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img Election poster (ddr-densho-151-21)

Original WRA caption: San Bruno, California. Buildings of the Tanforan Center are plastered at this time with all manner of locally devised posters incident to the election of five each of the five precincts.

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img Japanese American man showing "evacuation tag" (ddr-densho-151-172)

Original caption: Hayward, California. Farmer of Japanese ancestry is showing his identification card to a Wartime Civil Control Administration Control Dispatcher as he is about to board the special bus for Tanforan Assembly center.

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img Japanese American making camouflage net (ddr-densho-151-412)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Making camouflage nets for the War Department. This is one of several War and Navy Department projects carried on by persons of Japanese ancestry in relocation centers.

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img Japanese Americans making camouflage nets (ddr-densho-151-413)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Making camouflage nets for the War Department. This is one of several War and Navy Department projects carried on by persons of Japanese ancestry in relocation centers.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-413/

img Japanese Americans making camouflage nets (ddr-densho-151-474)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Making camouflage nets for the War Department. This is one of several War and Navy Department projects carried on by persons of Japanese ancestry in relocation centers.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-474/

img Japanese Americans in doorway of barracks (ddr-densho-151-335)

Original caption: San Bruno, California. A mother and daughter, Issei and Nissei, who have been living in this Assembly center for one month, are seen at the door of their home in the barracks.

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doc Seattle Chapter, JACL Reporter, Vol. 35, No. 9, September 1998 (ddr-sjacl-1-456)

Newsletter covering the following topics: Janice Yee publishes article objecting to International Examiner using the term ?Jap?; Prof. Ron Takaki explains the effects of California?s affirmative action loss on the POC UC selections.

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img Photo folder with photo of Masako and Norman Takahashi with Santa Claus (ddr-densho-426-242)

Photo taken at Hale Brothers Department Store. Message inside cover: Greetings to Rev. and Mrs. Takahashi / Auntie Julia / Pinkie 3 yrs 11 months / Norman 2 yrs 5 months / December 1947 / San Francisco/ California USA

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doc Japanese American Courier Vol. 12, No. 622 (December 16, 1939) (ddr-densho-96-657)

Selected article titles: "California Young Electing Officers" (p. 1), "Pink Tea" (p. 2), "Hornets to Invade Fife Gym in Double-Aye Loop Opener" (p. 3), "Fraternal Risks Incite Study of Seattle Chapter" (p. 4)

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av Footage from Ties That Bind: Generations of Faith (2 of 3) (ddr-ajah-4-67)

Footage featuring services and interviews from the Buena Vista United Methodist Church in Alameda, California. Shot for a documentary commemorating Buena Vista's centennial called Ties That Bind: Generations of Faith, produced by Wendy Hanamura.

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av Footage from Ties That Bind: Generations of Faith (3 of 3) (ddr-ajah-4-68)

Footage featuring services and interviews from the Buena Vista United Methodist Church in Alameda, California. Shot for a documentary commemorating Buena Vista's centennial called Ties That Bind: Generations of Faith, produced by Wendy Hanamura.

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av Home movie footage of the wedding of Joanne Aiko Takeda and George Takata (ddr-ajah-4-76)

Home movie footage of the wedding of Joanne Aiko Takeda and George Takata at the Twin Towers Church in Alameda, California. Home movies taken by Haruo "Howe" Hanamura (April 10, 1919 - August 18, 2012).

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av Footage from Ties That Bind: Generations of Faith (1 of 3) (ddr-ajah-4-66)

Footage featuring services and interviews from the Buena Vista United Methodist Church in Alameda, California. Shot for a documentary commemorating Buena Vista's centennial called Ties That Bind: Generations of Faith, produced by Wendy Hanamura.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-4-66/

vh George Yano Interview (ddr-jamsj-2-11)

Sansei male. Born July 6, 1942, in Fort Lupton, Colorado. Compiled an extensive family history detailing parents' participation in a "voluntary evacuation" from Milpitas, California, to Fort Lupton, Colorado, in 1942, to avoid incarceration.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-2-11/

vh Nobuko Omoto Interview (ddr-densho-1001-11)

Nisei female. Born December 20, 1923, in Bainbridge Island, Washington. Removed along with family to Manzanar concentration camp, California, before moving to Minidoka, Idaho, in early 1943. Returned to Bainbridge Island after the war.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1001-11/

doc Letter from Martha Masako Nozawa to Tomoyuki Nozawa (ddr-densho-410-77)

Went to hear Roger Baldwin of the ACLU speak about incarceration and telling them that most officials now believe it was a mistake, enclosed a letter from Dr. Helen Mackler, a friend from California

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doc Telegram from Wilbur Takiguchi to Fumiko "Nellie" Itahara (ddr-ajah-6-532)

Caption below photo: Fumiko "Nellie" Itahara becomes the chairman for the Northern California Young People's Christian Conference. The NYYPCC held young adult events and conferences before and after World War II. October 6, 1937

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doc Letter to a Nisei man from his sister (ddr-densho-153-125)

Excerpt: "Thank you very much for your letter. Right now you won't get the letters I have written because I'm out of stamps." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, possibly to Camp Robinson, Arkansas.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-153-125/

doc Letter to a Nisei man from his sister (ddr-densho-153-72)

Excerpt: "As I went to the block office this morning, I was wondering what had happened to you because you didn't write for 1 week." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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img Japanese Americans serving food (ddr-densho-37-484)

Original WRA caption: Arcadia, California. Cafeteria-style assures promptness in serving meals at Santa Anita assembly center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Evacuees are transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

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img Salinas Assembly Center (ddr-densho-37-576)

Original WRA caption: Salinas Assembly Center, California. Panorama of Salinas Assembly center. Persons of Japanese ancestry evacuated from coastal areas were held first in assembly centers before being assigned to relocation centers further inland.

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img Talent show skit (ddr-densho-37-380)

Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Segregation Center, Newell, California. Skit by boys in talent show sponsored by Tri-State High School student body June 9 at Tule Lake Center to help finance the annual.

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img Construction of assembly center (ddr-densho-37-571)

Original WRA caption: Pomona, California. General view of assembly center being constructed on Pomona Fair Grounds for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Evacuees will be assigned later to War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

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img Japanese American playing golf (ddr-densho-37-464)

Original WRA caption: Topaz, Utah. This former California tournament runner-up keeps his golf form by first preparing a short course and then spending all his spare time with his irons and putting clubs.

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img Military police on watchtower (ddr-densho-37-392)

Original WRA caption: Arcadia, California. Military police on duty in watch-tower at the Santa Anita Assembly Center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Evacuees are transferred to War Relocation Authority Centers for the duration.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-392/

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