Minidoka

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Japanese American preparing lunch (ddr-densho-37-330)
img Japanese American preparing lunch (ddr-densho-37-330)
Original WRA caption: Dave K. Yoshida, from Seattle, Washington former Chef for Benjamin Franklin Hotel. Kitchen crew preparing lunch. Menu: Baked macaroni with Spanish sauce, spinach, pickled beets, bread-pudding, tea, bread & butter.
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Plowing land between barracks (ddr-densho-37-40)
img Plowing land between barracks (ddr-densho-37-40)
Original WRA caption: High school student plowing space between barrack-building classrooms in Block 23 to prepare ground for grass, flowers, and vegetables.
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Japanese Americans in Kogita garden (ddr-densho-37-737)
img Japanese Americans in Kogita garden (ddr-densho-37-737)
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Sweetheart of Minidoka and attendants (ddr-densho-37-674)
img Sweetheart of Minidoka and attendants (ddr-densho-37-674)
Original WRA caption: Sweetheart of Minidoka and her attendants chosen by popular vote in St. Valentine's Day contest sponsored by the Minidoka Irrigator, center newspaper. Standing left to right: Kiyoka Kumagai, Amy Hidaka, Mona Saito, Chickie Ishihara. Seated left to right: Misao Hayashida, Ise Inozuka, Mary Jane Kinoshita.
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Cabbage field (ddr-densho-37-48)
img Cabbage field (ddr-densho-37-48)
Original WRA caption: Cabbage field. Many incarceration camps raised livestock such as chickens and pigs, as well as vegetables, for camp consumption.
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Japanese American welding (ddr-densho-37-670)
img Japanese American welding (ddr-densho-37-670)
Original WRA caption: Member of the adult education welding class using portable outfit.
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Camp entrance guard station (ddr-densho-37-741)
img Camp entrance guard station (ddr-densho-37-741)
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WAC interview (ddr-densho-37-667)
img WAC interview (ddr-densho-37-667)
Original WRA caption: An evacuee girl is interviewed by three members of the WAC who visited the Minidoka Relocation Center to accept enlistment of Japanese-American girls.
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Poultry farm (ddr-densho-37-702)
img Poultry farm (ddr-densho-37-702)
Original WRA caption: Entrance to poultry farm showing fence constructed of snow fence.
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Military volunteers (ddr-densho-37-663)
img Military volunteers (ddr-densho-37-663)
Original WRA caption: Volunteers for induction into the U.S. Army to serve in a special combat team of Japanese-Americans. At foot of flag pole stand H.L. Stafford, project director and right, Philip Schafer, assistant project director.
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Co-op store (ddr-densho-37-739)
img Co-op store (ddr-densho-37-739)
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Elementary school flagpole dedication (ddr-densho-37-719)
img Elementary school flagpole dedication (ddr-densho-37-719)
Original WRA caption: Dedication of the flag pole at the Huntville Elementary School conducted by the Boy Scouts of the Hunt troop. The Huntville School is one of two elementary schools in the Minidoka Relocation Center.
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School buildings (ddr-densho-37-744)
img School buildings (ddr-densho-37-744)
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Minidoka concentration camp (ddr-densho-37-424)
img Minidoka concentration camp (ddr-densho-37-424)
Original WRA caption: Minidoka Relocation Center, Hunt, Idaho. Looking down at the rows of barracks westward from block 44. At extreme left is a corner of the dining hall where the 275 to 300 residents of the block eat. At center background is the sanitation building including showers, lavatories, toilets and washtubs. Nearly all the residents …
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Buddhist funeral service (ddr-densho-37-734)
img Buddhist funeral service (ddr-densho-37-734)
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Japanese Americans preparing for Christmas (ddr-densho-37-8)
img Japanese Americans preparing for Christmas (ddr-densho-37-8)
Original WRA caption: SANTA'S HELPERS--Through kind donations from thoughtful friends all over the United States, a happy and Merry Christmas will be possible for the children of Hunt. Thousands of presents have been sent in day after day, swamping Rec. 21 and overflowing the Federated Christian Church office.
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Japanese Americans harvesting corn (ddr-densho-37-711)
img Japanese Americans harvesting corn (ddr-densho-37-711)
Original WRA caption: Harvesting the first corn crop at the Minidoka Relocation Center from fields which were covered with sagebrush last spring. Note the sleeves and the cloth and head cloth work by the evacuee woman on the left to protect her from the sun.
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Camp staff housing (ddr-densho-37-659)
img Camp staff housing (ddr-densho-37-659)
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Japanese American clearing land (ddr-densho-37-707)
img Japanese American clearing land (ddr-densho-37-707)
Original WRA caption: An evacuee drives a heavy tractor pulling a triangle of heavy railroad irons breaking off sagebrush. This is one of the methods of clearing off land of the sagebrush adjacent to the Minidoka Relocation Center.
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Japanese Americans clearing a field (ddr-densho-37-698)
img Japanese Americans clearing a field (ddr-densho-37-698)
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Minidoka concentration camp new arrivals (ddr-densho-37-757)
img Minidoka concentration camp new arrivals (ddr-densho-37-757)
Original WRA caption: High school teachers assist arriving evacuees from the Tule Lake Relocation Center.
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Japanese Americans plowing a field (ddr-densho-37-704)
img Japanese Americans plowing a field (ddr-densho-37-704)
Original WRA caption: A tractor drawn disk breaks up soil of a new farm field from the sagebrush adjacent to the Minidoka Relocation Center.
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Japanese American preparing a garden (ddr-densho-37-720)
img Japanese American preparing a garden (ddr-densho-37-720)
Original WRA caption: High school student plowing space between barrack building classrooms in Block 23 to prepare ground for grass, flowers, and vegetables.
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Japanese Americans working outside barracks (ddr-densho-37-721)
img Japanese Americans working outside barracks (ddr-densho-37-721)
Original WRA caption: High school students clean up around their classroom barrack.
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Registration of camp transferees (ddr-densho-37-56)
img Registration of camp transferees (ddr-densho-37-56)
Original WRA caption: Transferees from Tule Lake Relocation Center being registered for housing immediately after inspection of baggage. It was arranged so that the people arriving by truck from the rail siding unloaded their baggage for inspection and received their housing assignments at the same time and then got back on the trucks for delivery to …
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