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img Barracks with American flag (ddr-densho-151-57)

Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation center, Manzanar, California. Street scene of barrack homes at this War Relocation Authority Center. The windstorm has subsided and the dust has settled.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-57/

doc Letter to Anne Margrave from Louis M. Hicks (ddr-densho-342-35)

Thank you letter from Louis M. Hicks, Assistant Project Director at Manzanar, to Librarian of the Inyo County Free Library of Independence, California, for books donated to Manzanar.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-342-35/

img Military Police (ddr-densho-37-808)

Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Army military police go on duty to guard the boundaries of this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-808/

doc Letter to Anne Margrave from Thomas M. Temple (ddr-densho-342-38)

Letter from Thomas M. Temple, Chief Community Services Division, Manzanar, to Anne Margrave, Librarian of the Inyo County Free Library of Independence, California, regarding planning a library for Manzanar.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-342-38/

vh Ko Nishimura Interview (ddr-manz-1-174)

Nisei male. Grew up the Pasadena, California, area, where parents worked in a family-owned nursery. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, family moved to Reedley, California, for a short time before being removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. At Manzanar, father worked for the government's guayule project. After leaving camp, returned to California and became ...

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-1-174/

img Japanese American in a field (ddr-densho-93-12)

Original Ansel Adams caption: Tom Kobayashi, Landscape, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-93-12/

img Cemetery monument (ddr-densho-93-22)

Original Ansel Adams caption: Monument in cemetery, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-93-22/

img Japanese Americans lining up for mess hall (ddr-densho-93-21)

Original Ansel Adams caption: Mess line, noon, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-93-21/

img Orphan children (ddr-densho-93-49)

Original Ansel Adams caption: Nursery, orphan infants, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-93-49/

img Sunday school class (ddr-densho-93-43)

Original Ansel Adams caption: Sunday school class, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-93-43/

doc Postcard to two Nisei brothers from their sister (ddr-densho-153-193)

Excerpt: "Everything okay? We're all okay." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-153-193/

doc Letter to two Nisei brothers from their sister (ddr-densho-153-98)

Excerpt: "Thank you for the letters." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-153-98/

doc Letter to a Nisei man from his sister (ddr-densho-153-67)

Excerpt: "This morning I finished ironing." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-153-67/

doc Postcard to a Nisei man from his sister (ddr-densho-153-197)

Excerpt: "Just received the music package." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-153-197/

doc Postcard to two Nisei brothers from their sister (ddr-densho-153-173)

Excerpt: "How're you guys getting along?" Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-153-173/

doc Postcard to two Nisei brothers from their sister (ddr-densho-153-194)

Excerpt: "Here it is the fourth." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-153-194/

img Three children (ddr-densho-359-1089)

A group of young boys poses for a photograph at Manzanar Concentration Camp in California.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-359-1089/

img Japanese American working in lath house (ddr-densho-151-470)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. An evacuee is shown in the lath house sorting seedlings for tranplanting. These plants are year-old seedlings from the Salinas Experiment Station.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-470/

img Two Japanese American orphans (ddr-densho-151-442)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. The two youngest of the 65 evacuee orphans in the Childrens' Village at this War Relocation Authrority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-442/

img View of barracks (ddr-densho-151-414)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. View of barracks at this War Relocation Authority center looking southwest across the wide fire-break which is used as a recreation field.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-414/

img Orphan at Manzanar Childrens' Village (ddr-densho-151-444)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. An evacuee orphan, one of 65 now housed in the Childrens' Village at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-444/

img Japanese Americans resting near creek (ddr-densho-151-399)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Family groups enjoying the mountain creek which flows along the outer border of this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-399/

doc Graduation announcement (with envelope) to Molly Wilson from Chiyeko Akahoshi (June 13, 1944) (ddr-janm-1-112)

Manzanar High School graduation announcement from to Molly Wilson from Chiyeko Akahoshi (June 13, 1944). White card with illustration in bronze of the profile view of two graduates. Envelope is postmarked June 13, 1944 from the Manzanar Incarceration Camp in Manzanar, California.

http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-janm-1-112/