Arts and literature
World War II
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393 items
393 items
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Painting of a classroom scene (ddr-manz-2-49)
Caption: "'Gee, that angleworm's my name' said Haruo, slouched over the classroom steps as Mr. Lamphere showed his shorthand pupils how to write their name in the Gregg manner."
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Sketch of mochitsuki (ddr-manz-2-58)
Caption on reverse: "New Year's 'mochi' on Block 35. We especially appreciated this custom in camp during wartime."
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Painting of an administration scene at Manzanar (ddr-manz-2-43)
Caption: "I visited Dr. Carter today because school has opened and I am to make drawings of class scenes. It seemed a hundred people were rushing in and out of her office. All over her desk; the telephone rang all the time."
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Painting of Manzanar High School (ddr-manz-2-51)
Caption: "Manzanar High School. Studies took on great importance in these barrack classrooms. This was a day before the week-end holiday."
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Painting of Manzanar on New Year's Day (ddr-manz-2-63)
Caption on reverse: "At leisure on New Year's afternoon on Block 35."
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Painting of a scene at Manzanar Grammar School (ddr-manz-2-46)
Caption: "'Teacher, I know - ' At the other end of the same barrack. First graders of Miss Joh sit awkwardly about the mess table. A question has just been asked. Little Hiroshi, on the end slowly lifts his hand 'Teacher, I know.'"
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Painting of the nursery school at Manzanar (ddr-manz-2-44)
Caption: "It's nap time, but there's more noise than rest. The youngsters wriggle around, won't lie still. The teachers look exhausted. The scam in the foreground turns around. 'Hiya popa, watcha doin'?' Rest time in the nursery class."
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Painting of students going to class (ddr-manz-2-53)
Caption: "Students hurry to the classes as the belling's on this foggy morning."
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Painting of Manzanar in snow (ddr-manz-2-65)
Caption: "Snow in January 1944, block 35 at Manzanar."
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Illustrations of guayule leaf types (ddr-manz-2-70)
Caption: "Guayule shrub and leaf types. Some of the leaf types can be used to distinguish one strain from another."
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Painting of a chemist at work (ddr-manz-2-6)
Caption: "Mr. Hirozawa. The chemists work incessantly in search of a better method of extracting rubber. Here a chemist is preparing latex from guayule."
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Lil Dan'l, one year in a relocation center (ddr-csujad-1-57)
A booklet of a pictorial review of incarcerees' first year experience in the Rohwer incarceration camp, Arkansas. Lil Dan'l is a fictitious character in the "Poston outpost," a magazine published in the camp, symbolizing the incarcerees in the camp. This booklet was published to remember their experience in the Rohwer camp. See this object in the …
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Tatsuo Matsuda modeling in a drawing class (ddr-fom-1-864)
WRA caption on reverse: "Free-hand drawing class."
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Camp art (ddr-fom-1-439)
Caption on front: "From the desoleness [sic] / of project life, an evacuated / people look upward & onward / towards a bright new world / a reports office production.
