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Susan Brown Phelps Interview Segment 2 (ddr-manz-1-147-2)
vh Susan Brown Phelps Interview Segment 2 (ddr-manz-1-147-2)
Father's job as a teacher in the Owens Valley, California
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-1-147-2/
Parcher Guides, Owens Valley, California (ddr-densho-342-13)
doc Parcher Guides, Owens Valley, California (ddr-densho-342-13)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-342-13/
Letter to Molly Wilson from Chiyeko Akahoshi (May 9, 1942) (ddr-janm-1-101)
doc Letter to Molly Wilson from Chiyeko Akahoshi (May 9, 1942) (ddr-janm-1-101)
Handwritten letter to Molly Wilson from Chiyeko Akahoshi (May 9, 1942) from the Owens Valley Assembly Center in Manzanar, California.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-janm-1-101/
Letter to Molly Wilson from Chiyeko Akahoshi (April 28, 1942) (ddr-janm-1-100)
doc Letter to Molly Wilson from Chiyeko Akahoshi (April 28, 1942) (ddr-janm-1-100)
Handwritten letter to Molly Wilson from Chiyeko Akahoshi (April 28, 1942) from the Owens Valley Assembly Center in Manzanar, California.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-janm-1-100/
Letter to Anne Margrave from J.M. Kidwell (ddr-densho-342-30)
doc 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.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-342-30/
Concentration camp firebreak (ddr-densho-151-68)
img Concentration camp firebreak (ddr-densho-151-68)
Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. General view of this War Relocation Authority center located in Owens Valley looking east across the wide fire-break which separates blocks of barracks.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-68/
Picking the site (ddr-csujad-47-30)
img Picking the site (ddr-csujad-47-30)
Photograph of the Owens Valley Coordinating Committee picking the site for the Manzanar Incarceration Camp. From left to right: Wallace Howard (FBI), Rex Nicholson (WCCA), Col. McGill (U.S. Army), Ralph P. Merritt (Chairman, Owens Valley Coordinating Committee), Clayton E. Triggs (WCCA), and Col. Kelton (U.S. Army). Caption reads: Picking the site. Title from caption, which was …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-47-30/
Relief map depicting camp location (ddr-densho-37-411)
img Relief map depicting camp location (ddr-densho-37-411)
Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Picture of relief map showing location of Manzanar, War Relocation Authority Center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry, in Owens Valley, California, which is flanked in background by the High Sierras and in foreground by Mount Whitney, loftiest peak in the United States.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-411/
[Photograph of the Willow Motel] (ddr-csujad-29-186)
img [Photograph of the Willow Motel] (ddr-csujad-29-186)
The Willow Motel in Lone Pine, California, was built using barracks from Manzanar. Photograph inscription: The Willow Motel in Lone Pine, California. This business concern, like many others in the Owens Valley, makes use of the barracks formerly housing administrative personnel and internees at the Manzanar Center. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-186/
Members of Owens Valley Citizens Committee (ddr-densho-342-39)
doc Members of Owens Valley Citizens Committee (ddr-densho-342-39)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-342-39/
Bulletin, no. 2 (March 18, 1942): Instructions governing voluntary movement of Japanese from Los Angeles to Owens Valley (ddr-csujad-42-156)
doc Bulletin, no. 2 (March 18, 1942): Instructions governing voluntary movement of Japanese from Los Angeles to Owens Valley (ddr-csujad-42-156)
An issue of "Bulletin" titled: Instructions governing voluntary movement of Japanese from Los Angeles to Owens Valley. It informs of details regarding the forced evacuation scheduled on March 23, 1942, including baggage to be taken, meals to be served, and travels by rail and motor convey. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-42-156/
Laying water line at Manzanar (ddr-csujad-52-24)
img Laying water line at Manzanar (ddr-csujad-52-24)
Caption from reverse of image reads, "LAYING WATER LINE FOR JAPANESE BOOM TOWN, A trench digger churned its way across the floor of Owens Valley March 19 to speed laying of a water supply line for the boom town for evacuated Japanese being erected at Manzanar under the direction of Lt. Gen. John L. Dewitt of …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-52-24/
Two girls sitting on beds in the barracks at Manzanar (ddr-csujad-52-10)
img Two girls sitting on beds in the barracks at Manzanar (ddr-csujad-52-10)
Two girls sit on beds in the barracks at Manzanar, in front of shelves containing their personal belongings. A caption, printed in the Feb. 25, 1983, edition of the Long Beach Independent reads, "1942 photo showed Japanese-Americans apparently happily interned at Manzanar camp. The accompanying caption said a picture of Gen. Douglas MacArthur hung in a …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-52-10/
Postcard to brother Wendell Millermura [Wendell L. Miller], 1942 May 6 (ddr-csujad-20-2)
doc Postcard to brother Wendell Millermura [Wendell L. Miller], 1942 May 6 (ddr-csujad-20-2)
Backside of postcard with cartoon of U.S. plane bombing Tokyo and an angry Japanese citizen reacting, saying "Ho! You cannot do this to me! I am the son of heaven! What the hell?" Postcard is addressed to "My dear brother Wendell Millermura" and describes the writer as "a member of the Christian Church," asking Miller, "Where …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-20-2/
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