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Gordon Hirabayashi Interview V Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-115-11)
Reactions to experiencing discrimination in Caldwell, Idaho
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Gordon Hirabayashi Interview V Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-115-10)
Facing discrimination in a restaurant in Caldwell, Idaho
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Wedding portrait (ddr-densho-359-1191)
Stamped on the back " Whelchel Milliner Studio Caldwell, Idaho".
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Children playing in the snow (ddr-densho-359-1097)
The caption from the album "Caldwell Idaho F.S.A. Camp"
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Letter from Phil Okano to Alice Okano (ddr-densho-359-1211)
Phil Okano writes to his wife, Alice Okano, concerning his travel from Caldwell, Idaho to Colorado .
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Portrait of couple (ddr-densho-359-1582)
Phil and Alice Okano. Caption written beneath the photograph in the album "At Idaho". The Okanos were released from Tule Lake in 1943 to do farm work in Caldwell, Idaho.
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Letter sent to T.K. Pharmacy from the FSA labor camp at Caldwell, Idaho (ddr-densho-319-114)
Request for Japanese style tablets, toiletries, and hair tonic.
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Daily Press Review, Vol. V, No. 1 (ddr-densho-156-241)
Article titles: "Letters to Editors"; "Labor from Mexico"; "Less Japanese Farm Labor Than Expected Available in Idaho"; "Items from Tulelake"; "Procedure for Obtaining Farm Labor Outlined"; "Maw Pleads for Jap Labor Draft"; "Caldwell Faces School Puzzle at Labor Camp"; "In the Magazines."
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Letter from Alice Okano to Phil Okano (ddr-densho-359-1223)
Alice writes that if Phil, her husband, wants to take the teaching job it is fine by her. She also assures Phil she will be fine on the farm in Caldwell, Idaho if he wants to work in Denver a bit longer.
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Letter from Phil Okano to Alice Okano (ddr-densho-359-1215)
Phil writes of his first day at his new job at a laundry in Denver. He says he can only keep the job for a little while so he discusses the pros and cons of staying in Denver to find more work or returning to Caldwell, Idaho.
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"R.T.C. 208 Co. B, 2nd Platoon, Camp Blanding Florida, Aug. - Dec. 1943" (ddr-densho-201-404)
Caption on reverse: "1st Row: George Tanagi Seattle, John Tanaka - Idaho Falls, Joe Ono - , Nobu Sakaguchi - , Satoru Sakuma, Mt. Vernon, Wash., Tamio Sakata, Roy Ono - Los Angles [sic], Mits Sakurada - Blackfoot Idaho, Ted Tadehara. 2nd Row: Emo Suzuki, Frank Shiota, Roy Ono, Ishida, Ernist [sic] Seko, Shiozaki - Idaho …
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J.A.C.L. 1946 Reflections (ddr-densho-201-461)
Twenty-page booklet published by the Japanese American Citizens League. Title on cover: "Summer Reflection 1946." Includes church bulletins, club activities, gossip columns, drawings, and quotations.
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Child on a rocking horse (ddr-densho-359-1100)
The caption in the album is "Jim Furushiro Jr. 16 mos.".
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Okano Family Collection (ddr-densho-359)
The Okano Family Collection is comprised of photographs, letters, and ephemera from the personal family collection of Pam Okano. The photographs depict the lives of the of the Kawamotos, Okanos, and Otsukas prewar in Japan and Western Washington, as well as during the war when the family was granted leave to work in Caldwell, Idaho, and …
Narrator Mits Yamasaki
Nisei male. Born February 3, 1924, in Caldwell, Idaho. In the early 1930s, sent with brothers to live in the Shonien orphanage in Los Angeles after mother develops tuberculosis. Remained in Shonien until the onset of World War II. During the war, removed with a friend's family to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the …
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Teresa Maebori Interview (ddr-phljacl-1-20)
Sansei female. Born February 13, 1945, in Caldwell, Idaho. During World War II, parents were incarcerated at the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. After leaving camp, moved to Auburn, Washington, where father's family had a pottery business and mother was a dressmaker. Teresa grew up in Auburn and graduated from the University of Washington. Served in …
Narrator Teresa Maebori
Sansei female. Born February 13, 1945, in Caldwell, Idaho. During World War II, parents were incarcerated at the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. After leaving camp, moved to Auburn, Washington, where father's family had a pottery business and mother was a dressmaker. Teresa grew up in Auburn and graduated from the University of Washington. Served in …
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Mits Yamasaki Interview (ddr-densho-1000-366)
Nisei male. Born February 3, 1924, in Caldwell, Idaho. In the early 1930s, sent with brothers to live in the Shonien orphanage in Los Angeles after mother develops tuberculosis. Remained in Shonien until the onset of World War II. During the war, removed with a friend's family to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the …