ddr-manz-2 — Kango Takamura Collection — Objects

Kango Takamura Collection ddr-manz-2

Back to collection detail

Filters

Topics

Facilities

Format

Genre

Usage

Use <Ctrl> or (⌘) keys to select multiple terms

Gallery view
List view

76 items

img Painting of the administration office at Santa Fe Internment Camp (ddr-manz-2-26)

Caption: "Mr. Ohkado, Mr. Nozaki R., Mr. Kitagawa M." Caption on reverse: "Administration Office Santa Fe Internment Center."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-2-26/

img Painting of the Santa Fe canteen (ddr-manz-2-27)

Caption: "Mr. Arai, Mr. Funahashi." Caption on reverse: "A canteen for the convenience of Santa Fe's internees."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-2-27/

img Painting of men in the sewing room (ddr-manz-2-28)

Caption: "Mr. Kamimura, Mr. Kamel, Mr. Kishi." Caption on reverse: "Sewing room."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-2-28/

img Painting of the barber shop at Santa Fe Internment Camp (ddr-manz-2-29)

Caption on reverse: "Barber shop. All equipment built by Santa Fe internees."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-2-29/

img Painting of men making wooden clogs (ddr-manz-2-30)

Caption on reverse: "We made wooden clogs to send to our families at other centers."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-2-30/

img Painting of the shower room at Santa Fe Internment Camps (ddr-manz-2-31)

Caption on reverse: "We made bath tubs in the shower room out of wooden fish boxes."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-2-31/

img Painting of an adobe house (ddr-manz-2-32)

Caption: "An adobe house inside our Sata [sic] Fe Camp."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-2-32/

img Sketch of scenes at Santa Fe Internment Camp (ddr-manz-2-33)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-2-33/

img Sketch of baseball scenes (ddr-manz-2-34)

Caption: "Mr. Higashikuze. Our umpire Mr. Higashikuze knew the rules but the players dint [sic] it. However we all had a good time."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-2-34/

img Painting of barracks at Santa Fe Internment Camp (ddr-manz-2-35)

Caption: "This was the Santa Fe barrack No. 5 where I stayed."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-2-35/

img Painting of Santa Fe Internment Camp (ddr-manz-2-36)

"A butane tank was used to strike the gong that summoned us to mess hall. Santa Fe internment camp."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-2-36/

img Painting of internees leaving Santa Fe Internment Camp (ddr-manz-2-37)

Caption: "June 1942. Ending months of uncertainty, we were released from Santa Fe internment camp to return to our families at relocation centers. Everyone cheered as we left camp. Now there was hope we would return home."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-2-37/

img Painting of men observing cloud formations (ddr-manz-2-38)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-2-38/

img Painting of internees on the train leaving Santa Fe Internment Camp (ddr-manz-2-39)

Caption: "We stopped briefly at a small town - Needles, they said. To our pleasant surprise, Japanese workers brought us boxes of food."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-2-39/

img Painting of internees waiting to transfer to buses (ddr-manz-2-40)

Caption: "Mojave, Calif. We waited for our bus here for seven long hours in a desert windstorm - after we disembarked from the trin."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-2-40/

img Painting of internees arriving at Manzanar (ddr-manz-2-41)

Caption: "Home sweet home for men coming home to Manzanar from beet furlough."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-2-41/

img Sketch of a dust storm at Manzanar (ddr-manz-2-42)

Caption: "First impression of Manzanar."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-2-42/

img 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."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-2-43/

img 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."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-2-44/

img Painting of a scene at Manzanar Grammar School (ddr-manz-2-45)

Caption on reverse: "First graders at Manzanar Grammar School."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-2-45/

img 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.'"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-2-46/

img Painting of a Manzanar High School gym class (ddr-manz-2-47)

Caption: "Did you ever see such individual dress attire? This is a high school gym class I ran into on the dusty field next to block 7. Facing each other in a circle, they would clap their hands, say something, laugh. Off in the corner another class came dashing by."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-2-47/

img Painting of a cooking class at Manzanar High School (ddr-manz-2-48)

"A cooking class. What vitamins do potatoes have? Miss Smith teaches her girls in what used to be the kitchen of mess hall 7."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-2-48/

img 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."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-2-49/

img Painting of a woodworking class (ddr-manz-2-50)

Caption: "The boys in the woodcarving class of Mr. Bouche were being praised for their good work that day. The teacher was kept very busy showing his pupils how to hold the chisel."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-2-50/

Back to collection detail

API