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img Japanese Americans boarding bus (ddr-densho-151-208)

Original caption: Centerville, California. Members of farm family board evacuation buses. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

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img Concentration camp barracks (ddr-densho-151-67)

Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Street scene looking west between barrack blocks at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

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img Japanese Americans boarding bus (ddr-densho-151-206)

Original caption: Centerville, California. The bus has just arrived and these farm families of Japanese ancestry are being kept intact while enroute to the Assembly center.

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img Japanese Americans boarding bus (ddr-densho-151-207)

Original caption: Centerville, California. Members of farm family board evacuation bus. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

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img Students studying in shade (ddr-densho-151-362)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Young sixth-grade students studying their lessons in the shade of the barracks at this first voluntary elementary school.

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img Japanese Americans working in field (ddr-densho-151-391)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Field laborers hoeing corn on the farm project at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

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doc Japanese American Courier Vol. 15, No. 734 (February 6, 1942) (ddr-densho-96-769)

Selected article titles: "Dislocations Hit California Young" (p. 1), "Pink Tea" (p. 2), "Hang-Overs" (p. 3), "Chapter Lending Much Assistance in Filing Forms" (p. 4)

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doc Japanese American Courier Vol. 12, No. 576 (January 28, 1939) (ddr-densho-96-611)

Selected article titles: "California Plans for Installation" (p. 1), "Pink Tea" (p. 2), "Hang-Overs" (p. 3), "Plans Completed on Installation of JACL Leaders" (p. 4)

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doc Letter from Seido Ogawa to Ryo Tsai (ddr-densho-446-286)

Ogawa is working on a job for Ai Chih Tsai. Query if Ai Chih is interested in a west coast church in Southern California or Seattle

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doc Scene the Pictorial Magazine Vol. 2 No. 12 (April 1951) (ddr-densho-266-29)

Selected article titles: "Hulas, leis enliven opening of Hawaii legislature" (p. 11), "550 Young Buddhists convene in California" (p. 33), "Combat mission in Korea" (p. 15).

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doc Card from Martha Nozawa to Tomoye Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-97)

Telling Tomoye that she is planning to stay in Minneapolis and has a chance for a job with Archer-Daniels company, instead of returning to California

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img Sign in window of Shizuko Imagire's Shop and Sewing School, in English and Japanese (ddr-ajah-6-134)

Caption below photo: Outdoor sign from Shizuko Imagire's first dress shop and sewing school in Alameda, CA. circa 1925. Translation: California Certified Imagire Women's Sewing School

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doc Letter to a Nisei man from his sister (ddr-densho-153-112)

Excerpt: "Thank you very much for the letter which caused you to take great pains in writing." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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doc Letter to two Nisei brothers from their sister (ddr-densho-153-97)

Excerpt: "Last night I went to see Donald O'conner in "It up comes Love" with Gloria Jean." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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doc Letter to a Nisei man from his brother (ddr-densho-153-107)

Excerpt: "Arrived in Reno at 2:30 A.M., slept and took a bath at a hotel there." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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doc Letter to two Nisei brothers from their sister (ddr-densho-153-218)

Excerpt: "How are you? We are all well and hope that your cold is gone by now." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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doc Postcard to two Nisei brothers from their sister (ddr-densho-153-188)

Excerpt: "Hi Jerks! I waited for your letter but it didn't come again, so I got mad." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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doc Letter to a Nisei man from his sister (ddr-densho-153-134)

Excerpt: "I'm pretty excited, for tomorrow I'm going to see if I can be employed." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, possibly to Camp Robinson, Arkansas.

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doc Postcard to a Nisei man from his mother and sister (ddr-densho-153-161)

Excerpt: "I recieved your letter yesterday and today. Every one was very happy to hear from you." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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doc Postcard to two Nisei brothers from their sister (ddr-densho-153-186)

Excerpt: "I forgot to ask you in the other postcard about the stuff I ordered from you." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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doc Letter to a Nisei man from his sister (ddr-densho-153-26)

Excerpt: "Today is sunday & I just got back from breakfast & boy it was delicious." This letter was sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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doc Letter to two Nisei brothers (ddr-densho-153-215)

Excerpt: "I am sorry I didn't have time to write to you for such a long time." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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doc MIS Intelligencer Volume 21 No. 1 (ddr-densho-1007-1459)

The Intelligencer was the newsletter of the MIS veterans association of northern California. Includes tributes to John Aiso and a review of The Color of Honor.

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vh Norman I. Hirose Interview (ddr-densho-1013-7)

Nisei male. Born June 22, 1926, in Oakland, California. Grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed with family to the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, and Topaz concentration camp, Utah. Signed "no-no" on the so-called "loyalty questionnaire" in 1943 because of mother's wish to have the family move to Japan. …

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vh Bob Suzuki Interview (ddr-densho-1000-452)

Nisei-han male. Born January 2, 1936, in Portland, Oregon, where father worked for the railroad. During World War II, removed to the Portland Assembly Center, Oregon, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. After leaving camp, family moved to a small community outside of Spokane, Washington, to farm. Went to UC Berkeley and Caltech, then taught at …

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