1415 items
1415 items
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Japanese American soldiers leaving camp (ddr-densho-39-36)
Original museum description: Photograph, black and white glossy, shows soldiers leaving Minidoka in a covered army truck while people wait to say goodbye. The scene is outside the camp guardhouse that was the entry/exit point for the camp. Two soldiers are seated in the truck while a third leans out. Another soldier is on the ground …
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Buddhist funeral (ddr-densho-39-19)
The elaborate floral wreaths and arrangements for this Buddhist funeral service were probably fashioned from paper by the camp inmates, since they did not have easy access to fresh flowers.
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High school students (ddr-densho-39-32)
Original museum description: Photograph, black and white glossy, shows high school students at Minidoka internment camp at a table, four standing and three seated, probably at their high school from indications on the wall. (Info from original museum description)
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Schoolchildren (ddr-densho-39-38)
Original museum description: Photograph, black and white glossy of a scene in Minidoka, Idaho[,] internment camp showing school children marching or parading near the barracks. There are two women white teachers and another adult woman at the rear. Some of the children are carrying American flags, and the flagpole in the back is at half staff. …
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Japanese Americans harvesting onions (ddr-densho-37-714)
Original WRA caption: High school boys and girls pull onions on the project farm during harvest vacation.
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Japanese American in a field (ddr-densho-37-730)
Original WRA caption: Mr. Kamaya examining plants, soy bean field.
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WAC recruitment (ddr-densho-37-32)
Original WRA caption: An evacuee girl is interviewed by three members of the WAC who visited the Minidoka Relocation Center to accept enlistment of Japanese-American girls.
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Administration building (ddr-densho-37-825)
Original WRA caption: Minidoka Relocation Center, Hunt, Idaho. Main administration building.
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Coal crew (ddr-densho-37-700)
Original WRA caption: Half of special coal crew which trucked --- tons of coal five miles from Hunt siding to Minidoka Relocation Center in --- months. One crew worked nights and the other days.
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Camp street (ddr-densho-37-823)
Original WRA caption: Minidoka Relocation Center, Hunt, Idaho. Looking down the rows of barracks westward from block 44. At extreme left is a corner of the dining hall where the 275 to 300 residents of the block eat. At center background is the sanitation building including showers, lavatories, toilets and washtubs. Nearly all the residents planted …
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Parents mending clothes (ddr-densho-37-43)
Original WRA caption: Parents assist in mending for children at the Hunt Nursery School.
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Flooded conditions (ddr-densho-37-689)
Original WRA caption: Flooded area between barracks in Block 3.
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Field irrigation (ddr-densho-37-701)
Original WRA caption: Irrigation of a new field adjacent to the Minidoka Relocation Center is started within a short time after the area was cleared of sagebrush.
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Japanese Americans harvesting onions (ddr-densho-37-710)
Original WRA caption: High school boys and girls of Hunt pull onions on the project farm during harvest vacation.