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img Mess hall (ddr-densho-151-433)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Messhall #16 at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. An evacuee of 290 persons are fed three meals a day in each messhall, and all work is done by the evacuees themselves.

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img Hospital bed near latrine (ddr-densho-151-475)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Hospital latrines, for patients, between the barracks, which serve temporarily as wards. For the first three months of occupancy medical facilities have been meager but the new hospital fully equipped, is almost ready for occupancy.

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img Japanese American working in garden (ddr-densho-151-372)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuee in her "hobby garden" which rates highest of all the garden plots at this War Relocation Authority center. Vegetables for their own use are grown in plots 10 x 50 feet between rows of barracks.

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img Japanese Americans watching baseball game (ddr-densho-151-392)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuees watching a baseball game at this War Relocation Authority center. This is a very popular recreation with 80 teams having been formed throughout the Center. Most of the playing is done between the barrack blocks.

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img Two Nisei boys observing mass removal (ddr-densho-151-151)

Original caption: San Francisco, California. High school boys, on balcony of Japanese American Citizens League at 2031 Bush Street, look down sidewalk where friends boarded evacuation buses. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

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img Japanese American inside barracks (ddr-densho-151-50)

Original WRA caption: San Bruno, California. A close-up of an entrance of a family apartment. Note that the windows in this unit have been enlarged. Five people occupy two small rooms, the inner one of which is without outside door or windows.

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img Japanese Americans boarding bus (ddr-densho-151-146)

Original caption: Byron, California. These families of Japanese ancestry, evacuated from farms in Contra Costa County, board bus for assembly center in Turlock Fairgrounds, 65 miles away. Evacuees will be transported later to War Relocation Authority centers where they will spend the duration.

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img Japanese Americans outside barracks (ddr-densho-151-252)

Original caption: Stockton, California. These evacuees of Japanese ancestry are spending their first day at this Assembly Point. The average age of the Nisei is 20 years. Later they will be transferred to a War Relocation Authority center to spend the duration.

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img Issei woman crying as she boards train (ddr-densho-151-293)

Original caption: Woodland, California. Women at railroad station on morning of departure of persons of Japanese ancestry from this agricultural community to the Merced Assembly center. The woman in the dark slack suit is one of the few exhibiting grief on leaving.

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img Japanese Americans registering for mass removal (ddr-densho-151-123)

Original caption: San Francisco, California. Japanese family heads and persons living alone, form a line outside Civil Control station located in the Japanese American Citizens League Auditorium at 2031 Bush Street, to appear for "processing" in response to Civilian Exclusion Order Number 20.

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img Mass removal sale (ddr-densho-151-78)

Original WRA caption: San Francisco, California. Shortly before evacuation of persons of Japanese ancestry from the Post and Buchanan Streets neighborhood, San Francisco. This dry goods store is closing out its merchandise. Evacuees will be housed at War Relocation Authority centers for duration.

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doc Clipping regarding Lucia Trent (ddr-njpa-1-2111)

Caption on front: Lucia Trent has an enviable record of achievement in the poetry world. The Pittsburgh Press once termed her and her husband Ralph Cheney 'The Brownings of America.' She lives in California and is coeditor of Horizons, a verse magazine."

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vh Ellen Watanabe-Huxtable Interview (ddr-chi-1-14)

Sansei female. Born in 1953 in Chicago, Illinois. Grew up hearing stories of her parents' wartime experiences at the Santa Anita Assembly Center and Manzanar concentration camp, California. After leaving camp, parents resettled in Chicago, Illinois, where Ellen was born and raised.

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vh Flora Ninomiya Interview (ddr-densho-1000-473)

Nisei female. Born April 8, 1935, in Richmond, California. Grew up in Richmond, where grandfather established a flower nursery business. During World War II, removed to the Amache concentration camp, Colorado. Returned to Richmond and resumed the family business after the war.

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vh Molly Enta Kitajima Interview (ddr-densho-1000-400)

Nisei female. Born October 10, 1925, in Strawberry Hill, British Columbia, near Vancouver. Grew up in Strawberry Hill where parents ran a farm. During World War II, family was removed inland to a farm near Winnipeg. Molly eventually married and moved to California.

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vh Kay Sakai Nakao Interview (ddr-densho-1001-3)

Nisei female. Born and raised in Bainbridge Island, Washington. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed with family to Manzanar concentration camp California, then later transferred to Minidoka, Idaho. Married while in Minidoka, and returned to Bainbridge Island after World War II.

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img [Group photo in front of buildings] (ddr-csujad-29-93)

Photograph of six individuals standing in front of two buildings in Japan. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P008

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doc Letter to a Nisei man from his brother (ddr-densho-153-210)

Excerpt: "I thought I'd put this extra line in because I just finished hearing the U.S.C., U.C.L.A. Basketball game, and the bruins won for the first time after forty-two (42) consecutive defeats." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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img Japanese Americans moving luggage (ddr-densho-37-386)

Original WRA caption: Salinas, California. These evacuees, having identified their belongings which were brought to this Assembly Center by truck, are not taking it to their barrack homes. Later, when housing is available, they will be moved to a War Relocation Authority center.

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doc Letter and clipping to Yuri Tsukada from Mine Okubo (ddr-densho-356-668)

Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Mine Okubo. Mine writes about how she would feel hosting house guests, how by living in New York City she never feels like she needs to travel for a vacation and encourages Yuri to travel to California.

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img Japanese Americans climbing Castle Rock (ddr-densho-37-178)

Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. A pleasant Sunday afternoon's recreation is spent by evacuee winter sports enthusiasts, on the slopes of Castle Mountain. Homemade sleds and various other homemade pieces of equipment were used by these young people.

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doc Pacific Citizen Vol. 22 No. 5 (ddr-densho-121-12)

Selected article titles: "California Demands Federal Government Maintain Financial Responsibility for Evacuees" (p. 1), "Window Smashed in Penryn Store Opened by Nisei Ex-GI" (p. 1), "Deportation Cases Will Be Handled by International Institute" (p. 1), "Hearing on Thirty Deportation Cases Postponed, Says Wirin" (p. 1), "Nisei Specialists Worked Behind Lines in Japan" (p. 1), "The Alien …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 17 No. 9 (September 4, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-34)

Selected article titles: "Japanese American Soldiers From Camp Shelby Sweep South Swim Championship" (p. 1), "Evacuee Children Face Denial Of Free Schooling in Idaho" (p. 1), "Additional External Security Measures Ordered by Army Commander for Tule Lake Camp. New Barbed-Wire Fence Being Erected at WRA Segregation Center; Augmented Military Guard Expected to Police Northern California Camp" …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 20 No. 8 (February 24, 1945) (ddr-pc-17-8)

Selected article titles: "Night-Riding Hoodlums Blamed For Second Shotgun Attack on Evacuee Home in Fresno Area" (p. 1), "500 Return To Homes in Coast States" (p. 1), "Target of Shotgun Attack Will Stay on California Farm" (p. 1), "100 Percent Increase in WRA Relocation Program Revealed By Secretary Ickes in Report" (p. 2), "Backbone of Coast …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 31 No. 23 (December 9, 1950) (ddr-pc-22-49)

Selected article titles: "Walter Measure Passed Unanimously by House. Race Against Time Develops to Obtain Senate Approval Before End of Short Session" (p. 1), "California Supreme Court Plans January Hearing on Alien Law Test Case" (p. 1), "U.S. Housing Official Told Of Discrimination Faced by Nisei Ex-GIs in Buying Homes" (p. 1), "Problems Confronting Nisei Given …

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