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img Government worker interviewing father and son (ddr-densho-151-217)

Original caption: Lodi, California. Father and son give pre-evacuation data at Wartime Civil Control Administration station. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be given opportunities to follow their callings at War Relocation Authority centers where they will spend the duration.

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img Guayule plants (ddr-densho-151-382)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Guayule beds in the lath house at this War Relocation Authority center. These plants are year-old seedlings from the Salinas experiment station which are ready to be transplanted into the open ground.

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img Remodeled horse stalls (ddr-densho-151-59)

Original WRA caption: San Bruno, California. This center is a converted race track. Here are shown what were horsestalls remodeled into living quarters for families. Photograph was made at noon on the third day after the center had been opened.

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img Japanese Americans standing in shade (ddr-densho-151-280)

Original caption: Sacramento, California. Under-graduate college students of Japanese ancestry who since their evacuation to this Center about a week ago, have helped to established a kindergarten for over 300 evacuee children between the ages of 3 and 10 years.

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img Two friends at lunchtime (ddr-densho-151-96)

Original caption: San Francisco, California. Lunch hour at the Raphael Weill Public School, Geary and Buchanan Streets. Children of Japanese ancestry were evacuated with their parents to spend the duration in War Relocation Authority centers where educational facilities will be established.

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img Japanese Americans studying in classroom (ddr-densho-151-367)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. An elementary school with voluntary attendance has been established with volunteer evacuee teachers, most of whom are college graduates. No school equipment is as yet obtainable and available tables and benches are used.

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img Japanese Americans watching baseball (ddr-densho-151-395)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry are enjoying a baseball game at this War Relocation Authority center. 80 teams having been organized to date with most of the playing is done between the barrack blocks.

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img Preschool class (ddr-densho-151-331)

Original caption: San Bruno, California. Pre-school evacuee children leaving the building for recess at this assembly center. There are about 25 children enrolled with six volunteer student teachers being trained by a Mills College graduate, all of Japanese ancestry.

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img Issei farmer in working in field (ddr-densho-151-211)

Original caption: Mountain View, California. Weeding garlic field in Santa Clara County prior to evacuation. Farmers and other evacuees of Japanese descent will be given opportunities to follow their callings in War Relocation Authority centers where they will spend the duration.

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img Horse stalls at Tanforan Assembly Center (ddr-densho-151-30)

Original WRA caption: San Bruno, California. Near view of horse-stall, left from the days when what is now Tanforan Assembly Center, was the famous Tanforan Race Track. Most of these stalls have been converted into family living quarters for Japanese.

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img Mass removal (ddr-densho-151-48)

Original WRA caption: Oakland, California. Baggage of evacuees of Japanese ancestry piled on the sidewalk. The Greyhound huses will soon arrive to take this baggage as well as the evacuees to the Tanforan Assembly center under Civilian Exclusion Order Number 28.

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img Loading baggage onto truck (ddr-densho-151-180)

Original caption: Centerville, California. Piling baggage of evacuees from this Alameda County farming community on the day before evacuation to assembly centers. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers where they will spend the duration.

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img Temporary hospital barracks (ddr-densho-151-70)

Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Emergency hospital housed in temporary quarters at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancesrty. The modern new hospital is almost ready for occupancy as shown in Photo C-851.

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img Japanese Americans in front of camp newspaper office (ddr-densho-93-2)

Original Ansel Adams caption: Roy Takeno (Editor) and group reading Manzanar paper in front of office, Yuichi Harata, Nabuo Samamura, Manzanar Relocation Center, California. (Note: original caption contains misspellings. "Harata" should be, "Hirata", and "Nabuo Samamura" should be, "Nobuo Sawamura".)

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img Tule Lake fire damage (ddr-csujad-3-12)

Photograph of burnt buildings demolished by fire at Tule Lake. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: tos_01_001_013

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vh Gary Yamagiwa Interview (ddr-chi-1-7)

Sansei male. Born May 8, 1953, in Chicago, Illinois. Parents were Nisei, sent to the concentration camps at Poston, Arizona, Manzanar and Tule Lake, California, during World War II. After leaving camp, resettled in Chicago, where Gary was born and raised.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-chi-1-7/

img Child and automobile (ddr-densho-475-53)

Black and white negative of a toddler posing in front of the trunk of a car in a California neighborhood while holding the hand of a woman whose face and arm are partially in frame. (photographic print: ddr-densho-475-725)

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img Small child standing next to car (ddr-densho-475-725)

Black and white photograph of a toddler posing in front of the trunk of a car in a California neighborhood while holding the hand of a woman whose face and arm are partially in frame. (negative: ddr-densho-475-53)

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vh Tats Kojima Interview (ddr-densho-1001-10)

Nisei male. Born 1923 in Bainbridge Island, Washington. Age 18 when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, was removed with family to Manzanar concentration camp, California. Later transferred to the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Became an auto mechanic after World War II.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1001-10/

vh Eiko Shibayama Interview (ddr-densho-1001-14)

Nisei female. Born 1929 in Bainbridge Island, Washington. Grew up helping on family's farm before being removed to Manzanar concentration camp, California, during World War II. Transferred with family to Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho, and eventually returned to Bainbridge Island.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1001-14/

doc English translation of: The Imperial Japanese Government Passport for Moritaro Ishida (ddr-csujad-29-7)

A passport for Moritaro Ishida issued on March 23, 1916. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 1339_M01_02

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img World Friendship Group (ddr-csujad-29-22)

Photograph of Sakaye Shigekawa with the World Friendship Group. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 2490_P16

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img [Photograph of Katsumi and Kango Kunitsugu] (ddr-csujad-29-99)

Photograph of Katsumi and Kango Kunitsugu, presumably at a party. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P014

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img [Katsumi and Kango Kunitsugu] (ddr-csujad-29-97)

Photograph of Katsumi and Kango Kunitsugu, presumably at a party. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P012

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-97/

img [Portrait of Albert Aigner] (ddr-csujad-29-100)

Portrait of Albert Aigner, presumably at a his home. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P015

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-100/

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