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img Art class (ddr-densho-151-439)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Making artificial flowers in the Art School at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

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img Families arriving at Turlock (ddr-densho-151-455)

Original caption: Turlock, California. Families of Japanese ancestry arrived at Turlock Assembly. Evacuees will be housed later at War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

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img View of Japantown prior to mass removal (ddr-densho-151-320)

Original caption: Sacramento, California. Scene in rooming house section of the Japanese quarter of this city two days before evacuation of residents of Japanese ancestry.

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img Child wearing "evacuation tag" (ddr-densho-151-185)

Original caption: Centerville, California. This youngster is awaiting evacuation bus. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

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img Japanese Americans in art class (ddr-densho-151-480)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Making artificial flowers in the Art School at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

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img Japanese Americans eating in mess hall (ddr-densho-151-66)

Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Mealtime in one of the messhalls at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

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img Issei couple waiting for bus (ddr-densho-151-190)

Original caption: Centerville, California. This farming couple awaits evacuation bus. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

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img Japanese American nurse in medical clinic (ddr-densho-151-351)

Original caption: San Bruno, California. An evacuee nurse of Japanese ancestry tidying up after a busy morning in the medical clinic at this assembly center.

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img New arrivals at the Tanforan Assembly Center (ddr-densho-151-22)

Original WRA caption: San Bruno, California. Evacuees of Japaneses ancestry arriving at the Tanforan Assembly center. They are being checked as they leave the bus.

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img Family preparing for mass removal (ddr-densho-151-235)

Original caption: San Francisco, California. This family is preparing to move from their Bush Street home to an Assembly center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

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img Manzanar Free Press staff (ddr-densho-151-430)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. The staff of the Japanese language section of the Manzanar Free Press conferring with the editor, Joe Blamey.

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img Japanese Americans boarding bus (ddr-densho-151-209)

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

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img Art class (ddr-densho-151-355)

Original caption: San Bruno, California. In the art school at this assembly center. These evacuee children are remaining after hours to continue their creative work.

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av Howe Hanamura and Wendy Hanamura at Min Nakayama Court (ddr-ajah-6-313)

B-roll of Howe Hanamura and Wendy Hanamura at Min Nakayama Court in Alameda, California. Part of the 1995 documentary Honor Bound: A Personal Journey.

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Collection Tsuyako Kitashima Collection (ddr-janm-4)

Various materials from Topaz, Redress, the National Coalition for Redress and Reparations (NCRR), and the Japanese American Citizens' League (JACL) by Tsuyako "Sox" Kitashima. Kitashima was born in Hayward, California in 1918. Her and her family were among the 120,000 Japanese Americans forcefully interned in war relocation camps during World War Two. They were first taken …

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Collection Rosie Maruki Kakuuchi Collection (ddr-manz-10)

The Rosie Maruki Kakuuchi Collection is comprised of photographs from Rosie Maruki and her family's experiences primarily during World War II at the Manzanar concentration camp, California. Materials include snapshots of family members and friends in camp as well as some postwar photos of the family in Los Angeles and immigration documents from Rosie's Issei parents.

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Collection Kuroishi Family Collection (ddr-densho-167)

The Kuroishi Family Collection features photographs and documents from the family of Iwao Kuroishi, an Issei who was the proprietor of the Chop Suey House restaurant in Los Angeles, California, prior to World War II. The collection includes photographs from the Rohwer concentration camp, Arkansas, and documents relating to the family's resettlement to Omaha, Nebraska, after …

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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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vh Hikaru Morohoshi Interview (ddr-densho-1000-303)

Kibei Nisei male. Born October 4, 1915, in Stockton, California. As a young child, sent to Japan to live with grandparents and attend school. Returned to California at age eighteen, and drafted into the U.S. military. Discharged from the army after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Removed to the Tanforan Assembly Center, Washington, and the Topaz concentration …

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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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doc A Myopic Account of a Relocated Life during the Second World War (ddr-densho-468-97)

Personal recollections of life in an assembly center and relocation camp for Japanese descendants and various digressions

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doc Heart Mountain Sentinel Supplement Series 294 (April 12, 1945) (ddr-densho-97-505)

Selected article titles: "California Relocatees I.D. Cards Necessary" (p. 1), "Proper Packing of Household Goods" (p. 1), "Typists, Stenographers, Diet Aid-Waitresses Urgently Needed" (p. 1).

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 13 No. 149 (January 1941) (ddr-pc-13-1)

Selected article titles: "Reply to Gillette's Charges" (p. 1), "Year of Snake" (p. 1), "Civil Rights in California" (p. 3), "Dedicated to Our Farmers" (p. 6).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 114, No. 22 (June 5, 1992) (ddr-pc-64-22)

Select article titles: "Rising Controversy" (p. 1); "President Bush names 7 Nikkei to Civil Liberties board" (p. 1). "California civil rights bill passes Assembly" (p. 3).

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doc Rohwer Outpost Vol. V No. 46 (December 2, 1944) (ddr-densho-143-224)

Selected article titles: "Bond Drives Begins: To be Sponsored by U.S.O." (p. 1), "Leaves Center for California" (p. 1), "Parents Learn of Son's Death" (p. 1).

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