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Japanese American shoveling coal into a heater (ddr-densho-15-72)
Camp inmate shoveling coal into the block's central heater, which will warm water for the laundry and bath facilities.
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North side of the Minidoka concentration camp (ddr-densho-15-45)
This is possibly Block 16 of the Minidoka concentration camp. The long building on the left was the recreational hall. The torii, or bird perch, on the right was made by camp inmates. A row of barracks is in the background.
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Family in camp (ddr-densho-15-53)
Ben Ikeda is second from left and his brother, Robert, is next to him. To the far right is their youngest brother, name unknown.
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Japanese Americans carrying plywood (ddr-densho-15-55)
Yoneko Tanaka (left) and Norio Mitsuoka carry away lumber to make furniture.
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Two Japanese Americans inside barracks (ddr-densho-15-60)
Mrs. Shioshi (left) and Mrs. Odoi inside camp barracks. Both had sons in the military.
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Two children outside barracks (ddr-densho-15-49)
Two of Hana Matsuo's children pose with the fire-station dog.
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Japanese American preparing meal (ddr-densho-15-70)
Jim Shiga, well-known for his cooking skills, prepares a meal in the camp's warehouse kitchen.
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Japanese Americans making furniture (ddr-densho-15-65)
The barracks apartments that housed Japanese Americans contained cots and a coal-burning stove, but no other furniture. Camp inmates often made their own furniture and other accessories from scrap lumber.
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Japanese Americans playing cards at the fire station (ddr-densho-15-59)
This is the interior of Fire Station Number 1. Left to right: (first name unknown) Hikida, unidentified, Yoshio Akada, and Mr. Sano. The fire station was one of the few buildings with a refrigerator. Mr. Sano owned the bathhouse underneath the Panama Hotel in Seattle, Washington, before World War II.
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Japanese American family (ddr-densho-15-46)
Sam (left) and Fumie Taniguchi and their two daughters.
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Two Japanese Americans sleeping (ddr-densho-15-79)
Two Japanese Americans resting after the camp's farm picnic.
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Honor roll (ddr-densho-15-82)
Japanese Americans looking at the camp's honor roll, a listing of all the Japanese Americans from the Minidoka concentration camp who volunteered for military service. Minidoka had the highest number of volunteers from the mainland United States.
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Japanese American with light meter (ddr-densho-15-57)
Norio Mitsuoka, twenty-seven years old, prepares to take a picture. Although cameras were among the items confiscated from Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor, Mitsuoka was allowed to have a camera in camp in 1944.
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Japanese Americans washing dishes (ddr-densho-15-74)
Issei washing dishes inside the camp's warehouse kitchen.
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Interior of camp office (ddr-densho-15-52)
Yoneko Tanaka (seated, facing the camera) working in the camp's co-op office.
