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img Kimitomo Mushakoji at an exhibition with his wife (ddr-njpa-4-1123)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "Domei International News photo. Farmers' Hands Industrial Goods popular in Berlin. (Berlin). The exhibition of Farmers' Hands Industrial Goods held here recently is attracting the interest of Berlin's citizens with its peculiar exquisiteness and ideas. The picture shows our ambassador to Germany, Mushakoji, and his wife at the exhibition hall."

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doc Pacific Citizen, Whole No. 2140, Vol. 92, No. 21 (May 29, 1981) (ddr-pc-53-21)

Selected article titles: "Autos: Bright hopes or more backlash due?" (p. 1), "Camp files in U.S. archives available upon personal query" (p. 1), "Office of Hawaiian Affairs-JACL tie on redress seen" (p. 1), "Town in Hiroshima to build hall as Auschwitz memorial" (p. 2), "What Is a JACL National Youth Conference?" (p. 5).

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doc Rohwer Outpost Vol. II No. 39 (May 15, 1943) (ddr-densho-143-61)

Selected article titles: "Compensation Rules Given" (p. 1), "Camp Savage Men Here to Interview Students" (p. 1), "Center Constitution. Revised Community Formula for Government Distributed" (p. 1), "Claim Lost Goods at P.S. Hall 13" (p. 2), "Crystal City Conditions Given Favorable Comment" (p. 3), "Editorials: Large Scale Farming" (p. 6), "More Agitation?" (p. 6).

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doc Granada Pioneer Vol. I No. 57 (April 17, 1943) (ddr-densho-147-58)

Selected article titles: "Evacuees are Allowed to Re-enter Center" (p. 1), "Gila News Faces Paper Shortage" (p. 1), "Opinion of Justice Department Awaited" (p. 3), "Dual Citizenship Attacked by State" (p. 3), "Cherry Trees are Americans" (p. 3), "Chapin Hall Questions Loyalty of Japanese" (p. 3), "Illegal Liquor Sale to be Investigated" (p. 3).

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doc Laborers pass to ride, Form WRA-TL-933, Osamu Oseto (ddr-csujad-55-1901)

Pass permitting Osamu Oseto to ride to and from the mess hall for work at Tule Lake incarceration camp. Form WRA-TL-933. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1904

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Memo from Social and Entertainment Dept., Community Activities, Heart Mountain, to Block Councilmen, Block Manager, Young People's Club, April 12, 1944 (ddr-csujad-55-720)

doc Memo from Social and Entertainment Dept., Community Activities, Heart Mountain, to Block Councilmen, Block Manager, Young People's Club, April 12, 1944 (ddr-csujad-55-720)

Correspondence from Young People's Club to Block Councilmen Block Manager regarding a contest for the best recreation hall at Heart Mountain incarceration camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0722

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img Group photo in front of the Topaz Community Cooperative Enterprises building (ddr-densho-292-2)

Caption on reverse: "Topaz Community Cooperative Enterprises. Coop @ Topaz management of movies. Mary Kaibe - 3rd from right, back row. Age 17. Mary left - government gave her $50 to go to Chicago to get work (after 3 1/2 years). Torakichi Nishioka worked in mess hall - washing dishes for $16 month (doctor [?] got …

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img Obon Festival Dance Rehearsal (ddr-one-1-304)

Black and white photographic negative of Obon dancers practicing an Odori folk dance inside Norse Hall in Northeast Portland. First Obon dancer from the left is identified as Yukiye Itoyama. 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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Narrator Roy H. Matsumoto

Nisei male. Born May 1, 1913, in Laguna, California. Lived in Japan from childhood through teenage years, before returning to the United States during high school. Incarcerated in the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. Volunteered for the U.S. army in 1942, and was inducted in the Military Intelligence Service. Selected …

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vh Harry Ueno Interview Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1002-7-13)

Working in the camp mess hall: making do when certain foods are in short supply

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 …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 78, No. 24 (June 21, 1974) (ddr-pc-46-24)

Selected article titles: "Nisei Lauded for Nabbing Slayer of Nisei Woman" (p. 1), "L.A. Nisei Veterans Defend Display of Captured Japanese Artifacts at Hall" (pp. 1, 3), "Senate Passes U.S.-Japan Friendship Act, Sets Up $32-Million Trust Fund" (pp. 1, 3), and "Campaign to Save Whales Upstaged by Call for Boycott of Japanese Goods" (p. 1).

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img Nisei soldier doing laundry (ddr-densho-114-20)

Original caption: Charmois Area, France. Americans of Japanese descent of the 442nd Combat Team, 100th Inf. Bn., in bivouac prepare to go into the front lines for their first contact with the Germans in France. Here Pfc. Billy S. Takaezu, 1254 Hall St., Honolulu, hangs out his laundry to dry. U.S. Seventh Army. 12 October 1944.

