232 items
232 items
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Port Blakely sawmill (ddr-densho-34-84)
Torazo "Slab Harry" Nakao (in the white hat) and his co-workers at the Port Blakely sawmill on Bainbridge Island, Washington. Port Blakely is located on the southeast end of Bainbridge Island, Washington.
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Storage list for Y. and N. Nakao (ddr-sbbt-2-86)
A check-in list for goods belonging to Y. and N. Nakao, moved from the Buddhist Church (Seattle Betsuin Buddhist Temple) to Lyon Van and Storage Company's lot 608.
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Letter from Masayuki Nakao to Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-424-754)
Question about credit balance, includes torn corner of envelope with address
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Japanese American picnic (ddr-densho-34-36)
Tamao Takayoshi (b.1874) distributes cookies to the Nakao, Shigemura, Matsushima and Takayoshi children. Port Blakely is located on the southeast end of Bainbridge Island, Washington.
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Isami Nakao - Kazuko Nakao Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-68-10)
Memories of attending church as a child
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Isami Nakao - Kazuko Nakao Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-68-11)
Pearl Harbor: "Japan seemed so far away that it's not going to affect us... but I was wrong"
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Isami Nakao - Kazuko Nakao Segment 21 (ddr-densho-1000-68-21)
Transferring to Minidoka concentration camp
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Isami Nakao - Kazuko Nakao Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-68-1)
Sam's family background, working for the Port Blakely mill
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Isami Nakao - Kazuko Nakao Segment 22 (ddr-densho-1000-68-22)
Getting married at Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho
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Isami Nakao - Kazuko Nakao Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1000-68-12)
FBI officers erroneously believe a Buddhist shrine contains a shortwave radio
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Isami Nakao - Kazuko Nakao Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-68-5)
Kay's family background: parents' arrival in the U.S., getting into farming
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Isami Nakao - Kazuko Nakao Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-68-16)
"Evacuation day," leaving Bainbridge Island, Washington
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Isami Nakao - Kazuko Nakao Segment 25 (ddr-densho-1000-68-25)
Trying to keep up with news back home
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Isami Nakao - Kazuko Nakao Segment 26 (ddr-densho-1000-68-26)
Returning home to Bainbridge Island to find tenant refusing to leave
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Isami Nakao - Kazuko Nakao Segment 18 (ddr-densho-1000-68-18)
Arrival at Manzanar concentration camp
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Isami Nakao - Kazuko Nakao Segment 27 (ddr-densho-1000-68-27)
Memories of those first anxious days back home after the war
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Isami Nakao - Kazuko Nakao Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1000-68-15)
Choosing what to pack for mass removal with limited information
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Isami Nakao - Kazuko Nakao Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-68-9)
Becoming affiliated with Christian church
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Isami Nakao - Kazuko Nakao Segment 28 (ddr-densho-1000-68-28)
Feeling some cynicism about wartime experiences, but not bitterness
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Isami Nakao - Kazuko Nakao Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-68-2)
Prewar working conditions in the lumber mills: "Jap 1, Jap 2..."
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Isami Nakao - Kazuko Nakao Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-68-14)
Preparing for mass removal: eight hectic and confusing days
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Isami Nakao - Kazuko Nakao Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-68-4)
Father's beginnings in farming after the mill shut down
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Isami Nakao - Kazuko Nakao Segment 17 (ddr-densho-1000-68-17)
The train ride into the desert: traveling to Manzanar concentration camp