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Robert Coombs Interview Segment 33 (ddr-densho-1000-146-33)
Sharing wartime experiences with children
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Robert Coombs Interview Segment 24 (ddr-densho-1000-146-24)
Encountering prejudice while in Twin Falls, Idaho, buying goods for the Japanese Americans in Minidoka
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Robert Coombs Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-146-9)
Unable to serve in the military when drafted due to medical problems; suspecting that the U.S. would eventually become involved in World War II
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Robert Coombs Interview Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-146-2)
Growing up in Sacramento, California, losing father at an early age
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Robert Coombs Interview Segment 20 (ddr-densho-1000-146-20)
Mother comes to visit in Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho
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Robert Coombs Interview Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-146-11)
Teaching high school after the outbreak of war, feeling sadness when Japanese American students were taken out of school
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Robert Coombs Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-146-6)
Emerging interest in drama classes and stage acting in school
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Robert Coombs Interview Segment 27 (ddr-densho-1000-146-27)
Getting married on Christmas Day, having three children
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Robert Coombs Interview Segment 23 (ddr-densho-1000-146-23)
Unique challenge of teaching Japanese American students about democracy while in a concentration camp: democracy in the U.S. is "imperfect"
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Ninth Grade Report Card (ddr-densho-474-147)
Starr Urakawa's ninth grade report card from Hunt High School.
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Notecard from the 5th and 6th grade core class, Minidoka incarceration camp, to Mr. Robert Coombs, July 21, 1943 (ddr-csujad-55-138)
Thank you card from the 5th and 6th grade core class to Mr. Coombs in the Minidoka incarceration camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0140
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Minidoka Irrigator Vol. I No. 14 (October 31, 1942) (ddr-densho-119-13)
Selected article titles: "Barbed Wire Seen for Community" (p. 1), "Four Soldiers Visit Hunt" (p. 1), "N.M. Internee Arrives Here" (p. 1), "Army Intelligence Calls Sansei, Kibei" (p. 1), "Hirabayashi, Convicted, Asks for Longer Sentence Term" (p. 1), "Green Stamps Replace Cash Register Receipts" (p. 2), "National YWCA Leader Here for Conference Next Week" (p. 2), …
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Minidoka Irrigator Vol. I No. 12 (October 24, 1942) (ddr-densho-119-11)
Selected article titles: "More Evacuees Expected. Relief Seen for Pressing Labor Needs" (p. 1), "Eligibility to Old-Age Benefits Not Affected by Work Here" (p. 1), "Area Center Boundaries Are Defined" (p. 1), "Co-op Workers Get September Pay; Others Must Await Turns" (p. 1), "Clothing Allowances Will Be Calculated From 1st of July" (p. 2), "Routine Check-ups …
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Minidoka Irrigator Vol. I No. 18 (November 14, 1942) (ddr-densho-119-17)
Selected article titles: "No Electrified Fence! Charged Wires Unauthorized" (p. 1), "Evacuees Aid in Saving Beet Crop" (p. 1), "Stafford Soon to Get Draft of Constitution" (p. 1), "1,319 Students Prepared For High School Opening Monday" (p. 1), "Editorial: A Crop is Saved" (p. 2), "U.S. History Course Offered in First Night School Class" (p. 2), …
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Memoirs 1943 - Minidoka High School Yearbook (ddr-densho-474-48)
Yearbook for the Minidoka High School, property of Starr Urakawa. The school included grades 8-12. Individual students are photographed in senior portraits or class photos. Student activities are represented, including student labor/work experience program ("part-time workers"), May Day royalty, and sports. Student signatures are included throughout the book.
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