114 items
114 items
Collection
Eastern California Museum Harry Bentley Wells and Shirley Elizabeth Wells Collection (ddr-csujad-48)
Collection of documents and ephemera from Harry Bentley Wells, teacher at Manzanar War Relocation Center High School and Shirley Elizabeth Wells, registered nurse (R.N.) at Manzanar War Relocation Center. This collection includes correspondence, memos, reports, student papers, grade book, commencement program, prom invitation, and other memorabilia from the eleven months H. Bentley Wells was employed at …
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Library books (ddr-densho-151-437)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. A barrack building has been turned into a library at this War Relocaton Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. These and other books have been donated by friends, Shelving will be soon made, and the library set up with the use of modern techniques by a trained evacuee …
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Japanese Americans in front of barracks (ddr-densho-151-373)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuees family of Japanese ancestry relax in front of their barrack room at the end of day. The father is a worker on the farm project at this War Relocaton Authority center. Note the chair which was made of scrap lumber, and the wooden shoes known as Getas made …
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Two children running between the barracks at Manzanar (ddr-csujad-52-18)
Two children appear to be running in an otherwise empty area at Manzanar. One can see barracks on either side of the image and a building in the center of the photo, behind a flagpole with the United States flag. Caption above the image reads, "MANZANAR, Clif. Nov. 11 -- RELOCATION CENTER -- This California Historical …
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Shinjo Nagatomi Collection (ddr-manz-4)
The Shinjo Nagatomi Collection consists of 3 photograph albums and various documents compiled by Reverend Shinjo Nagatomi about his time at Manzanar War Relocation Center. Rev. Nagatomi was the lead Buddhist minister at Manzanar. Topics cover life in camp, family, weddings and celebrations, and Buddhisim.
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Eastern California Museum Merritt Photo Collection (ddr-csujad-47)
The collection was donated by Ralph "Pete" Merritt, Jr. and Patricia Merritt. It is comprised of photographs from an album created by L. Josephine Hawes, the Chief Nurse at the Manzanar Hospital, and individual photographs collected by Ralph P. Merritt, the Project Director of the Manzanar War Relocation Center.
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 15 No. 25 (November 19, 1942) (ddr-pc-14-24)
Selected article titles: "Legality of Military Curfew Order on U.S. Nisei Citizens Questioned by Federal Judge" (p. 1), "Democracy in Action: JACL Leaders Discuss Problems" (p. 1), "Yasui Prefers Soldier's Death To Life in Relocation Center" (p. 1), "Challenging Discrimination Will Help Win War, Declares Wirin" (p. 2), "U.S. Nisei Battalion Trains For War Combat Duty …
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Manzanar Free Press Vol. 6 No. 84 (April 11, 1945) (ddr-densho-125-328)
Selected article titles: "Manzanar High School Annual Staff to Sponsor Double Feature Movie" (p. 1), "Hoodlums Shoot Home of Nisei War Veterans" (p. 1), "Center Buddhists Honor Lord Buddha's Birthday" (p. 1), "Women's Missionary Society Wish Pen Pals in Relocation Centers" (p. 2), "Five Japanese Americans Now Commissioned in Army Nurse Corps" (p. 3), "Kiichi Uyeda …
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Manzanar from the inside (ddr-csujad-48-62)
Text of address by Roy Nash, Director of the Manzanar War Relocation Project, given to the Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco, on July 31, 1942 for the purpose of "interpret[ing] the actuality of a War Relocation Center housing 10,000 evacuees" in view of perceptions of mistreatment of incarcerees in California. Sections of the speech include …
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Memorandum from Sub-Committee on Controversial Issues to Mr. Ralph Merritt, Project Director, Manzanar War Relocation Area, January 16, 1943 (ddr-csujad-48-96)
Memorandum from the Sub-Committee on Controversial Issues to Ralph Merritt, Project Director of "Manzanar War Relocation Center," regarding the teaching and discussion of controversial issues in the classroom. The sub-committee provides several suggestions on how to address the issue, but would like formal approval from Mr. Merritt. Transcription is found in item: ecm_wells_9905. See this object …
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Photograph of the lathe house for the guayule experiments with snow on the ground (ddr-csujad-47-51)
Exterior view of the lathe house for the guayule rubber experiments under the direction of Walter T. Watanabe, who has a staff of 22 workers at this War Relocation Authority Center. The initial shipment of 100,000 seedlings came from Salinas Experiment Station. This photograph was taken in the winter shortly after a snowstorm in Manzanar. See …
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Manzanar From Inside Out (ddr-csujad-19-2)
Text of address by Roy Nash, Director of the Manzanar War Relocation Project, given to the Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco, on July 31, 1942 for the purpose of "interpret[ing] the actuality of a War Relocation Center housing 10,000 evacuees" in view of perceptions of mistreatment of incarcerees in California. Sections of the speech include …
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Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga Interview I (ddr-densho-1000-16)
Nisei female. Born August 5, 1924, in Sacramento, California. Grew up in Sacramento and Los Angeles. During World War II, removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California, and transferred to the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. Washington representative and researcher for National Council for Japanese American Redress (NCJAR) and primary archival researcher for the Commission on Wartime …
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George Naohara's handwritten annotations (ddr-csujad-38-2)
English translations of handwritten annotations from "George Naohara photo album" (csudh_nao_0001), page 4: [Left] Several meetings were held in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California, prior to moving to the Manzanar incarceration camp in California. I attended those meetings. What was announced was that all Japanese Americans residing in California and the West Coast should move to …