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doc Letter from Bill Iino to George and Chieko Kondo (ddr-densho-368-683)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-368-683/

doc Written piece: "Halloween Dance" (ddr-densho-102-29)

This piece was written by Kara Kondo, and is part of a series titled "Sketches from Evacuation."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-102-29/

doc Birth to Death Takiye Kondo Midwife (ddr-ajah-6-161)

Document including photos, transcription of articles and primary documents related to the life and work of Takiye Kondo

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-161/

img Funeral photo outside Buddhist Church at Gila River Camp (ddr-ajah-6-163)

Caption below photo: Midwife Takiye Kondo's funeral service at Gila River incarceration camp 2, Arizona. Takiye suffered an aortic aneurism and died in Rivers Community Hospital on March 9, 1945. She lived just an hour and a half after being admitted. She was from Alameda, CA. This second photo taken by the photographer of the funeral …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-163/

img Funeral photo titles Death of a Midwife (ddr-ajah-6-162)

Caption below photo: Midwife Takiye Kondo's funeral service at Gila River incarceration camp 2, Arizona. Takiye suffered an aortic aneurism and dies in Rivers Community Hospital on march 9, 1945. She lived just an hour and a half after being admitted. She was from Alameda, CA.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-162/

img Mary Kondo standing outside building with group in background (ddr-ajah-6-111)

Inscription on photo front: To Alice / Love Mary. Caption below photo: Mary Kondo of Alameda, CA, circa late 1920s

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-111/

img Funeral photo titled Death of a Midwife (ddr-ajah-6-227)

Caption below photo: Midwife Takiye Kondo's funeral service at Gila River incarceration camp 2, Arizona. Takiye suffered an aortic aneurism and died in Rivers Community Hospital on march 9, 1945. She lived just an hour and a half after being admitted. She was from Alameda, CA.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-227/

Collection Kondo Collection (ddr-densho-102)

The Kondo collection consists of photographs and documents from the personal family collection of Kara Kondo, who was interviewed by Densho in 2002. Many of the materials depict Kara's life growing up in Wapato, Washington, prior to World War II.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-102/

img Hideko Kondo with Sakura family (ddr-densho-523-311)

Caption below photo: Gramma's 80th Birthday. Date printed on photo margin: Apr 59

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-523-311/

av I Told You So (ddr-densho-1024-1)

Poet Lawson Inada shows how growing up in Fresno, California influenced his writing. He visits Tule Lake, the largest of the American concentration camps, where Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were American citizens, were imprisoned during World War II. See this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: I Told You So. See this item …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1024-1/

av Crystal City Pilgrimage (ddr-densho-1024-4)

The first pilgrimage commemorating the largest U.S. Department of Justice multinational family concentration camp during World War II. See this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: Crystal City Pilgrimage. See this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/ddr-densho-1024-4.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1024-4/

av Fort Sill Protest (ddr-densho-1024-3)

A coalition of progressive organizations, including Tsuru For Solidarity, American Indian Movement, Black Lives Matter and Brown Berets protest the holding of immigrants and refugees at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and expose its history as a prison for people of color. See this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/ddr-densho-1024-3.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1024-3/

av Justice Now! Reparations Now! (ddr-densho-1024-2)

A united front of Japanese American organizations, with the support of Japanese American legislators and the Congressional Black Caucus, uses grass roots organizing to successfully win reparations for unjust incarceration during World War II. See this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: Justice Now! Reparations Now!. See this item in the Digital Library of …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1024-2/

img Four men and a woman with barracks in background (ddr-densho-523-140)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-523-140/

img Woman holding baby (ddr-densho-523-176)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-523-176/

img Couple with dog getting their picture taken (ddr-densho-523-271)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-523-271/

img Sakura Family (ddr-densho-523-274)

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img Women at a JACL picnic (ddr-densho-433-650)

Identification from duplicate photograph: [from left to right] Fumi & Etsu Kondo, Marilyn Domoto, June Yoshioka. Duplicate of ddr-densho-433-1239.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-433-650/

img Two women sitting on car fender (ddr-ajah-6-108)

Caption below photo: Picnicking in Niles, CA, with Alice Takakura (left) and Mary Kondo, of Alameda, CA, circa late 1920s-early 1930s.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-108/

img Portrait of bride, likely Agnes Kondo (ddr-densho-523-30)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-523-30/

img Nisei woman receiving the Governor's Centennial Volunteer Award (ddr-densho-102-48)

Washington State's First Lady Jean Gardner and Secretary of State Ralph Munro made this presentation to Kara Kondo on behalf of Governor Booth Gardner.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-102-48/

img Women at a JACL picnic (ddr-densho-433-1239)

Written on verso: [from left to right] Fumi & Etsu Kondo, Marilyn Domoto, June Yoshioka, 7/49, JACL picnic. Duplicate of ddr-densho-433-650.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-433-1239/

doc Letter from Harry Kondo to T. Sugimoto (ddr-ajah-7-11)

Informing him that his baggage had to be paid in advance for shipping and that the JACL had paid the shipping costs to Colorado

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-7-11/

img Nisei at Epworth United Methodist Church (ddr-one-1-439)

Black and white photographic print of Nisei at Epworth United Methodist Church most likely during the Northwest Methodist Rally. Front row left to right: unidentified, Martha (Kondo) Miyasaki, Mitsy (Kiyomura) Takeoka, Atsuko "Alice" Kida and Nami (Miura) Koida. Back row: unidentified, Yone (Kanda) Terada, Gloria (Osawa) Fujii, Mary (Kondo) Yamano, Miriam (Koyama) Kiso, and Masae "Elsie" …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-one-1-439/

img Heart Mountain Mess crew 21-27 (ddr-densho-363-52)

Mes Crew 21-27 pose outside the building. Back row: Mrs. Imori, Nishimoto, Kondo, Mr. Okamoto; Front row: Mrs. Wada, Nabata, Ushijima, Ruth Murakami, Nagazawa, Kimi Kuwahara

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-363-52/

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