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img Interior view of store in Block 8 at Jerome incarceration camp (ddr-csujad-14-12)

Interior view of store in Block 8 at Jerome incarceration camp, showing grocery section. November 17, 1943. Photo by Tom Parker. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMLSC_TOMO_012

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img Assembling and folding "The sentinel," Heart Mountain incarceration camp newspaper (ddr-csujad-14-55)

Assembling and folding "The sentinel," Heart Mountain incarceration camp newspaper. January 8, 1943. Photo by Tom Parker. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMLSC_TOMO_f20

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img Three high school students with their calves at Granada incarceration camp (ddr-csujad-14-5)

Three high school students with their calves at Granada incarceration camp. December 11, 1942. Photo by Tom Parker. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMLSC_TOMO_005

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img Incarcerees having lunch at Granada incarceration camp (ddr-csujad-14-36)

Incarcerees having lunch at Granada incarceration camp. August 20, 1942. Photo by Tom Parker. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMLSC_TOMO_f01

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img Former California biochemistry student Tom Arase (ddr-csujad-14-15)

Former California biochemistry student Tom Arase performs gastro analysis in hospital laboratory at Jerome incarceration camp March 3, 1943. Photo by Tom Parker. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMLSC_TOMO_015

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img Former California mechanic Chester Ishii repairing piece of farm machinery at Rohwer incarceration camp (ddr-csujad-14-25)

Former California mechanic Chester Ishii repairing piece of farm machinery at Rohwer incarceration camp. March 10, 1943. Photo by Tom Parker. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMLSC_TOMO_025

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img Mechanic honing cylinders in a truck motor at Heart Mountain incarceration camp (ddr-csujad-14-53)

Mechanic honing cylinders in a truck motor at Heart Mountain incarceration camp. January 2, 1943. Photo by Tom Parker. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMLSC_TOMO_f18

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img Former Californian K. Inoye operates hand saw (ddr-csujad-14-17)

Former Californian K. Inoye operates hand saw in cabinet shop at Jerome incarceration camp. March 12, 1943. Photo by Tom Parker. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMLSC_TOMO_017

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img Former incarcerees from Los Angeles pulling beets in field near Milliken, Colorado (ddr-csujad-14-38)

Former incarcerees from Los Angeles pulling beets in field near Milliken, Colorado. Novemer 3, 1942. Photo by Tom Parker. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMLSC_TOMO_f03

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img Japanese Americans picking sports teams (ddr-densho-37-543)

Original WRA caption: Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. Dick Kunishima, Coach and former California High School Athletic Director, tears his team apart between halves of a Stockton - Santa Anita Game.

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img Topaz concentration camp project director (ddr-densho-37-559)

Original WRA caption: Topaz, Utah. Charles E. Ernst, Project Director, at his desk in the Administrative building at the Topaz Relocation Center.

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img Native American at camp site (ddr-densho-37-435)

Original WRA caption: Parker, Arizona. Henry Welsh, Mojave Indian and chairman of the tribal council for the Colorado River Indian Reservation, which is site of a War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

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img Native American at camp site (ddr-densho-37-434)

Original WRA caption: Parker, Arizona. Henry Welsh, Mojave Indian and Chairman of the tribal council on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, which is the site of a War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

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doc Letter from M. Nobe to John Bonomi (ddr-janm-21-76)

A 4 page letter dated 5/17/42 from M. [Mutsumi] Nobe, Parker Relocation Center, Poston, AZ, to John Bonomi, L.A., CA M. Nose is placing a pharmaceutical order through John Bonomi, Brunswig Drug Co., No envelope found.

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img Sign on a barbershop door in Parker, Arizona, "Japs keep out you rats" (ddr-csujad-7-2)

Barbershop in Parker, Arizona, with sign "Japs keep out your rats." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMLSC_JA_f02

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img Issei man completing registration (ddr-densho-122-761)

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img Two Nisei women register for defense employment (ddr-densho-122-754)

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img Nisei man signing enlistment papers (ddr-densho-122-757)

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img Nisei man signing enlistment papers (ddr-densho-122-758)

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img Young Japanese American signing voluntary enlistment papers (ddr-densho-122-752)

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img Young Nisei man completing questionnaire before enlisting (ddr-densho-122-755)

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img Japanese American couple (ddr-densho-37-466)

Original WRA caption: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Alice and Bill Hosokawa, young Americans of Japanese ancestry now residing at Heart Mountain. Bill, whose father came to the United States many years ago is a recognized Nisei leader, a graduate of the University of Washington, West coast newspaper man, foreign correspondent for the Shanghai …

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img Japanese American auto mechanics (ddr-densho-37-542)

Original WRA caption: Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. In the center motor pool shop, George Kenotsu and George Baba, former Stockton, California mechanics, prepare to remove an automobile motor for overhaul. Mechanical repairs to all center motor equipment is carried out by residents, former west coast persons of Japanese ancestry.

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doc Poston Press Bulletin Vol. VII No. 14 (December 2, 1942) (ddr-densho-145-170)

Selected article titles: "Annex to Post Office Started" (p. 1), "New Year Festivities Planned at Poston II" (p. 1), "City Council to Fete Emergency Helpers" (p. 2), "400 Stoves Arrive in Parker for Unit Two Distribution and Use" (p. 3).

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Collection Barbara P. Narita Collection (ddr-densho-317)

The Barbara P. Narita Collection contain photographs, negatives, and documents related to the 1976 movie version of Farewell to Manzanar. Included are Barbara Narita's journal and scene stills taken during filming.

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