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img Issei farmer with baggage (ddr-densho-151-453)

Original caption: Centerville, California. This farmer rearranges his personal effects as he awaits evacuation bus. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for duration.

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img Mass removal registration (ddr-densho-151-79)

Original WRA caption: San Francisco, California. Father and son register for evacuation of persons of Japanese ancestry. Evacuees will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

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img Issei man boarding bus (ddr-densho-151-186)

Original caption: Centerville, California. Irrigator, who, with 595 persons of Japanese ancestry, is leaving this rural district this morning for an assembly center under Civilian Exclusion Order Number 34.

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img Bus leaving for Tanforan Assembly Center (ddr-densho-151-263)

Original caption: San Francisco, California. This bus loaded with evacuees of Japanese ancestry, is bound for Tanforan Assembly center on the first day of evacuation of the Japanese quarter.

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img Baggage of Japanese Americans next to bus (ddr-densho-151-166)

Original caption: Hayward, California. Baggage of evacuees of Japanese ancestry ready to be loaded on moving van. Evacuees will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

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img Two men with paper parasols (ddr-densho-426-1790)

Inscription on back: Miss Nozawa Rollericord IA F4.5 @ 1 sec Panatomic X Developed in DK20 Printed on Kadabrom G3 Gordon R. Milan 2125 Harrison St. Apt 107 Oakland, California

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doc Japanese American Courier Vol. 13, No. 642 (May 4, 1940) (ddr-densho-96-677)

Selected article titles: "North California Eyes Natl. Confab" (p. 1), "Pink Tea" (p. 2), "A Rising Young Hurler" (p. 3), "Seattle Chapter Sets Session to Study Vocations" (p. 4)

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doc Japanese American Courier Vol. 12, No. 617 (November 11, 1939) (ddr-densho-96-652)

Selected article titles: "Notables Attend Session Held by California JACL" (p. 1), "Pink Tea" (p. 2), "Hang-Overs" (p. 3), "Farmer Session Set for Seattle Coming Saturday" (p. 4)

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av Interview with Haruo Howe Hanamura (part 3 of 3) (ddr-ajah-6-309)

Part 1 of an interview with Haruo Howe Hanamura in the dining room of his home in Oakland, California. Part of the 1995 documentary Honor Bound: A Personal Journey.

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doc Letter to a Nisei man from his sister (ddr-densho-153-90)

Excerpt: "I just have a little time to write this letter on a peice a scratch paper that I have." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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doc Letter to a Nisei man from his sister (ddr-densho-153-45)

Excerpt: "Just got your letter. Glad to hear that your in good condition as we are in the same conditions." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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doc Relocation Problems and Policies (ddr-densho-356-1035)

Speech given at the Tuesday Evening Club in Pasadena, California by War Relocation Authority Director Dillon S. Myer on the subject of relocation of Japanese American from WRA camps.

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doc MIS 50th Anniversary news releases (ddr-densho-1007-1441)

Series of announcements sent out in 1990 and 1991 relating to the plans for the MIS 50th Anniversary celebration organized by the Military Intelligence Service Northern California veteran's association.

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Collection Matsumoto Collection (ddr-densho-107)

The Matsumoto collection consists of photographs from the personal family collection of Ranger Roy H. Matsumoto, who was interviewed by Densho in 2003. Mr. Matsumoto was one of the famed Merrill's Marauders, and the photographs depict aspects of his life from his childhood in California through his induction into the Ranger Hall of Fame.

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Collection Tsuyako Kitashima Collection (ddr-janm-4)

Various materials from Topaz, Redress, the National Coalition for Redress and Reparations (NCRR), and the Japanese American Citizens' League (JACL) by Tsuyako "Sox" Kitashima. Kitashima was born in Hayward, California in 1918. Her and her family were among the 120,000 Japanese Americans forcefully interned in war relocation camps during World War Two. They were first taken …

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doc Heart Mountain Sentinel Supplement Series 268 (January 11, 1945) (ddr-densho-97-485)

Selected article titles: "California Group to Aid Returning Evacuees" (p. 1), "Contact Main Post Office for Unclaimed Mail" (p. 1), "Sumitomo Bank Depositors Asked to Write Seattle Office" (p. 2).

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doc George and Jean Abe interview (ddr-csujad-6-1)

Oral history interview with George and Jean Abe. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: SCRC_ABE_GEORGE_AND_JEAN

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doc Poston Chronicle Vol. XX No. 13 (August 31, 1944) (ddr-densho-145-551)

Selected article titles: "Care of School Child Outlined" (p. 1), "No Center Closings" (p. 1), "Mrs. Shiramizu Permitted to Return to California" (p. 1), "Poston Boy is Promoted" (p. 1).

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doc Letter to Anne Margrave from J.M. Kidwell (ddr-densho-342-30)

Letter from J.M. Kidwell, Director, Service Division, Owens Valley Reception Center, to Anne Margrave, Librarian of the Inyo County Free Library of Independence, California, regarding planning a library for Manzanar.

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img Camp art exhibit (ddr-densho-37-319)

Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. An evacuee girl proudly shows friends her art work which was on display in the exhibit shows held on labor day.

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img Japanese American feeding dairy calves (ddr-densho-37-602)

Original WRA caption: Gila River Relocation Center, Rivers, Arizona. Y.T. Sakoda, former vegetable worker from Guadalupe, California, is now enrolled in the dairy school, here. He is shown feeding calves.

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img Japanese Americans sorting turnips (ddr-densho-37-315)

Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Evacuee workers in the packing shed, sorting and packing turnips which have been grown on the farm near this relocation center.

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img Man resting under trees (ddr-ajah-6-586)

Caption below photo: An Issei man rests after hand picking Cantaloupes. He was working the Turlock vicinity of the Central Valley of California and likely came from Oakland, CA. 1922

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img Japanese Americans picking sports teams (ddr-densho-37-543)

Original WRA caption: Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. Dick Kunishima, Coach and former California High School Athletic Director, tears his team apart between halves of a Stockton - Santa Anita Game.

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img Japanese American family boarding bus (ddr-densho-151-144)

Original caption: Byron, California. The bus which will take this farm family of Japanese ancestry to the Assembly center is almost ready to leave. Note identification tag on small boy.

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