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img Wang Jingwei at the Qingdoa conference (ddr-njpa-1-1051)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "2nd Day of the Qingdao Conference. (Qingdao 26th). 1. The conference continued with Wang taking the lead. Photograph: (from right) Wen, Liang, Wang, Wang, Wang Kemin (taken at the reception hall on the 25th). [Stamped] January 26, 1940."

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img 10th Annual 4H Club camp 1931 (ddr-densho-359-7)

Group photograph of the attendess of the 4H Club Camp in 1931 at State College of Washington in Pullman, Washing. Written on the back of the photograph "Mrs. Pearl Munn Leland, Wash. Jefferson Co. Staying at Stevens hall. 10 annual Alice Kawamoto".

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img Obon Festival Dance Rehearsal (ddr-one-1-306)

Black and white photographic negative of small audience watching the Obon dance rehearsal inside Norse Hall in Northeast Portland. Obon is an annual event hosted by the Oregon Buddhist Church (now known as Oregon Buddhist Temple) and attended by the wider Nikkei community.

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doc Tulean Dispatch Vol. 5 No. 1 (March 22, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-182)

Selected article titles: "High Schools To Reopen Thurs." (p. 1), "Shortage: Milk Cans Unreturned" (p. 1), "Workers' Buttons" (p. 1), "Outside Job Office is Moved to Visitors Hall" (p. 1), "Registration Answer Changes: Question 27, 28 "No" Replies May Be Altered to "Yes" Smith Says" (p. 1), "Outside Job Office Is Moved to Visitors Hall" (p. …

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Narrator Harry Ueno

Nisei male. Born April 14, 1907, in Pauilo, Hawaii. Lived in Japan from 1915 to 1923, and settled on the mainland upon his return to the United States. Was married in 1930, and was removed along with family to Manzanar concentration camp, California, during World War II. While in Manzanar, organized the Mess Hall Workers Union. …

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doc Heart Mountain Sentinel Supplement Series 146 (November 16, 1943) (ddr-densho-97-368)

Selected article titles: "Representative of FBIs Here to Recruit Translators" (p. 1), "More Job Offers Received at Outside Employment Office" (p. 2), "Hostel Representative Available for Interviews" (p. 2), "Federal Excise Tax to be Collected" (p. 3), "Recreation Hall Permits Must be Renewed" (p. 3).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 50 No. 7 (February 12, 1960) (ddr-pc-32-7)

Select article titles: "JACL viewed as 'best insurance' against repeal of bitter prejudice of prewar eras" (p.1); "JACL Chapters urged to support Civil Rights Push" (p. 1); "Yamasaki named architect for Century 21 Exposition $3 1/2-million hall of science" (p.6)

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 104, No. 16 (April 24, 1987) (ddr-pc-59-16)

Selected article titles: "Parallel Between Treatment of Palestinians and JAs Seen" (pp. 1, 3), "Hirabayashi, Other Asians Listed in Wash. Hall of Fame" (pp. 1, 3), "Conference to Look at How to Resolve Inter-Ethnic Conflict" (p. 3), and "Action in the Senate" (p. 4).

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img Farm crew (ddr-densho-151-389)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Farm crew of which Johnny Fukazawa is foreman. These men are ready to return to the center's mess hall for lunch after a busy morning in the fields of the farm project at this War Relocation Authority center.

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doc Minidoka Irrigator Vol. V No. 22 (July 28, 1945) (ddr-densho-119-148)

Selected article titles: "Four Dining Hall Closures Announced" (p. 1), "Relocatees Assistance Asked by D.S. Myer" (p. 1), "Irrigator Pays Tribute to Hunt Men Killed in Action" (p. 1), "The Last Chapter" (p. 2), "We Come to the End -- Looking to the Future" (p. 4).

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img Arts and crafts festival (ddr-densho-37-504)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Evacuee residents at the Granada Relocation Center, viewing exhibits at the Arts and Crafts Festival in Terry Hall, March 6th to 8th. This festival was sponsored by the Education Division and the "Pioneer," the center newspaper.

