Minidoka

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Japanese American pointing at Honor Roll sign (ddr-densho-37-748)
img Japanese American pointing at Honor Roll sign (ddr-densho-37-748)
Original WRA caption: Fumi Onodera, 20, proudly points at the names of her 3 brothers, Kid, 26; Kaun, 24; and Satoru, 22, on the Honor Roll of Japanese-Americans serving in the U. S. Army from the Minidoka Relocation Center, Hunt, Idaho. The 3 brothers are training in a combat team at Camp Shelby, Mississippi with other …
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Japanese Americans harvesting beans (ddr-densho-37-38)
img Japanese Americans harvesting beans (ddr-densho-37-38)
Original WRA caption: Harvesting pole beans in a field adjacent to the Minidoka Relocation Center.
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Man walking in field (ddr-densho-37-696)
img Man walking in field (ddr-densho-37-696)
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Camp hospital (ddr-densho-37-37)
img Camp hospital (ddr-densho-37-37)
Original WRA caption: High school students working part time as nurses' aides in the hospital and as orderlies.
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Concentration camp new arrivals (ddr-densho-37-52)
img Concentration camp new arrivals (ddr-densho-37-52)
Original WRA caption: A family from Tule Lake Center arrives at their new home and is welcomed by residents of the block.
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First Communion class (ddr-densho-37-683)
img First Communion class (ddr-densho-37-683)
Original WRA caption: First Communion class of Catholic Church at Minidoka Relocation Center, Hunt, Idaho. The Rev. L.H. Tibesar, Maryknoll Missionary, is pastor. The nuns are Maryknoll sisters from the Maryknoll Mission in Seattle where the Maryknoll group numbered 1000 Japanese Catholics and non-Catholics before evacuation.
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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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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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King of Hunt High School (ddr-densho-37-3)
img King of Hunt High School (ddr-densho-37-3)
Original WRA caption: King of Hunt High School May Day festival being crowned by Richard A. Pomeroy, Supt. of Education, is shown with his attendants. The court was chosen by popular vote in a contest sponsored by the student body. Left to right: Prince Victor Fujioka, princess Dorothy Sugawara, Mr. Pomeroy, King Johnny Okamoto, Princess Sue …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-3/
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 American carpenters (ddr-densho-37-41)
img Japanese American carpenters (ddr-densho-37-41)
Original WRA caption: Carpenters at work on the high school gym.
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Japanese Americans at the library (ddr-densho-37-44)
img Japanese Americans at the library (ddr-densho-37-44)
Original WRA caption: A interesting display of books containing information of value to persons planning to relocate was put up in the community library, Rec. 24, this week. Shown here with the display are H. Nagai, Japanese section librarian, and Elsie Hosogi, assistant Japanese section librarian. The library has numerous books containing information about various sections …
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Japanese Americans relocating to a different camp (ddr-densho-37-57)
img Japanese Americans relocating to a different camp (ddr-densho-37-57)
Original WRA caption: Boy accompanying his parents to the Tule Lake Center looks out a window of the special train which carried 254 transferees from the Minidoka 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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Family inside barracks (ddr-densho-37-662)
img Family inside barracks (ddr-densho-37-662)
Original WRA caption: "Horizontal Hank" Hank Gosho and Baby
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High school graduation (ddr-densho-37-33)
img High school graduation (ddr-densho-37-33)
Original WRA caption: Students of the Hunt High School dress in caps and gowns for Commencement exercises.
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Japanese American typing (ddr-densho-37-688)
img Japanese American typing (ddr-densho-37-688)
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Co-op canteen (ddr-densho-37-50)
img Co-op canteen (ddr-densho-37-50)
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Japanese American baggage (ddr-densho-37-426)
img Japanese American baggage (ddr-densho-37-426)
Original WRA caption: Eden, Idaho. The baggage, belonging to evacuees who have just arrived from the assembly center at Puyallup, Washington, is sorted and trucked to their barrack apartments.
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Flooded conditions (ddr-densho-37-690)
img Flooded conditions (ddr-densho-37-690)
Original WRA caption: Flooded area east of Block 3.
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Funeral for fallen soldiers (ddr-densho-37-743)
img Funeral for fallen soldiers (ddr-densho-37-743)
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Japanese Americans relocating to a different camp (ddr-densho-37-61)
img Japanese Americans relocating to a different camp (ddr-densho-37-61)
Original WRA caption: Baggage of Tule Lake transferees sorted and piled accordingly at Hunt siding. Most of the baggage was delivered to the owners the same day.
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Japanese Americans in front of remodeled barrack (ddr-densho-37-51)
img Japanese Americans in front of remodeled barrack (ddr-densho-37-51)
Japanese Americans tried to make camp life more tolerable in many creative ways, such as renovating their barracks.
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