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img Japanese Americans playing baseball (ddr-densho-151-394)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Baseball players in a huddle. This game is very popular with 80 teams having been formed to date. Most of the playing is done in the wide firebreak between blocks of barracks.

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img Pregnant Japanese American visiting doctor (ddr-densho-151-418)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Young expectant mother (center) receives check-up from her doctor (left) in the medical clinic, now housed in a temporary building, at this War Relocation Authority Center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

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img Nisei boy sitting with baggage (ddr-densho-151-265)

Original caption: San Francisco, California. Young high school boy of Japanese ancestry at Wartime Civil Control Administration station awaiting evacuation bus. He is a member of the first contingent of over 600 persons to be evacuated from San Francisco.

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img Japanese Americans carving wood (ddr-densho-151-338)

Original caption: San Bruno, California. Father and son while away the hours carving small wooden animals for the children in front of their home in the barracks. They have been living at the Assembly center for approximately two weeks.

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img Japanese American laborer (ddr-densho-151-459)

Original caption: Near Stockton, California. Field laborer of Japanese ancestry on a large-scale corporation ranch a few days prior to evacuation. These laborers earned from $750.00 to $1000 per year, plus living accomodations and their own little gardens.

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img Farewell letter posted in Chinatown restaurant (ddr-densho-151-117)

Original caption: San Francisco, California. Farewell letter posted in show window of T.Z. Shiota, importer in San Francisco's Chinatown, prior to evacuation of residents of Japanese ancestry. Evacuees will be housed at War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

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img Japanese Americans boarding train (ddr-densho-151-295)

Original caption: Woodland, Yolo County, California. The train is about to depart which will take these evacuees of Japanese ancestry, from this rich agricultural district, to the Merced Assembly center about 125 miles away. Many leave close friends behind.

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vh Melvyn Juhler Interview (ddr-manz-1-83)

White male. Born July 7, 1939, in Salinas, California. Parents owned and operated a farm in the Salinas area prior to World War II. During the war, father helped neighboring Japanese American farmers by taking care of their land.

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vh Lilly Kodama Interview (ddr-densho-1001-19)

Nisei female. Born 1935 in Bainbridge Island, Washington. Grew up on Bainbridge Island before being removed with family to Manzanar concentration camp, California, in 1942. Later transferred to Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho, and eventually returned to Bainbridge with family.

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img Group of women outside Shizuko Imagire's sewing school (ddr-ajah-6-136)

Caption below photo: California Certified Imagire Women's Sewing School / Shizuko Imagire's first dress shop and sewing school at 1618 Park Street in Alameda, CA. Photo is of her fourth graduating class, circa 1926. She is standing front row, center.

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img Group of women outside Shizuko Imagire's sewing school (ddr-ajah-6-135)

Caption below photo: California Certified Imagire Women's Sewing School / Shizuko Imagire's first dress shop and sewing school at 1618 Park Street in Alameda, CA. Photo is of her third graduation class, circa 1925. She is standing front row, center.

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img America in the Making (ddr-csujad-29-10)

Manzanar Elementary Department's program "America in the Making." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 1339_P03"

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img [Family at Japanese marketplace] (ddr-csujad-29-94)

Photograph of three individuals at a Japanese market. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P009

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img [Family holiday portrait] (ddr-csujad-29-92)

Photograph of George Nakagana, presumably with his family. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P007

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img [Family portrait] (ddr-csujad-29-90)

Photograph of George Nakagana, presumably with his family. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P005

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img [Family portrait] (ddr-csujad-29-91)

Photograph of George Nakagana, presumably with his family. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P006

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img [Two grave markers in Japanese cemetery] (ddr-csujad-29-95)

Photograph of two grave markers in a cemetery. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P010

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img [Portrait of Henry Raub] (ddr-csujad-29-102)

Portrait of Henry Raub, presumably in his office. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P017

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img [Photograph of Soichiro Hori] (ddr-csujad-29-104)

Photograph of Soichiro Hori, at the Shizuoka Airport. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P019

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img [Photograph of Frank Chuman] (ddr-csujad-29-109)

Photograph of Frank Chuman, presumably at his desk. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P027

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doc Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on February 6, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-765)

Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on February 6, 1942. Topics covered in the meeting include: public support for German immigrants, and updates to restrictions on Japanese Americans in California, plans to help effected Japanese Americans.

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Collection Yamada Collection (ddr-densho-25)

The Yamada collection, early 1900s-1950s and 1990s, focuses on the Iseri family, who resided in the White River Valley area of Washington State before World War II and in Weiser, Idaho, after the war. The photographs depict agricultural life and community activities such as sports, mochitsuki, and religious ceremonies. This collection also includes mass removal and …

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Collection Guyo Tajiri Collection (ddr-densho-338)

The Guyo Tajiri Collection consists of photographs, correspondence, and documents chronicling the life of Tsuguyo "Guyo" Marion Okagaki Tajiri and her husband Larry Tajiri. Photographs cover Guyo Tajiri's life and family from infancy through adulthood. The letters and documents highlight Guyo and Larry Tajiri's work running the Pacific Citizen from 1942 to 1952, Guyo's help in …

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Collection Hiroshi and Lillie (Yamato) Komai Collection (ddr-densho-562)

The Hiroshi and Lillie (Yamato) Komai Collection consists of the couple's wedding scrapbook, which contains ephemera from their bridal shower, wedding, and first anniversary. Mainly consisting of cards to the couple in celebration of their union. Additionally, the scrapbook contained the couple's vows and photographs from their honeymoon, a road trip in California. Finally, there are …

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doc Testimony of Kimiko Hazel Kusachi Calhoun (ddr-densho-67-262)

Written testimony of Kimiko Hazel Kusachi Calhoun of Hood River, Oregon. Incarcerated in the North Portland Assembly Center, Oregon, and Tule Lake concentration camp, California. This testimony was submitted for the CWRIC hearings in Seattle, Washington, September 9-11, 1981.

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