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doc Report titled: "Brief Report of the Kibei Meeting Held at Mess Hall 15" (ddr-densho-67-43)

Letter and report sent by Fred Tayama to Major Rudisill. The report is entitled: "Brief Report of the Kibei Meeting Held at Mess Hall 15." Tayama requests that renunciation of American citizenship be permitted, and segregation of the "disloyal" Japanese commenced. Meeting focused on internal improvement issues, arguments and tension between pro-Japanese and pro-American individuals.

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img William Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury speaking in the Royal Albert Hall (ddr-njpa-1-89)

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img William Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury speaking in the Royal Albert Hall (ddr-njpa-1-90)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "Archibishop of Canterbury as Moderator. (London) Domei. An anti-Japanese public meeting held by The News Chronicle, a paper aligned with the Liberal Party, was moderated by the Archbishop of Canterbury on the night of October 5 at Royal Albert Hall and attended by people from all over. The Archbishop's address was followed …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 60, No. 17 (April 23, 1965) (ddr-pc-37-17)

Selected article titles: "Alan Kumamoto Designated National JACL Youth Director" (p.1), "U.S. Agrees to Pay Nisei Family for Personal Effects Lost in Dec. 7 Bombing" (p.1), "2 Issei Chosen for Garden Hall of Fame" (p.1), "Bitter Young Republicans Get Their Comeuppance" (p.2).

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doc Tanforan Totalizer Vol. I No. 2 (May 23, 1942) (ddr-densho-149-2)

Selected article titles: "Employment Procedure Established" (p. 1), "Center to Hold First Flag Ceremony Sunday" (p. 1), "Tanforan Roll Call Now 7796" (p. 1), "Camp Directory Due Next Week" (p. 1), "200 Lost Articles Turn Up in Bureau" (p. 3), "1st Town Hall Meeting Set" (p. 4).

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img [Nisei Week] (ddr-csujad-29-238)

Photograph of Los Angeles Nisei Week from San Pedro Street with City Hall in the background. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P181

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img Shamans of the Lala tribe participating in a ritual (ddr-njpa-13-1038)

Caption on front: "A witch court held by members of the Wa-Lala tribe in Rhodesia. A scene from 'Jungle Gods', the illustrated lecture to be given by Captain Carl von Hoffman at the University Lecture hall Thursday evening."; Writing on reverse: "Witch court, Wa-Lala"

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img Northwest division of Methodist women, Hood River conference (ddr-densho-259-164)

Caption in Japanese at bottom of photograph: "Northwest division of Methodist women, Hood River conference." Caption by Homer Yasui: "A large print gathering of some Hood River Issei , together with a large number of out-of-town Issei women in front of the Hood River Community Hall."

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doc Minutes from the Heart Mountain Community Council meeting, November 12, 1943 (ddr-csujad-55-490)

Minutes from the Heart Mountain Community Council meeting. Includes report on purchasing recreation hall equipment. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0492

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img Seven women and teacher posing on steps outside church (ddr-ajah-4-41)

Caption below photo: Mas Miyauchi poses with his Sunday School students on the steps of the Sunday School building, now known as the social hall of the Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Alameda, CA.. Marge was born in 1915 making this photo circa the early 1930s.

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img Group of buildings (ddr-ajah-2-801)

Caption: Mess Hall, Camp Savage, Minnesota, October 1942 to October 1943. Joe Iwataki, of Alameda, CA., was there to learn better Japanese as part of the Military Intelligence Service (MIS), and all Japanese America unit during WWII. Supplemental scan of ddr-ajah-2-421 with additional notes

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av San Francisco Courthouse footage, part 1 of 10 (ddr-densho-1007-1622)

Several shots of a man and woman walking through a hall at the Superior Court of San Francisco. Original title: 101, II SF CT #1, 8-9-85, SF Court. Footage continues at ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1623/

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Monroe Sweetland and Shig Kihara walking and talking about the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center; exterior shots of the Center (ddr-densho-1007-1662)

av Monroe Sweetland and Shig Kihara walking and talking about the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center; exterior shots of the Center (ddr-densho-1007-1662)

Exterior shots of Sweetland and Kihara walking into Hachiya Hall; stills of signage outside; Kihara and Sweetland walking together and discussing the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. Video starts at 0:29. Original title: 146, II MON #14, 9-9-85, DF Walk, Shig & Monroe

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vh Harry Ueno Interview Segment 37 (ddr-densho-1002-7-37)

Description of organization of mess hall workers in Manzanar

This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead …

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