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![Military police on watchtower (ddr-densho-37-392)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/fc/b9/fcb98f1fcfd5b4131a239d418bcef8e5.jpg)
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Military police on watchtower (ddr-densho-37-392)
Original WRA caption: Arcadia, California. Military police on duty in watch-tower at the Santa Anita Assembly Center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Evacuees are transferred to War Relocation Authority Centers for the duration.
![Japanese Americans climbing Castle Rock (ddr-densho-37-178)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/99/86/998692aa667b71ea3a897fa2f8bcd902.jpg)
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Japanese Americans climbing Castle Rock (ddr-densho-37-178)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. A pleasant Sunday afternoon's recreation is spent by evacuee winter sports enthusiasts, on the slopes of Castle Mountain. Homemade sleds and various other homemade pieces of equipment were used by these young people.
![Japanese American meeting Eleanor Roosevelt (ddr-densho-37-605)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/61/4d/614dfd75e7cafc0ecb6309207a284eee.jpg)
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Japanese American meeting Eleanor Roosevelt (ddr-densho-37-605)
Original WRA caption: Gila River Relocation Center, Rivers, Arizona. Mrs. Yamamoto, former P.T.A. president from San Francisco, and now hear of the Canal Women's Club, presents Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt with a bouquet of flowers.
![Japanese Americans harvesting spinach (ddr-densho-37-599)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/bb/39/bb39c53c5eb6da5f729d695a1cc39ac3.jpg)
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Japanese Americans harvesting spinach (ddr-densho-37-599)
Original WRA caption: Gila River Relocation Center, Rivers, Arizona. Evacuee farmers harvesting spinach at this relocation center.
![Camp Catholic church (ddr-densho-37-826)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/e4/f2/e4f2f9779e06d81aec0a6d085434debe.jpg)
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Camp Catholic church (ddr-densho-37-826)
Original WRA caption: Poston, Arizona. Children and their parents who once attended the Catholic Church of Father Clement, Maryknoll Priest, are now reestablished in homes back in California or throughout the Middle West and the East. Units II and III of the Colorado River Relocation Center, Poston, Arizona, meet their scheduled closings ahead of the deadline. …
![Football squad (ddr-densho-37-546)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/f7/cb/f7cb82ba346fc95bfedb563880d2ae68.jpg)
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Football squad (ddr-densho-37-546)
Original WRA caption: Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. A football squad at the Rohwer Center.
![Japanese American blacksmiths (ddr-densho-37-175)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/13/fd/13fdaccc480d498bfeb8cb2e383d253f.jpg)
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Japanese American blacksmiths (ddr-densho-37-175)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Evacuee blacksmiths do all the blacksmith work necessary in the garage at this relocation center.
![Japanese Americans transplanting trees (ddr-densho-37-569)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/37/f0/37f08bddf9d441bf07b6439944a59061.jpg)
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Japanese Americans transplanting trees (ddr-densho-37-569)
Original WRA caption: Topaz, Utah. Transplanting trees from existing farms to the hospital area at the Topaz Relocation Center.
![Japanese American grade school students (ddr-densho-37-548)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/db/86/db866a9681f72ee87f935210725eaf95.jpg)
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Japanese American grade school students (ddr-densho-37-548)
Original WRA caption: Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. Two young grade school students watch the camera as their pictures are being taken.
![Camp building fire (ddr-densho-37-352)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/37/e1/37e1aa3831380dde3ae2edb73fc11987.jpg)
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Camp building fire (ddr-densho-37-352)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Quick work, by the evacuee Fire Department, kept the fire, which broke out in the office located at the old hog farm, from doing other than minor damage.
![Japanese Americans building a barrack porch (ddr-densho-37-407)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/18/cc/18cccb6cdd46254c815c1ae500cc1f36.jpg)
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Japanese Americans building a barrack porch (ddr-densho-37-407)
Original WRA caption: Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee Arkansas. A typical street scene. Wood for fuel is piled in the barracks street and a crew of evacuees is building on a front porch.
