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img Two Nisei boys observing mass removal (ddr-densho-151-151)

Original caption: San Francisco, California. High school boys, on balcony of Japanese American Citizens League at 2031 Bush Street, look down sidewalk where friends boarded evacuation buses. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

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img Japanese American inside barracks (ddr-densho-151-50)

Original WRA caption: San Bruno, California. A close-up of an entrance of a family apartment. Note that the windows in this unit have been enlarged. Five people occupy two small rooms, the inner one of which is without outside door or windows.

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img Japanese Americans boarding bus (ddr-densho-151-146)

Original caption: Byron, California. These families of Japanese ancestry, evacuated from farms in Contra Costa County, board bus for assembly center in Turlock Fairgrounds, 65 miles away. Evacuees will be transported later to War Relocation Authority centers where they will spend the duration.

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img Japanese Americans outside barracks (ddr-densho-151-252)

Original caption: Stockton, California. These evacuees of Japanese ancestry are spending their first day at this Assembly Point. The average age of the Nisei is 20 years. Later they will be transferred to a War Relocation Authority center to spend the duration.

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img Issei woman crying as she boards train (ddr-densho-151-293)

Original caption: Woodland, California. Women at railroad station on morning of departure of persons of Japanese ancestry from this agricultural community to the Merced Assembly center. The woman in the dark slack suit is one of the few exhibiting grief on leaving.

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img Japanese Americans registering for mass removal (ddr-densho-151-123)

Original caption: San Francisco, California. Japanese family heads and persons living alone, form a line outside Civil Control station located in the Japanese American Citizens League Auditorium at 2031 Bush Street, to appear for "processing" in response to Civilian Exclusion Order Number 20.

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img Mass removal sale (ddr-densho-151-78)

Original WRA caption: San Francisco, California. Shortly before evacuation of persons of Japanese ancestry from the Post and Buchanan Streets neighborhood, San Francisco. This dry goods store is closing out its merchandise. Evacuees will be housed at War Relocation Authority centers for duration.

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doc Clipping regarding Lucia Trent (ddr-njpa-1-2111)

Caption on front: Lucia Trent has an enviable record of achievement in the poetry world. The Pittsburgh Press once termed her and her husband Ralph Cheney 'The Brownings of America.' She lives in California and is coeditor of Horizons, a verse magazine."

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vh Ellen Watanabe-Huxtable Interview (ddr-chi-1-14)

Sansei female. Born in 1953 in Chicago, Illinois. Grew up hearing stories of her parents' wartime experiences at the Santa Anita Assembly Center and Manzanar concentration camp, California. After leaving camp, parents resettled in Chicago, Illinois, where Ellen was born and raised.

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vh Flora Ninomiya Interview (ddr-densho-1000-473)

Nisei female. Born April 8, 1935, in Richmond, California. Grew up in Richmond, where grandfather established a flower nursery business. During World War II, removed to the Amache concentration camp, Colorado. Returned to Richmond and resumed the family business after the war.

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vh Molly Enta Kitajima Interview (ddr-densho-1000-400)

Nisei female. Born October 10, 1925, in Strawberry Hill, British Columbia, near Vancouver. Grew up in Strawberry Hill where parents ran a farm. During World War II, family was removed inland to a farm near Winnipeg. Molly eventually married and moved to California.

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vh Kay Sakai Nakao Interview (ddr-densho-1001-3)

Nisei female. Born and raised in Bainbridge Island, Washington. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed with family to Manzanar concentration camp California, then later transferred to Minidoka, Idaho. Married while in Minidoka, and returned to Bainbridge Island after World War II.

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img [Group photo in front of buildings] (ddr-csujad-29-93)

Photograph of six individuals standing in front of two buildings in Japan. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P008

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doc Commemorative Issue 2600th Anniversary Yearbook and Directory 1940-1941 (ddr-densho-480-2)

The yearbook includes pictures and information about Japanese American businesses, schools, organizations, individuals, and families. The directory includes city indexes for California, as well as a few city indexes for Arizona and Japan, with advertisements for businesses and organizations throughout the city indexes.

