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img Soldiers and families (ddr-densho-37-526)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Blue Star Mothers and wives and visiting soldiers.

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img Japanese Americans cutting timber (ddr-densho-37-549)

Original WRA caption: Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. Much of the timber cleared from reclaimed farm lands is used for fuel to heat barracks homes. Cutting and chopping is done by volunteer workers enlisted by block managers, to provide fuel for each individual block. Each capable resident is expected to contribute his share of time to …

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img Military police (ddr-densho-37-822)

Original WRA caption: Military Police at assembly center for persons of Japanese ancestry evacuated from coastal areas.

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img Japanese American playing a board game (ddr-densho-37-428)

Original WRA caption: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. An early immigrant from Japan, now residing at Heart Mountain, after evacuation from West Coast areas, reaches for a pawn in a game of Shogi, similar in characters and playing to chess. Although previously mumbling in Japanese, startled by the camera flas, the old gent let …

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img Japanese American baggage (ddr-densho-37-586)

Original WRA caption: Salinas, California. Baggage belonging to evacuees of Japanese ancestry has been brought to the park in the center of town ready to be trucked to the Salinas Assembly center where evacuees from this district will await transfer to a War Relocation Authority center to spend the duration.

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img Japanese Americans harvesting spinach (ddr-densho-37-316)

Original WRA caption: Trucking crated spinach from the fields to the packing shed. All vegetables which are not needed here are washed, iced and crated and sent to other relocation centers.

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img View of barracks (ddr-densho-37-171)

Original WRA caption: View of barracks looking east down the main fire break.

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img Officers searching segregants (ddr-densho-37-191)

Original WRA caption: Search of persons departing for Santa Fe Internment Camp 6-24-45, inside stockade.

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img Japanese American blacksmith (ddr-densho-37-176)

Original WRA caption: Evacuee blacksmiths do all the blacksmith work necessary in the garage, at this relocation center.

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img Harvest Festival Parade (ddr-densho-37-70)

Original WRA caption: Two of the evacuees who participated in the Harvest Festival Parade which was held at this relocation center.

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img Japanese Americans fishing (ddr-densho-37-367)

Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. During the noon hour, evacuee farm workers fish for carp in a nearby slough.

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img Japanese American departure from camp (ddr-densho-37-159)

Original WRA caption: Inspection of baggage of persons leaving Tule Lake March 20, 1946 for Crystal City, Tex. internment camp.

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img Camp garden and pond (ddr-densho-37-830)

Original WRA caption: Poston, Arizona. Landscaping done by evacuee residents of Camp Number1.

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img Barracks construction (ddr-densho-37-776)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Pre-fabricated wall sections are raised at the place by contractor's workmen in constructing barracks at this relocation center.

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img Drum and bugle corps (ddr-densho-37-565)

Original WRA caption: Topaz, Utah. A section of the drum and the bugle corps, a former boy scout unit, performs at the dedication of the hospital at the Topaz Relocation center.

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img Japanese American departure from camp (ddr-densho-37-125)

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img Harvest Festival Parade (ddr-densho-37-399)

Original WRA caption: Gila River Relocation Center, Rivers, Arizona. A view of some of the school children who participated in the Harvest Festival Parade held at the Gila River center on Thanksgiving Day.

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img Gravesite (ddr-densho-37-513)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Not all the center residents will return to their former homes. Many have found permanent "relocation" in the sandy soil on which the tar paper barracks were hurriedly erected. A total of nearly 15,000 evacuees were inducted into the Granada Project, Amache, Colorado, since August 27, 1942, when …

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img Leaving camp (ddr-densho-37-616)

Original WRA caption: Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. Jerome residents with their hand luggage wait at the chair car entrance for their names to be called by the War Relocation Authority official checking the list.

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img Japanese Americans out on a walk (ddr-densho-37-582)

Original WRA caption: Salinas, California. Evacuee girls out for a stroll at the Salinas Assembly center.

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img Japanese Americans working on camp water mains (ddr-densho-37-556)

Original WRA caption: Topaz, Utah. Young volunteer workers, residents at the Topaz Relocation Center, completing the water mains.

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img Japanese American farmers eating lunch (ddr-densho-37-363)

Original WRA caption: A view in the lunch shed at the farm. Trucks from the kitchens bring hot lunches to the workers.

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img Labor Day parade (ddr-densho-37-375)

Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. A parade was held by evacuees to celebrate labor day. Great originality in costuming was shown.

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