Friends of Minidoka
Site: https://www.minidoka.org/
Through the support of a 2018 National Park Service Japanese American Confinement Sites grant and in partnership with Densho, Friends of Minidoka and Densho worked with a researcher to digitize nearly 1,000 images held in the National Archives, most of which were unprinted film negatives from the official WRA records, in which government photographers were hired to document the Minidoka camp during the war. Most of these images did not yet exist in a digital format, and will help future generations of researchers and descendants better understand Minidoka.
2 Collections
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War Relocation Authority, Minidoka Collection (ddr-fom-1)
The War Relocation Authority, Minidoka Collection contains a set of previously undigitized negatives take between 1943 and 1945 at Minidoka. These negatives were held at the National Archives and were digitized by the Friends of Minidoka. Topics include: camp scenes, education, fire crews, farming, religion, sports, and vocations.
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Arthur Kleinkopf Collection (ddr-fom-2)
Born in Illinois in 1900, Arthur Kleinkopf and his family moved to Missouri, where he graduated from school and married Edith Botts. Arthur and Edith secured teaching positions in Roseworth, Idaho in 1921, and continued to teach in small Idaho schools until 1940. From 1940 to 1942, the Kleinkopfs lived in Moscow while Arthur earned his …