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img High school graduation (ddr-densho-37-325)

Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Segregation Center, Newell, California. Guy Ceek, assistant high school principal of Tri-State High School at Tule Lake Center, hands out honor awards at commencement exercises June 16. This was the first commencement since segregation.

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img Camp Boy Scouts (ddr-densho-37-427)

Original WRA caption: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Boy Scouts conducting a morning flag raising ceremony at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center. Where persons of Japanese ancestry, evacuated from West Coast defennse areas, now reside.

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img Members of the Hoshidan distributing mattresses (ddr-densho-37-112)

Mattresses were doled out to 300 members of the Hoshidan, a pro-Japan organization, who were being kept overnight for questioning.

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img Japanese Americans moving to a different camp (ddr-densho-37-803)

Original WRA caption: Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. Military Police assist evacuees entering the chair cars for the June 13th trip to the Gila River Center.

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img Storage of property (ddr-densho-37-759)

Original WRA caption: Fresno Government Warehouse where evacuee property is stored.

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img Camp irrigation workers (ddr-densho-37-729)

Original WRA caption: Establishing irrigation controls, land reclamation.

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img Japanese Americans behind a fence (ddr-densho-37-799)

Original WRA caption: Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. Evacuees still remaining in the Jerome Center wave to their friends on the train from behind the wire fence surrounding the camp. On subsequent departures they were allowed to pass through the gate and say their goodbyes at close range.

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img Camp landscaping (ddr-densho-37-532)

Original WRA caption: Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. In contrast to most of the relocation center sites, many of the blocks in the Rohwer Center are shaded by trees. The residents have done much to make their tar paper barracks more livable by the planting of flowers and vegetable gardens and the building of rustic walks …

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img Japanese American working on farm (ddr-densho-37-780)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Irrigating thinned lettuce on the project farm.

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img Japanese American children in a victory garden (ddr-densho-37-781)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Fourth grade children weeding their victory garden.

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img Packing mess hall dishes (ddr-densho-37-620)

Original WRA caption: Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. Dishes from the center's thirty-three mess halls were carefully packed in straw and put in G.I. cans ready for shipment. Angelo Girardo of the Denver Office is shown supervising the work.

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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 Hoshidan members unloading mattresses (ddr-densho-37-111)

Original WRA caption: "Recalcitrant" Hokoku unload mattresses to form beds outside building but within stockade enclosure when 300 are held at stockade over night for questioning.

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img Hoshidan members leaving Tule Lake (ddr-densho-37-187)

Original WRA caption: Size of well-wishers diminished as the number of pro-Japan sympathizers sent to internment grew. Although 400 when leaving June 24, 1945, when this picture was taken, the send-off crowd was not nearly up-to-par.

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img Segregants' departure from camp (ddr-densho-37-195)

Original WRA caption: Another defiant "enemy alien" sent to Santa Fe Internment Camp June 24, 1945, refuses to leave jail and stockade and is escorted by patrolmen (border).

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img Closing of Jerome concentration camp (ddr-densho-37-621)

Original WRA caption: Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. An evacuated block in a far corner of the Jerome Center as it looked a short time after the residents had been moved to other centers. Residents did not leave their homes in an untidy condition, however, there was necessarily a great quantity of scrap …

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img Girl weeding in school victory garden (ddr-densho-37-520)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Fourth grade girl--Diane Wallace--weeding the school victory garden.

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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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img Segregants preparing to leave camp (ddr-densho-37-185)

Original WRA caption: The "400" march in small groups from Gate 1 to the stockade for processing before entraining for Santa Fe Internment Camp.

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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 Hoshidan members leaving Tule Lake (ddr-densho-37-198)

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img Camp lumber yard (ddr-densho-37-615)

Original WRA caption: Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. The Jerome Center lumber yard. Much of this lumber was cut at the center's sawmill which the evacuees operated. The remaining piles are being moved to other centers where needed. In the foreground is the scrap pile from which the residents fashioned most of their …

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img McNeil Island Penitentiary, Washington (ddr-densho-37-840)

Original caption: View showing auto shop - machine shop as constructed in 1934 -- note old bachelor officer quarters at right.

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img Hoshidan members on strike (ddr-densho-37-193)

Original WRA caption: After oral persuasion had failed to move some of the 25 "lie-down" strikers among the 400 going to Santa Fe Internment Camp 6-24-45, the strikers are "assisted" to leave their beds by Department of Justice (Border patrolmen) guards, and join march to train.

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img Hoshidan members leaving Tule Lake (ddr-densho-37-197)

Original WRA caption: The 25 laydown strikers march to the special Department of Justice train to go to Santa Fe Internment Camp.

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