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img View of Japantown prior to mass removal (ddr-densho-151-316)

Original caption: Sacramento, California. Looking up Capitol Street in the business district of the Japanese quarter two days before evacuation of all persons of Japanese ancestry from this city.

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img Issei farmer with baggage (ddr-densho-151-453)

Original caption: Centerville, California. This farmer rearranges his personal effects as he awaits evacuation bus. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for duration.

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img Mass removal registration (ddr-densho-151-79)

Original WRA caption: San Francisco, California. Father and son register for evacuation of persons of Japanese ancestry. Evacuees will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

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img Issei man boarding bus (ddr-densho-151-186)

Original caption: Centerville, California. Irrigator, who, with 595 persons of Japanese ancestry, is leaving this rural district this morning for an assembly center under Civilian Exclusion Order Number 34.

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img Bus leaving for Tanforan Assembly Center (ddr-densho-151-263)

Original caption: San Francisco, California. This bus loaded with evacuees of Japanese ancestry, is bound for Tanforan Assembly center on the first day of evacuation of the Japanese quarter.

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img Baggage of Japanese Americans next to bus (ddr-densho-151-166)

Original caption: Hayward, California. Baggage of evacuees of Japanese ancestry ready to be loaded on moving van. Evacuees will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

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img Two men with paper parasols (ddr-densho-426-1790)

Inscription on back: Miss Nozawa Rollericord IA F4.5 @ 1 sec Panatomic X Developed in DK20 Printed on Kadabrom G3 Gordon R. Milan 2125 Harrison St. Apt 107 Oakland, California

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doc Japanese American Courier Vol. 13, No. 642 (May 4, 1940) (ddr-densho-96-677)

Selected article titles: "North California Eyes Natl. Confab" (p. 1), "Pink Tea" (p. 2), "A Rising Young Hurler" (p. 3), "Seattle Chapter Sets Session to Study Vocations" (p. 4)

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doc Japanese American Courier Vol. 12, No. 617 (November 11, 1939) (ddr-densho-96-652)

Selected article titles: "Notables Attend Session Held by California JACL" (p. 1), "Pink Tea" (p. 2), "Hang-Overs" (p. 3), "Farmer Session Set for Seattle Coming Saturday" (p. 4)

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av Interview with Haruo Howe Hanamura (part 3 of 3) (ddr-ajah-6-309)

Part 1 of an interview with Haruo Howe Hanamura in the dining room of his home in Oakland, California. Part of the 1995 documentary Honor Bound: A Personal Journey.

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doc Letter to a Nisei man from his sister (ddr-densho-153-90)

Excerpt: "I just have a little time to write this letter on a peice a scratch paper that I have." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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doc Letter to a Nisei man from his sister (ddr-densho-153-45)

Excerpt: "Just got your letter. Glad to hear that your in good condition as we are in the same conditions." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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doc MIS 50th Anniversary news releases (ddr-densho-1007-1441)

Series of announcements sent out in 1990 and 1991 relating to the plans for the MIS 50th Anniversary celebration organized by the Military Intelligence Service Northern California veteran's association.

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img Military Police (ddr-densho-37-808)

Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Army military police go on duty to guard the boundaries of this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

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doc Relocation Problems and Policies (ddr-densho-356-1035)

Speech given at the Tuesday Evening Club in Pasadena, California by War Relocation Authority Director Dillon S. Myer on the subject of relocation of Japanese American from WRA camps.

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Collection Matsumoto Collection (ddr-densho-107)

The Matsumoto collection consists of photographs from the personal family collection of Ranger Roy H. Matsumoto, who was interviewed by Densho in 2003. Mr. Matsumoto was one of the famed Merrill's Marauders, and the photographs depict aspects of his life from his childhood in California through his induction into the Ranger Hall of Fame.

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doc Heart Mountain Sentinel Supplement Series 268 (January 11, 1945) (ddr-densho-97-485)

Selected article titles: "California Group to Aid Returning Evacuees" (p. 1), "Contact Main Post Office for Unclaimed Mail" (p. 1), "Sumitomo Bank Depositors Asked to Write Seattle Office" (p. 2).

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doc George and Jean Abe interview (ddr-csujad-6-1)

Oral history interview with George and Jean Abe. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: SCRC_ABE_GEORGE_AND_JEAN

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doc Poston Chronicle Vol. XX No. 13 (August 31, 1944) (ddr-densho-145-551)

Selected article titles: "Care of School Child Outlined" (p. 1), "No Center Closings" (p. 1), "Mrs. Shiramizu Permitted to Return to California" (p. 1), "Poston Boy is Promoted" (p. 1).

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doc Letter to Anne Margrave from J.M. Kidwell (ddr-densho-342-30)

Letter from J.M. Kidwell, Director, Service Division, Owens Valley Reception Center, to Anne Margrave, Librarian of the Inyo County Free Library of Independence, California, regarding planning a library for Manzanar.

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img Man resting under trees (ddr-ajah-6-586)

Caption below photo: An Issei man rests after hand picking Cantaloupes. He was working the Turlock vicinity of the Central Valley of California and likely came from Oakland, CA. 1922

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img Japanese American family boarding bus (ddr-densho-151-144)

Original caption: Byron, California. The bus which will take this farm family of Japanese ancestry to the Assembly center is almost ready to leave. Note identification tag on small boy.

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img Japanese American working in lath house (ddr-densho-151-470)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. An evacuee is shown in the lath house sorting seedlings for tranplanting. These plants are year-old seedlings from the Salinas Experiment Station.

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img Two Japanese American orphans (ddr-densho-151-442)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. The two youngest of the 65 evacuee orphans in the Childrens' Village at this War Relocation Authrority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

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img Issei man registering for mass removal (ddr-densho-151-135)

Original caption: Hayward, California. A farmer of Japanese ancestry appears at Wartime Civil Control Administration station prepratory to evacuation. Evacuees will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for duration.

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