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img The fall of Santa Luce (ddr-densho-114-135)

Original caption: Santa Luce, Italy. American troops of Japanese descent of the 100th Inf. Bn., 34th Division, U.S. Fifth Army, peer through glasses from the flag-bedecked city hall of Santa Luce to the level country ahead, before the gates of Leghorn, Italy. Santa Luce has just fallen to the Allies, 14 July 1944. U.S. Fifth Army.

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doc Poston Information Bulletin Vol. II No. 6 (June 18, 1942) (ddr-densho-145-32)

Selected article titles: "Two Wards, Mess Hall are Opened Today, in New Poston General Hospital" (p. 1), "Bath House is Planned for Guayule Project. 2000 Seedlings Arrive Here from Salinas; Vegetable Tract is Subjugated" (p. 1), "Printers, Pressmen, Linotypers" (p. 2), "Poston Beauty Shoppe. Poston Community Beauty Shoppe Now Open" (p. 2), "Report on Sanitation" (p. …

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img Hawaii Cancer Society presidents posing with leis (ddr-njpa-2-479)

Caption on reverse: "HAWAII TIMES. Mr. J. Robert Judd (left), newly elected president of the Hawaii Cancer Society's Oahu Chapter, is shown with Dr. Grover H. Batten, outgoing president, following the Society's annual meeting and premiere of the locally produced cancer movie 'Decision For Life' on Tuesday, September 24, at MacNeil Hall on the Punahou campus."

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img View between barracks (ddr-densho-37-747)

Original WRA caption: Looking down the rows of barracks westward from block 44. At extreme left is a corner of the dining hall where 275 to 300 residents of the block eat. At center background is the sanitization building including showers, lavatories, toilets, and washtubs. Nearly all the residents planted flowers and vegetable gardens in front …

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doc Meal ticket (ddr-csujad-55-1972)

Meal ticket belonging to Masako Adachi, used at Tule Lake incarceration camp. Verso includes mess hall rules. From the Masako Adachi scrapbook, page 20. See also sac_jaac_1953. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1975

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doc Mess No. 3: barrack name list of mess tags issued (ddr-csujad-55-857)

List of names, addresses, and number of mess tags issued by Mess and Lodging Department, Pomona Temporary Assembly Center, to incarcerees for Mess Hall #3. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0859

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doc Notice to report to work on project, W.P.A. Form 402, Masami Iwasa (ddr-csujad-55-169)

Notice for Masami Iwasa to report to work as a laborer in Mess Hall A-1 at Pinedale temporary detention center. W.P.A. Form 402. Federal Works Agency, See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0171

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doc Mess No. 4: barrack name list of mess tags issued (ddr-csujad-55-858)

List of names, addresses, and number of mess tags issued issued by Mess and Lodging Department, Pomona Temporary Assembly Center, to incarcerees for Mess Hall #4. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0860

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doc General plan of activity spacing (ddr-csujad-55-725)

List of recreational activities at Heart Mountain incarceration camp specifying block number, recreation hall number, and location at the north or south end of camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0727

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img Parade in Mo'oheau Park (ddr-densho-492-24)

Photograph of a large group of sailors from the Anegawa Maru marching through a crowd in Mo'oheau Park. Written on the front of the photograph in the upper left corner is "Hilo" in blue ink. Written on the back is "Anegawa's sailor are marching at Mooheau Park before the Selebratio [sic] at Mooheau Hall Oct. 9th …

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img Obon Festival Dance Rehearsal (ddr-one-1-301)

Black and white photographic negative of Obon dancers practicing an Odori folk dance inside Norse Hall in Northeast Portland. Third Obon dancer from the left is identified as Shizuko "Shiz" (Ochiai) Ota Okazaki. Obon is an annual event hosted by the Oregon Buddhist Church (now known as Oregon Buddhist Temple) and attended by the wider Nikkei …

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img Obon Festival Dance Rehearsal (ddr-one-1-305)

Black and white photographic negative of small audience watching the Obon dance rehearsal inside Norse Hall in Northeast Portland. Fifth from the right standing up in back row of the audience is Larry Tamiyasu. Obon is an annual event hosted by the Oregon Buddhist Church (now known as Oregon Buddhist Temple) and attended by the wider …

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img Obon Festival Dance Rehearsal (ddr-one-1-310)

Black and white photographic negative of Obon dancers rehearsing an Odori folk dance in front of a small audience inside Norse Hall. Obon dancers from left to right: Shig Yuzuriha, Shig Oka, and Hiro Okayama. Obon is an annual event hosted by the Oregon Buddhist Church (now known as Oregon Buddhist Temple) and attended by the …

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