese lanuage, most of which are translations of English classics.

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img Japanese Americans clearing brush (ddr-densho-151-388)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. More land is being cleared of sage brush at the southern end of the project to enlarge this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

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img Manzanar concentration camp, California (ddr-densho-151-64)

Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. View of the Manzanar Relocation Center showing the buildings (right) where camouflage nets are made.

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img Grandfather and grandson (ddr-densho-151-51)

Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Grandfather and grandson of Japanese ancestry at this War Relocation Authority center.

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img Japanese Americans gardening (ddr-densho-151-65)

Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry are growing flourishing truck crops for their own use in their "hobby gardens". These crops are grown in plots 10 x 50 feet between blocks of barrack at this War Relocation Authority center.

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img Hospital bed near latrine (ddr-densho-151-475)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Hospital latrines, for patients, between the barracks, which serve temporarily as wards. For the first three months of occupancy medical facilities have been meager but the new hospital fully equipped, is almost ready for occupancy.

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img Dental clinic (ddr-densho-151-420)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. The dental clinic in its temporary quarters at this War Relocation Authority center cares for an average of 100 evacuees daily.

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img Elementary school class (ddr-densho-151-361)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. These young evacuees are attending the first elementary school at this War Relocation Authority center. There are six grades with volunteer teachers and voluntary attendance.

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img Japanese Americans making camouflage nets (ddr-densho-151-408)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Making camouflage nets for the War Department. This is one of several War and Navy Department projects carried on by persons of Japanese ancestry in relocation centers.

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img Mealtime in mess hall (ddr-densho-151-432)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Mealtime in one of the messhalls at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

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img Japanese American being interviewed (ddr-densho-151-429)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. A complete record, by personal interview, is being made of every evacuee of Japanese ancestry at this War Relocation Authority center.

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img Japanese American examining guayule plants (ddr-densho-151-385)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. George J. Yokomizo, hybridizer for the guayule rubber experiment project.

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img Japanese American spraying hose (ddr-densho-151-428)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Fire equipment is uesd to keep the dust down at this War Relocation Authoriy center.

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img Japanese American doctor examining patient (ddr-densho-151-422)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Doctor Takahashi, Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist, lances sty on very young patient in the medical clinic at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

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img Japanese Americans working in field (ddr-densho-151-445)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Ichiro Okumura, 22 (left), from Venice, California and Ben Iguchi, 20 from Sangus, California, thin young plants in a two-acre field of white radishes at the relocation center. High sierras are shown in the background.

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img Japanese American working in garden (ddr-densho-151-372)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuee in her "hobby garden" which rates highest of all the garden plots at this War Relocation Authority center. Vegetables for their own use are grown in plots 10 x 50 feet between rows of barracks.

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img Japanese Americans playing baseball (ddr-densho-151-394)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Baseball players in a huddle. This game is very popular with 80 teams having been formed to date. Most of the playing is done in the wide firebreak between blocks of barracks.

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img Japanese Americans watching baseball game (ddr-densho-151-392)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuees watching a baseball game at this War Relocation Authority center. This is a very popular recreation with 80 teams having been formed throughout the Center. Most of the playing is done between the barrack blocks.

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