1992 items
1992 items

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Japanese sandals (ddr-densho-37-816)
Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Close-up of geta, stilt-like sandals, which are especially useful in dust. These are made by evacuee craftsmen in this War Relocation Authority center.

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Concentration camp street scene (ddr-densho-151-69)
Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Street scene looking east toward the Inyo Mountains at this War Relocation Authority center. The children are coming to their barrack homes from play school.

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Letter from John (Sohei) Hohri to Harold Landon (ddr-janm-18-19)
Envelope is addressed to to Harold Landon in West Los Angeles, California from John (Sohei) Hohri in Manzanar, California, postmarked June 16, 1943.

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Man and child at Manzanar incarceration camp (ddr-csujad-7-8)
An man and a child at Manzanar incarceration camp, Manzanar, California, July 2, 1942. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMLSC_JA_f08

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Postcard to a Nisei man from his father (ddr-densho-153-153)
Excerpt: "I thank you for medicine for foot." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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Postcard to two Nisei brothers from their sister (ddr-densho-153-195)
Excerpt: "Hello! Everything okay? Today Mama went back." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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Letter to two Nisei brothers from their sister (ddr-densho-153-95)
Excerpt: "The days are gradually changing more & more." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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Postcard to a Nisei man from his mother (ddr-densho-153-160)
Excerpt: "I recieved your letter writen in streetcar." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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Graduation announcement (ddr-densho-153-223)
This graduation announcement was sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to the graduate's brother in Chicago, Illinois.

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Letter to a Nisei man from his brother (ddr-densho-153-39)
Excerpt: "Received the soldering iron and solder today." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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Postcard to two Nisei brothers from their sister (ddr-densho-153-196)
Excerpt: "Just dropping a line to say hello." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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Letter to a Nisei man from his sister (ddr-densho-153-138)
Excerpt: "Boy, were sure busy here." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, possibly to Camp Robinson, Arkansas.

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Manzanar from the Inside (ddr-densho-156-99)
Text of an address delivered before the Commonwealth Club of California by Roy Nash, Manzanar project director.

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Posted work leave notice (ddr-densho-93-19)
Original Ansel Adams caption: Detail of work-offer board, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.

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Japanese Americans bundling clothing (ddr-densho-93-6)
Original Ansel Adams caption: Bert K. Miura and Toshiko Kadonada, bundling and shipping, Manzanar Relocation Center, California.

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Couple in an concentration camp garden (ddr-densho-34-168)
A young Nisei couple enjoys the garden built by the Japanese Americans at Manzanar concentration camp, California.

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Japanese Americans making camouflage nets (ddr-densho-151-410)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Making camouflage nets for the War Department. This is one of several War and Navy Department projects carried on by persons of Japanese ancestry in relocation centers.

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Japanese Americans making camouflage nets (ddr-densho-151-409)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Making camouflage nets for the War Department. This is one of several War and Navy Department projects carried on by persons of Japanese ancestry in relocation centers.

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Japanese Americans making camouflage nets (ddr-densho-151-411)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Making camouflage nets for the War Department. This is one of several War and Navy Department projects carried on by persons of Japanese ancestry in relocation centers.

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Japanese American holding guayule plant (ddr-densho-151-469)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. George J. Yokomizo, hybridizer for the guyaule rubber experment project, outside the lath house with one of the guyale plants from which he hopes to develop seed.

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Japanese Americans clearing brush (ddr-densho-151-388)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. More land is being cleared of sage brush at the southern end of the project to enlarge this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

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Japanese Americans making camouflage nets (ddr-densho-151-408)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Making camouflage nets for the War Department. This is one of several War and Navy Department projects carried on by persons of Japanese ancestry in relocation centers.

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Japanese American making camouflage net (ddr-densho-151-412)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Making camouflage nets for the War Department. This is one of several War and Navy Department projects carried on by persons of Japanese ancestry in relocation centers.

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Japanese Americans making camouflage nets (ddr-densho-151-413)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Making camouflage nets for the War Department. This is one of several War and Navy Department projects carried on by persons of Japanese ancestry in relocation centers.

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Japanese Americans making camouflage nets (ddr-densho-151-474)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Making camouflage nets for the War Department. This is one of several War and Navy Department projects carried on by persons of Japanese ancestry in relocation centers.