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Japanese Americans making camouflage nets (ddr-densho-151-474)
img Japanese Americans making camouflage nets (ddr-densho-151-474)
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.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-474/
Japanese Americans working in garden (ddr-densho-151-371)
img Japanese Americans working in garden (ddr-densho-151-371)
Original 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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Field crew foreman (ddr-densho-151-390)
img Field crew foreman (ddr-densho-151-390)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Johnny Fukazawa, foreman of fields Numbers 3, 4, 5, and 6, heading a 20-man field crew on the farm project, says there are many problems they have to solve in their agricultural work at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-390/
Barracks with American flag (ddr-densho-151-57)
img Barracks with American flag (ddr-densho-151-57)
Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation center, Manzanar, California. Street scene of barrack homes at this War Relocation Authority Center. The windstorm has subsided and the dust has settled.
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Japanese Americans in front of barracks (ddr-densho-151-373)
img Japanese Americans in front of barracks (ddr-densho-151-373)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuees family of Japanese ancestry relax in front of their barrack room at the end of day. The father is a worker on the farm project at this War Relocaton Authority center. Note the chair which was made of scrap lumber, and the wooden shoes known as Getas made …
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Manzanar Free Press office (ddr-densho-151-478)
img Manzanar Free Press office (ddr-densho-151-478)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Staff of the Manzanar Free Press at work. This is the local mimeographed paper of happenings at this War Relocation Authority center published by evacuees interested in this work. Most of the items are written in English, with but one page translated into Japanese.
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Temporary hospital barracks (ddr-densho-151-70)
img Temporary hospital barracks (ddr-densho-151-70)
Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Emergency hospital housed in temporary quarters at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancesrty. The modern new hospital is almost ready for occupancy as shown in Photo C-851.
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Japanese Americans working in field (ddr-densho-151-391)
img Japanese Americans working in field (ddr-densho-151-391)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Field laborers hoeing corn on the farm project at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-391/
Concentration camp street scene (ddr-densho-93-25)
img Concentration camp street scene (ddr-densho-93-25)
Original Ansel Adams caption: Manzanar street scene, spring, Manzanar Relocation center / photograph by Ansel Adams.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-93-25/
Nurse with patient and others outside barracks (ddr-densho-93-3)
img Nurse with patient and others outside barracks (ddr-densho-93-3)
Original Ansel Adams caption: Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi and patient Tom Kano. Others: George Nakano, Keiko Kamahara. (Note: original caption contains misspelling, "Kamahara" should be, "Kawahara".)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-93-3/
Japanese American in a field (ddr-densho-93-12)
img Japanese American in a field (ddr-densho-93-12)
Original Ansel Adams caption: Tom Kobayashi, Landscape, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.
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High school recess (ddr-densho-93-40)
img High school recess (ddr-densho-93-40)
Original Ansel Adams caption: High school recess period, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.
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Japanese American in front of Christian church sign (ddr-densho-93-53)
img Japanese American in front of Christian church sign (ddr-densho-93-53)
Original Ansel Adams caption: Tatsuo Miyake (student of divinity) / photograph by Ansel Adams.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-93-53/
Posted work leave notice (ddr-densho-93-19)
img Posted work leave notice (ddr-densho-93-19)
Original Ansel Adams caption: Detail of work-offer board, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-93-19/
Butcher shop (ddr-densho-93-33)
img Butcher shop (ddr-densho-93-33)
Original Ansel Adams caption: Butcher shop, Manzanar Relocation Center / photograph by Ansel Adams.
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Education Week sign (ddr-densho-93-52)
img Education Week sign (ddr-densho-93-52)
Original Ansel Adams caption: Education week sign / photograph by Ansel Adams.
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Japanese Americans burning leaves (ddr-densho-93-30)
img Japanese Americans burning leaves (ddr-densho-93-30)
Original Ansel Adams caption: Burning leaves, autumn dawn, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.
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View from guard tower (ddr-densho-93-9)
img View from guard tower (ddr-densho-93-9)
Original Ansel Adams caption: Manzanar from Guard Tower, view west, (Sierra Nevada in Background) Manzanar Relocation Center, California.
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Baseball game (ddr-densho-93-37)
img Baseball game (ddr-densho-93-37)
Original Ansel Adams caption: Baseball game, Manzanar Relocation Center, Calif. / photograph by Ansel Adams.
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Cemetery monument (ddr-densho-93-22)
img Cemetery monument (ddr-densho-93-22)
Original Ansel Adams caption: Monument in cemetery, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.
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Japanese American making clothing patterns (ddr-densho-93-5)
img Japanese American making clothing patterns (ddr-densho-93-5)
Original Ansel Adams caption: Bert K. Miura (pattern making).
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-93-5/
Japanese American at baton practice (ddr-densho-93-10)
img Japanese American at baton practice (ddr-densho-93-10)
Original Ansel Adams caption: Baton practice, Florence Kuwata, Manzanar Relocation Center / photograph by Ansel Adams.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-93-10/
Calisthenics class (ddr-densho-93-48)
img Calisthenics class (ddr-densho-93-48)
Original Ansel Adams caption: Calesthenics [sic] / photograph by Ansel Adams.
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Japanese Americans sewing (ddr-densho-93-7)
img Japanese Americans sewing (ddr-densho-93-7)
Original Ansel Adams caption: Sumiko Shigematsu, foreman of power sewing machine girls, Manzanar Relocation Center, California.
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Hospital patient (ddr-densho-93-54)
img Hospital patient (ddr-densho-93-54)
Original Ansel Adams caption: Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi, Harry Sumida and Michael Yonemetsu [i.e. Yonemitsu] in hosposital [sic] / photograph by Ansel Adams. Harry Sumida rests his hand on an x-ray plate.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-93-54/
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