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img Preschool class (ddr-densho-151-331)

Original caption: San Bruno, California. Pre-school evacuee children leaving the building for recess at this assembly center. There are about 25 children enrolled with six volunteer student teachers being trained by a Mills College graduate, all of Japanese ancestry.

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img Issei farmer in working in field (ddr-densho-151-211)

Original caption: Mountain View, California. Weeding garlic field in Santa Clara County prior to evacuation. Farmers and other evacuees of Japanese descent will be given opportunities to follow their callings in War Relocation Authority centers where they will spend the duration.

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img Horse stalls at Tanforan Assembly Center (ddr-densho-151-30)

Original WRA caption: San Bruno, California. Near view of horse-stall, left from the days when what is now Tanforan Assembly Center, was the famous Tanforan Race Track. Most of these stalls have been converted into family living quarters for Japanese.

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img Mass removal (ddr-densho-151-48)

Original WRA caption: Oakland, California. Baggage of evacuees of Japanese ancestry piled on the sidewalk. The Greyhound huses will soon arrive to take this baggage as well as the evacuees to the Tanforan Assembly center under Civilian Exclusion Order Number 28.

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img Loading baggage onto truck (ddr-densho-151-180)

Original caption: Centerville, California. Piling baggage of evacuees from this Alameda County farming community on the day before evacuation to assembly centers. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers where they will spend the duration.

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img Temporary hospital barracks (ddr-densho-151-70)

Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Emergency hospital housed in temporary quarters at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancesrty. The modern new hospital is almost ready for occupancy as shown in Photo C-851.

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img Japanese Americans in front of camp newspaper office (ddr-densho-93-2)

Original Ansel Adams caption: Roy Takeno (Editor) and group reading Manzanar paper in front of office, Yuichi Harata, Nabuo Samamura, Manzanar Relocation Center, California. (Note: original caption contains misspellings. "Harata" should be, "Hirata", and "Nabuo Samamura" should be, "Nobuo Sawamura".)

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img Tule Lake fire damage (ddr-csujad-3-12)

Photograph of burnt buildings demolished by fire at Tule Lake. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: tos_01_001_013

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vh Gary Yamagiwa Interview (ddr-chi-1-7)

Sansei male. Born May 8, 1953, in Chicago, Illinois. Parents were Nisei, sent to the concentration camps at Poston, Arizona, Manzanar and Tule Lake, California, during World War II. After leaving camp, resettled in Chicago, where Gary was born and raised.

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vh Tats Kojima Interview (ddr-densho-1001-10)

Nisei male. Born 1923 in Bainbridge Island, Washington. Age 18 when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, was removed with family to Manzanar concentration camp, California. Later transferred to the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Became an auto mechanic after World War II.

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vh Eiko Shibayama Interview (ddr-densho-1001-14)

Nisei female. Born 1929 in Bainbridge Island, Washington. Grew up helping on family's farm before being removed to Manzanar concentration camp, California, during World War II. Transferred with family to Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho, and eventually returned to Bainbridge Island.

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doc English translation of: The Imperial Japanese Government Passport for Moritaro Ishida (ddr-csujad-29-7)

A passport for Moritaro Ishida issued on March 23, 1916. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 1339_M01_02

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img World Friendship Group (ddr-csujad-29-22)

Photograph of Sakaye Shigekawa with the World Friendship Group. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 2490_P16

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img [Photograph of Katsumi and Kango Kunitsugu] (ddr-csujad-29-99)

Photograph of Katsumi and Kango Kunitsugu, presumably at a party. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P014

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img [Katsumi and Kango Kunitsugu] (ddr-csujad-29-97)

Photograph of Katsumi and Kango Kunitsugu, presumably at a party. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P012

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img [Portrait of Albert Aigner] (ddr-csujad-29-100)

Portrait of Albert Aigner, presumably at a his home. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P015

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img [Photograph of Japanese American incarceree workers] (ddr-csujad-29-107)

Photograph of three Japanese American incarceree workers planting trees. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P023

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doc Letter to a Nisei man from his sister (ddr-densho-153-139)

Excerpt: "I'm awfully sorry I made you mad as a hornet by telling you about that rumor but I had to let you know what really was going around." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, possibly to Camp Robinson, Arkansas.

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doc Letter to a Nisei man from his sister (ddr-densho-153-33)

Excerpt: "What do you know, well I'm going to be a A9 next Monday & I sure am glad this semesters over & next semester im going to have to study real hard." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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img Military police guarding camp boundary (ddr-densho-37-472)

Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuees are shown returning to the center for lunch after clearing the land of brush and weeds around the boundary of this War Relocation Authority center. Army Military Police guard these boundaries.

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img Japanese Americans with luggage (ddr-densho-37-580)

Original WRA caption: Salinas Assembly center, Salinas, California. Persons of Japanese ancestry are shown with their luggage, shortly after arrival at this Assembly center. Later on, when housing is available, they will be transferred to a War Relocation Authority center.

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img High school graduation (ddr-densho-37-325)

Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Segregation Center, Newell, California. Guy Ceek, assistant high school principal of Tri-State High School at Tule Lake Center, hands out honor awards at commencement exercises June 16. This was the first commencement since segregation.

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doc Colma Japanese Cemetery expanding plan (ddr-densho-537-134)

The Japanese Benevolent Society of California's expanding plan for the Colma Japanese Cemetery.

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doc Manzanar diary (ddr-csujad-34-1)

One diary written by Hiroshi Fukuwa, a Kibei Nisei of Los Angeles, California. His diary starts from his departing day from Los Angeles to move into the Manzanar incarceration camp as one of the first group of volunteer incacerees. He was transferred to the Gila River camp, Arizona, to join his brother's family, and segregated into …

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doc Letter from Ayame and Masao Okine to Mr. and Mrs. Okine, October 18, 1946 [in Japanese] (ddr-csujad-5-172)

A letter from Masao and Ayame Okine to their parents, Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine. Masao reports to his parents about his arrival to Chicago after his discharge from the U.S. Army, serving as a Nisei solder in Japan. He describes his life in Chicago, such as buying a car and driving to New York to see …

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