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img Japanese Americans transferring to a different camp (ddr-densho-37-792)

Original WRA caption: Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. Fairwell hand clasps as the train bearing 500 Jerome residents leaves for the Gila River Center.

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img Leaving camp (ddr-densho-37-614)

Original WRA caption: Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. Jerome residents who are to be sent to the Granada Center wait in trucks to entrain.

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img Aerial view of the Jerome concentration camp (ddr-densho-37-630)

Original WRA caption: Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. A view of the west section of the hospital.

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img Japanese Americans harvesting cabbages (ddr-densho-37-807)

Original WRA caption: Jerome Relocation Center, Dermott, Arkansas. Cutting cabbages which have been left for winter harvest.

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img Goro Sato family at Jerome Camp (ddr-ajah-6-216)

Caption below photo: Sato family of Alameda, CA., in Jerome, Arkansas. When Jerome closed in June 1944, they moved tot the incarceration camp at Gila, Arizona. Photo January 1943

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img Two children at Jerome Camp (ddr-ajah-6-214)

Caption below photo: Kiyo Sato and her brother, Kazuyoshi, in Jerome, Arkansas, 1943. Written on front: Summer 1943

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img Camp entrance (ddr-densho-37-798)

Original WRA caption: Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. Last glimpse of the Jerome Center as residents leave by train to take up their residents at another center.

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Collection Arikawa Family Collection (ddr-densho-187)

The Arikawa collection consists primarily of photographs taken at the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas, along with some family photographs.

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img Military Police barracks (ddr-densho-37-801)

Original WRA caption: Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. The quarters of the Military Police at the entrance to the Jerome Center are practically deserted as most of the gurards have been returned to their home base at Monticello, Arkansas, and only a few remainded for the final closing operations.

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doc Roster of incarcerees leaving from Fresno Assembly Center to Jerome, Arkansas (ddr-csujad-55-125)

List of "evacuees" slated for removal from the Fresno Temporary Assembly Center to the Jerome incarceration camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0127

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img Camp kitchen crew (ddr-densho-37-619)

Original WRA caption: Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. The Block 7 kitchen crew pauses for a picture in the early afternoon.

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img Mess hall interior (ddr-densho-37-804)

Original WRA caption: Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. The interior of the mess hall in Block 7 in the early afternoon.

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img Sixth graders exercising (ddr-densho-37-478)

Original WRA caption: Jerome Relocation Center, Dermott, Arkansas. View of 5th and 6th graders going through their exercises on elementary school grounds.

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img U.S.O. show (ddr-densho-37-625)

Original WRA caption: Jerome Relocation Center, Dermott, Arkansas. First U.S.O. [United Services Organizations] show held in the M.P.P.X. [Military Police Post Exchange].

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img Group of men posing for photo (ddr-ajah-6-223)

Caption below photo: Directors and Block Leaders, Jerome, Arkansas, circa 1943-1944. Top row, far left is Goro Sato of Alameda, CA.

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doc Fresno Grapevine Vol. II No. 18 (September 28, 1942) (ddr-densho-190-38)

Selected article titles: "It's Arkansas! Movement to Jerome Will Begin October 14. Advance Crew to Entrain for Low Lands October 2" (p. 1), "Facts on New Home Revealed" (p. 1), "Jerome at a Glance" (p. 2).

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img Military Police barracks (ddr-densho-37-800)

Original WRA caption: Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. "Old Glory" is lowered for the last time over the Military Police barracks at the Jerome Center. Corporal Thomas Savage stands at attention as the emblem begins its descent. As most of the Military Guards had returned to their base at Monticello, Arkansas, formal retreat …

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img Medical examination (ddr-densho-37-627)

Original WRA caption: Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. A former Californian, Doctor Fugikawa, examining a patient, S. Ego, in the center hospital fluroscope.

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img Japanese American children in the rain (ddr-densho-37-628)

Original WRA caption: Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. One umbrella wasn't enough for these lads of Japanese ancestry, who formerly lived in west coast areas. The rainy season, in Arkansas, makes the relocation center one vast guagmire.

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img Leaving camp (ddr-densho-37-616)

Original WRA caption: Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. Jerome residents with their hand luggage wait at the chair car entrance for their names to be called by the War Relocation Authority official checking the list.

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Collection Denson Tribune Collection (ddr-densho-144)

This collection consists of the Denson Tribune, a newspaper published by the inmates at the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. The paper was published from 1942 until 1944.

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doc [Leaflets related to Rohwer Arkansas Relocation Center] (ddr-csujad-1-48)

Contains leaflets for "Rohwer and Jerome Relocation Centers" symposium sponsored by the Center for Arkansas Studies at University of Arkansas, Little Rock, in 1993 and Rohwer/Jerome monument dedication trip tour in 1992; and a letter from Nick Katsuki, Chairman, Rohwer Arkansas Relocation Center Research and Preservation Committee, in 1991. See this object in the California State …

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img Japanese Americans making furniture (ddr-densho-37-622)

Original WRA caption: Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. Two workmen, in the cabinet shop, constructing furnitrure for school and center office use, operating a planer.

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img Japanese American chopping wood (ddr-densho-37-611)

Original WRA caption: Jerome Relocation Center, Dermott, Arkansas. Evacuees at the Jerome Relocation Center chop their own wood in nearby wooded areas. After it is sawed and split to convenient size for burning stoves it is piled alongside each barrack.

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img Man and woman standing outside barracks (ddr-ajah-6-218)

Caption below photo: Roberta Yamamoto and Goro Sato, Jerome, Arkansas, May 1943 Goro was from Alameda, CA. Written on photo front: M. Roberta Yamamoto May, 1943

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