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116 items
![Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-74)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/25/25/25255c1e729fe63ab5e4100c8cdcaf6f.jpg)
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Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-74)
Excerpt: "I hope your vacation is proving as restful and congenial as mine. I'm indulging all my repressed tastes!" Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.
![Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-52)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/c4/ca/c4cad7e93c01b624b91e22f970faac1a.jpg)
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Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-52)
Excerpt: "Monday was calm enough -- Bob Coombs returned from Sacamento in fine shape and we got up to date on news." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.
![Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-40)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/74/06/74066921d04995cb3ba7a4c2ae63de81.jpg)
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Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-40)
Excerpt: "Tonight I'm sitting in the shadow of my social life dashing this off while I wait for the Chinese checker game to begin." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.
![Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-7)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/af/16/af1660d1cc442cfc6ef9322af953f99d.jpg)
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Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-7)
Excerpt: "I put my room to permanent rights at little more. Assembled my voluminous notes and bibliographies from Stanford into notebook covers purchased yesterday." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.
![Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-61)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/8e/a7/8ea7b76dcccd7ad038f405299b5e67d8.jpg)
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Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-61)
Excerpt: "Lots of things happened last week until I don't know just whether I'm going or coming in my job." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.
![Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-13)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/b2/e5/b2e52e0208ba690a690f1dd1d94734f0.jpg)
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Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-13)
Excerpt: "The latter refers to working with my four wild Indiands and seeing them growing into class leaders." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.
![Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-50)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/69/c5/69c5dded690b9f250de95d6941fc3c28.jpg)
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Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-50)
Excerpt: "Since then it has been a series of slow days that would have been leisurely if they hadn't been haunted by uncertainty and insidious developments." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.
![Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-2)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/a8/4d/a84d351eb68c0d7a726e9644e3475cf5.jpg)
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Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-2)
Excerpt: "I'm not sure when I wrote last, was it on the train? As you probably noticed I took the Pacific limited to be sure of connections at Wells." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.
![Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-29)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/8b/5e/8b5e6d9268c15749fe61cfd6950a8b38.jpg)
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Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-29)
Excerpt: "I guess the vacation atmosphere of school has permeated my whole routine." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.
![Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-17)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/2d/f9/2df909ebc3a76823d8ec5a6575fd9409.jpg)
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Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-17)
Excerpt: "Monday night we learned at choir that instead of a rehearsal Thursday we were getting a farewell concert for the project." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.
![Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-38)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/a3/78/a3783e30357a39c8c5fd847d5e2695e9.jpg)
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Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-38)
Excerpt: "Our enrollment is sky rocketing beyond our wildest estimate and yet we must be prepared to have many relocate or graduate in February." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.
![Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-36)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/c1/0a/c10aaae523ae01ede070c218f316785b.jpg)
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Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-36)
Excerpt: "Winter has replaced autumn, and fact has replaced rumor." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.
![Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-25)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/69/30/693009254990ebd375f36a7fb00726a4.jpg)
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Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-25)
Excerpt: "I know Tues. was a Relocation Guidance Comm. Meeting that lasted all the afternoon Tues. and Wed. mornings." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.
![Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-11)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/d3/0a/d30a863affe238ed61f2e8bd98d7b1c3.jpg)
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Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-11)
Excerpt: "The next day we had school with classes meeting for 15 minute periods. John got back from Seattle that morning too. He has hopes of a commission in the procurement division." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.
![Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-62)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/6a/a8/6aa84ce807a877ae03d0ac48eb6595c3.jpg)
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Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-62)
Excerpt: "My all-too-brief vacation is over but I've stretched it it a bit with a convenient cold." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.
![Helen Amerman Manning Collection (ddr-densho-171)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/4b/5f/4b5fd068a66d69b360e8075eb76a09f9.jpg)
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Helen Amerman Manning Collection (ddr-densho-171)
This collection contains documents donated to Densho by Helen Amerman Manning, a high school teacher at the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho, during World War II. The collection includes several publications by the War Relocation Authority.
![Helen Amerman Manning Interview Segment 17 (ddr-densho-1000-147-17)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/85/c6/85c605def06983b8b9e058bd3c330705.jpg)
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Helen Amerman Manning Interview Segment 17 (ddr-densho-1000-147-17)
Working as the Relocation Director for the Oakland Redevelopment Agency
![Helen Amerman Manning Interview Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-147-11)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/85/c6/85c605def06983b8b9e058bd3c330705.jpg)
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Helen Amerman Manning Interview Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-147-11)
Description of a typical school day for teachers in Minidoka; fond memories of the first school dance
![Helen Amerman Manning Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-147-4)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/85/c6/85c605def06983b8b9e058bd3c330705.jpg)
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Helen Amerman Manning Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-147-4)
Working various jobs before attending graduate courses at Stanford and eventually signing up to teach at the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho
![Helen Amerman Manning Interview Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-147-7)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/85/c6/85c605def06983b8b9e058bd3c330705.jpg)
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Helen Amerman Manning Interview Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-147-7)
Tackling difficult issues involving incarceration through lessons and discussions within the classroom
![Helen Amerman Manning Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-147-10)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/85/c6/85c605def06983b8b9e058bd3c330705.jpg)
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Helen Amerman Manning Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-147-10)
Discussion of students taught at Minidoka: one the whole, positive memories
![Helen Amerman Manning Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-147-8)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/85/c6/85c605def06983b8b9e058bd3c330705.jpg)
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Helen Amerman Manning Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-147-8)
Description of the "core class" system in Minidoka
![Helen Amerman Manning Interview Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-147-14)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/85/c6/85c605def06983b8b9e058bd3c330705.jpg)
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Helen Amerman Manning Interview Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-147-14)
Leaving Minidoka for Seattle, Washington; thoughts on the returning Japanese Americans
![Helen Amerman Manning Interview Segment 18 (ddr-densho-1000-147-18)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/85/c6/85c605def06983b8b9e058bd3c330705.jpg)
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Helen Amerman Manning Interview Segment 18 (ddr-densho-1000-147-18)
Reflections on the incarceration experience
![Helen Amerman Manning Interview Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-147-2)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/85/c6/85c605def06983b8b9e058bd3c330705.jpg)
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Helen Amerman Manning Interview Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-147-2)
Growing up in Bloomfield, New Jersey, doing well in school