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img Japanese Americans boarding bus (ddr-densho-151-142)

Original caption: Byron, California. Farm families of Japanese ancestry boarding buses for Turlock Assembly Center 65 miles away. An official of the Wartime Civil Control Administration is checking the families into the bus by number.

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img Japanese Americans arriving at Tanforan (ddr-densho-151-159)

Original caption: San Bruno, California. Families of Japanese ancestry arrive at assembly center at Tanforan Race Track. Evacuees will be transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers where they will be housed for the duration.

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img Japanese Americans boarding bus (ddr-densho-151-260)

Original caption: San Francisco, California. One more busload about to depart from the Japanese quarter of San Francisco to the Tanforan Assembly center. The Japanese onlookers will themselves have been evacuated within a few days.

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img Japanese Americans arriving at Tanforan (ddr-densho-151-160)

Original caption: San Bruno, California. Family of Japanese ancestry arrives at assembly center at Tanforan Race Track. Evacuees will be transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers where they will be housed for the duration.

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img Japanese American workers prior to mass removal (ddr-densho-151-90)

Original caption: Stockton, California. Cutting potato seed on an industrialized farm where, before evacuation, all work was done by persons of Japanese ancestry. Evacuees will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

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img Japanese American family arriving at Tanforan (ddr-densho-151-154)

Original caption: San Bruno, California. Family of Japanese ancestry arrives at assembly center at Tanforan Race track. Evacuees will be transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers where they will be housed for the duration.

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img Japanese Americans waiting in line for inoculations (ddr-densho-151-131)

Original caption: San Francisco, California. Waiting in line, 2031 Bush Street, for voluntary inoculation against typhoid, preceding evacuation of residents of Japanese ancestry. Evacuees will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

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img Japanese Americans making camouflage nets (ddr-densho-151-55)

Original WRA 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 American family arriving at Tanforan (ddr-densho-151-156)

Original caption: San Bruno, California. Family of Japanese ancestry arrives at assembly center at Tanforan Race Track. Evacuees will be transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers where they will be housed for the duration.

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img Japanese Americans arriving at Tanforan (ddr-densho-151-161)

Original caption: San Bruno, California. Families of Japanese ancestry arrive at assembly center at Tanforan Race Track. Evacuees will be transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers where they will be housed for the duration.

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img Young Japanese American during mass removal (ddr-densho-151-40)

Original WRA caption: Hayward, California. A young evacuee looks out the window of the evacuation bus before it starts for Tanforan Assembly Center. Evacuees will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

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vh Akio Suyematsu Interview (ddr-densho-1001-16)

Nisei male. Born October 30, 1921, in Bainbridge Island, Washington. Removed to Manzanar concentration camp, California, and was drafted into the U.S. army. Returned to Bainbridge Island after the war and established a successful farm.

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av Howe Hanamura and Wendy Hanamura at Min Nakayama Court, and interview with Howe Hanamura (ddr-ajah-6-312)

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

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img Stanton Radiator (ddr-csujad-29-89)

Photograph of Stanton Radiator. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P004

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img [Portrait of George Fukasawa] (ddr-csujad-29-103)

Portrait of George Fukasawa. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P018

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img [Portrait of Seiko Ishida] (ddr-csujad-29-101)

Portrait of Seiko Ishida. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P016

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img [Portrait of Kango Kunitsugu] (ddr-csujad-29-96)

Portrait of Kango Kunitsugu. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P011

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img [Portrait of Robert Brown] (ddr-csujad-29-106)

Portrait of Robert Brown. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P021

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img [Portrait of Tom Yamamoto] (ddr-csujad-29-105)

Portrait of Tom Yamamoto. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P020

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img [Portrait of Mitsuye Endo] (ddr-csujad-29-112)

Portrait of Mitsuye Endo. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P032

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img [Portrait of Roy Kobayashi] (ddr-csujad-29-113)

Portrait of Roy Kobayashi. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P033

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doc Postcard to a Nisei man from his sister (ddr-densho-153-206)

Excerpt: "Joe, received your letters but have been too busy to answer because of the coming final exams of one-and-a-half hours each." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Camp Robinson, Arkansas.

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img Military police on watchtower (ddr-densho-37-393)

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

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img Mass removal (ddr-densho-37-585)

Original WRA caption: Salinas, California. Evacuees of Japanese ancesty wait for the bus which will take them to the Salinas Assembly center. They will later be transferred to War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

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vh Art Hansen Interview (ddr-densho-122-23)

White male. Born October 10, 1938, in Hoboken, New Jersey. Education History: BA, MA, Ph.D. at University of California, Santa Barbara. Work History: Professor of History and Asian American Studies, California State University, Fullerton (1966-Present); Visiting Professor, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 1979-1980; Editor, Oral History Review, 1980-1987; President, Southwest Oral History Association (1991-1992); …

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