1537 items
1537 items
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Woman standing in a barracks doorway (ddr-manz-7-46)
Caption on reverse: "Jone Ingalls - 7-3-4 June 1943. There must have been a dust storm."
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Three women sitting on a porch (ddr-manz-7-125)
Caption on reverse: "Elaine Stanley, Margaret Saltwedell."
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Letter to Anne Margrave from Roy Nash (ddr-densho-342-36)
Letter from Roy Nash, Manzanar Project Director, to Anne Margrave, Librarian of the Inyo County Free Library of Independence, California, regarding planning a library for Manzanar.
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Education Section Summary (ddr-densho-342-8)
Report to Manzanar Project Director Ralph Merritt and his general staff meeting.
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America in the War and America in the Peace (ddr-densho-342-7)
Address given by Manzanar Project Director Ralph Merritt, May 30, 1944. It was the concluding address in a series of eight discussions called "America in the Making."
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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.
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Toy Loan Library (ddr-densho-342-4)
Booklet describing the Manzanar Toy Loan Project organized by Ruth Beckwith, Senior Elementary Teacher.
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Letter to Anne Margrave from J.M. Kidwell (ddr-densho-342-30)
Letter from J.M. Kidwell, Director, Service Division, Owens Valley Reception Center, to Anne Margrave, Librarian of the Inyo County Free Library of Independence, California, regarding planning a library for Manzanar.
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Letter from Dick Narita (ddr-densho-342-24)
Letter from Dick Narita to the Los Angeles County Library asking for a library to be set up at Manzanar.
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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.
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A Barrack Becomes a Home (ddr-densho-342-5)
Cooperative project in Homemaking by the students of the Home Economics and Woodshop Departments of the Manzanar Secondary School. Booklet prepared by Beatrice H. White, Home Economics Supervisor, Manzanar Secondary Schools. Some pages missing.
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Japanese Americans tending crops (ddr-densho-151-36)
Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuee in her "hobby garden" which rates highest of all the garden plots at this War Relocation Authority center. Vegetables for their own use are grown in plots 10 x 50 feet between rows of barracks.
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Third-grade students (ddr-densho-151-32)
Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Third grade students working on their arithmetic lesson at this first volunteer elementary school. School equipment was not yet available at the time this photograph was taken.
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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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Man walking with grandson (ddr-densho-151-374)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Grandfather of Japanese ancestry teaching his little grandson to walk at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees.
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Young Japanese Americans playing in creek (ddr-densho-151-400)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuee children enjoying a hot summer afternoon in the mountain creek which flows through the desert on the border of this War Relocation Authority center.
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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 playing baseball (ddr-densho-151-393)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Baseball is the most popular recreation at this War Relocation Authority center with 80 teams having been formed throughout the Center. Most of the playing is done between the barrack blocks.