![Newsreel and newspaper cameramen in camp (ddr-densho-37-355)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/54/3f/543f00666cf356518d79f7e3e5c2c66a.jpg)
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Newsreel and newspaper cameramen in camp (ddr-densho-37-355)
Original WRA caption: Newsreel cameramen and newspaper cameramen from the San Francisco newspapers photograph potatoe planting on the farm at the Tule Lake Relocation Center.
![Japanese American inside barracks (ddr-densho-37-485)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/05/5a/055ae2bcfcfa61b0ecce280684281e08.jpg)
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Japanese American inside barracks (ddr-densho-37-485)
Original WRA caption: Salinas Assembly Center, Salinas, California. Barracks interior at assembly center where persons of Japanese ancestry lived temporarily after evacuation from the west coast in the spring of 1942.
![Construction workers with military police (ddr-densho-37-820)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/94/a8/94a888072098fabdadb469776348ea7c.jpg)
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Construction workers with military police (ddr-densho-37-820)
Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Time out to talk over the construction of water pipes at this War Relocation Authority center.
![Salinas Assembly Center (ddr-densho-37-576)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/2b/40/2b401f116503fe37cf72149ef296e2d2.jpg)
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Salinas Assembly Center (ddr-densho-37-576)
Original WRA caption: Salinas Assembly Center, California. Panorama of Salinas Assembly center. Persons of Japanese ancestry evacuated from coastal areas were held first in assembly centers before being assigned to relocation centers further inland.
![Japanese American harvesting turnips (ddr-densho-37-362)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/53/bc/53bc316c1f55fe3c8cc8c888c004fc7b.jpg)
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Japanese American harvesting turnips (ddr-densho-37-362)
Original WRA caption: Harvesting turnips.
![Camp administration buildings (ddr-densho-37-778)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/46/d6/46d63f47add2a03598fb92c4e16ea5d0.jpg)
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Camp administration buildings (ddr-densho-37-778)
Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. A review of the administrative area after a December snow storm. At the left is the post office and the two buildings at the right are administrative office buildings.
![<i>Bon Odori</i> festival (ddr-densho-37-775)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/26/51/2651fcddcc80feaf57036a40861df662.jpg)
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Bon Odori festival (ddr-densho-37-775)
Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Part of the approximately 1,000 dancers who participated in the Bon Odori festival sponsored by the Granada Buddhist Church on August 14. Spectators are shown in the background. This dance was held at night on the baseball diamond.
![Highway sign (ddr-densho-37-400)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/6f/3d/6f3d67d3d66ec19a4d2210bcfe95e253.jpg)
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Highway sign (ddr-densho-37-400)
Original WRA caption: Poston, Arizona. Highway leading to this war Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry on the Colorado River Indian Reservation.
![Muddy conditions (ddr-densho-37-350)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/9f/24/9f24e18f9059ec85cba35abf4d338bab.jpg)
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Muddy conditions (ddr-densho-37-350)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Thaws turn the streets and firebreaks into seas of mud, and makes difficult motor transportation through the center.
![Japanese American departure from camp (ddr-densho-37-162)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/5e/fb/5efb06f1c657b9691607246504c81bcc.jpg)
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Japanese American departure from camp (ddr-densho-37-162)
Original WRA caption: From all over the colony they stream to the processing office for this is Tule's last day of existence. Department of Justice has scheduled a special train which carried approximately 450 to internment camp at Crystal City, Tex. Less than 100 including families of renunciants who had not yet been reprieved were to …
![Mess hall food (ddr-densho-37-413)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/98/0a/980a75da6b4e3333eb4990970f6fadde.jpg)
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Mess hall food (ddr-densho-37-413)
Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Meals are being served cafeteria style at this War Relocation Authority Center.
![Child waiting for mess hall meal (ddr-densho-37-518)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/c6/79/c67949643a68c0da70b120e362997ada.jpg)
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Child waiting for mess hall meal (ddr-densho-37-518)
Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. It is a long time between meals at the mess hall for a hungry man, so the cracker box at the Kobayashi barracks gets a frequent raiding.
![Japanese Americans voting (ddr-densho-37-168)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/f1/c3/f1c3d3e4f635d8f20a2ab8c508ea9823.jpg)
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Japanese Americans voting (ddr-densho-37-168)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Absentee voters of Japanese descent getting ballots and having them notarized.