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doc Letter to a Nisei man from his brother (ddr-densho-153-210)

Excerpt: "I thought I'd put this extra line in because I just finished hearing the U.S.C., U.C.L.A. Basketball game, and the bruins won for the first time after forty-two (42) consecutive defeats." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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doc Letter and clipping to Yuri Tsukada from Mine Okubo (ddr-densho-356-668)

Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Mine Okubo. Mine writes about how she would feel hosting house guests, how by living in New York City she never feels like she needs to travel for a vacation and encourages Yuri to travel to California.

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doc Pacific Citizen Vol. 22 No. 5 (ddr-densho-121-12)

Selected article titles: "California Demands Federal Government Maintain Financial Responsibility for Evacuees" (p. 1), "Window Smashed in Penryn Store Opened by Nisei Ex-GI" (p. 1), "Deportation Cases Will Be Handled by International Institute" (p. 1), "Hearing on Thirty Deportation Cases Postponed, Says Wirin" (p. 1), "Nisei Specialists Worked Behind Lines in Japan" (p. 1), "The Alien …

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doc AC Transit articles (ddr-densho-433-208)

Three articles about Alameda-Contra Costa District (AC) Transit Board elections.

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 17 No. 9 (September 4, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-34)

Selected article titles: "Japanese American Soldiers From Camp Shelby Sweep South Swim Championship" (p. 1), "Evacuee Children Face Denial Of Free Schooling in Idaho" (p. 1), "Additional External Security Measures Ordered by Army Commander for Tule Lake Camp. New Barbed-Wire Fence Being Erected at WRA Segregation Center; Augmented Military Guard Expected to Police Northern California Camp" …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 20 No. 8 (February 24, 1945) (ddr-pc-17-8)

Selected article titles: "Night-Riding Hoodlums Blamed For Second Shotgun Attack on Evacuee Home in Fresno Area" (p. 1), "500 Return To Homes in Coast States" (p. 1), "Target of Shotgun Attack Will Stay on California Farm" (p. 1), "100 Percent Increase in WRA Relocation Program Revealed By Secretary Ickes in Report" (p. 2), "Backbone of Coast …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 31 No. 23 (December 9, 1950) (ddr-pc-22-49)

Selected article titles: "Walter Measure Passed Unanimously by House. Race Against Time Develops to Obtain Senate Approval Before End of Short Session" (p. 1), "California Supreme Court Plans January Hearing on Alien Law Test Case" (p. 1), "U.S. Housing Official Told Of Discrimination Faced by Nisei Ex-GIs in Buying Homes" (p. 1), "Problems Confronting Nisei Given …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 49, No. 15 (October 9, 1959) (ddr-pc-31-41)

Selected article titles: "West L.A. Aux'y seeks clothing for 'Vera' victims" (p. 1), "Japan relief campaign opens in southland" (p. 1), "Estimate 7,500 Japanese residents in San Francisco; 'too low' says Nichibei" (p. 1), "College profs and students experiment with Nihongo class" (p. 2), "Racial harmony interest in southern California growing" (p. 3), "East Coast chapters …

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img George Naohara (ddr-csujad-38-250)

A photograph of George Nobuo Naohara taken at the Tule Lake camp in California. It was given to Mitzi Masukawa Naohara incarcerated at the Poston camp in Arizona. The handwritten note on the back side reads: 1944. August 30th, Tule Lake Camp, 7116-a, George Naohara.; The photo was taken on August 30, 1944. From Nobuo to …

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doc Letter from Jennie G. Hermon, Clerk, Local Board No. 277, Selective Service System, to Nobuo Naohara, June 13, 1945 (ddr-csujad-38-575)

A letter from Jennie G. Hermon, Local Board No. 277, Selective Service System, to George Nobuo Naohara incarcerated in the Tule Lake camp in California. It is the second notice requiring George to complete DDS form 304A, following their instruction. It appears that George did not respond to their previous letter, which is found in item: …

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img Group of Nisei 8th graders with a teacher outside a barrack (ddr-csujad-44-28)

A large group photograph of boys and girls who are 8th graders incarcerated at Tule Lake, California, with their teacher. The group of children is posing in three rows outside a barrack. The girls and boys in the back two rows are standing. The girls in the front row are seated in chairs. Their teacher is …

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