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img Assembly center check-in (ddr-densho-37-584)

Original WRA caption: Salinas, California. Seated in family groups, evacuees of Japanese ancestry check in at Armory before moving into the Salinas Assembly Center. They will later be transferred to War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

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img Barracks construction (ddr-densho-37-572)

Original WRA caption: Pomona, California. Workmen erecting barracks for evacuees of Japanese ancestry at assembly center on Pomona Fair grounds. Evacuees will be assigned later to War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

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img Harvest Festival Parade (ddr-densho-37-73)

Original WRA caption: Three costumes that were worn in the Harvest Festival Parade held at this relocation center.

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img Judo class (ddr-densho-37-545)

Original WRA caption: Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. A Judo class at this relocation area. Classes are held every afternoon and evening.

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img Japanese Americans landscaping (ddr-densho-37-558)

Original WRA caption: Topaz, Utah. To soften the general atmosphere at the hospital at the Topaz Relocation Center, these volunteer workers are preparing to move a tree to be transplanted near the hospital grounds.

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img Japanese Americans harvesting onions (ddr-densho-37-510)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Evacuee and appointed personnel office workers assisting in the onion harvest on the project farm during the volunteer farm harvest program. During the two week period when practically all project offices and sections went "all out" to help bring in the farm crops, more than eighty acres of …

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img Farmers tending to cauliflower plants (ddr-densho-37-2164)

More information included on back of photograph.

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img 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.

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img 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.

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img Co-op canteen (ddr-densho-37-150)

Original WRA caption: This is one of three Canteens under the Tule Lake Co-operatives, Inc., in which all kinds of merchandise is sold to residents of the center for their well-being. Not luxury items but articles of clothing, drugs, cosmetics, stationery, etc.

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img Japanese American making jewelry (ddr-densho-37-547)

Original WRA caption: Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. Among the unusual hobbies to be found in the relocation center, whose residents are former west coast persons of Japanese ancestry, is this former Californian's semi-precious stone cutting. He has prepared much interesting jewelry from bits of unusual stone picked up on the center grounds.

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img Japanese Americans moving luggage (ddr-densho-37-386)

Original WRA caption: Salinas, California. These evacuees, having identified their belongings which were brought to this Assembly Center by truck, are not taking it to their barrack homes. Later, when housing is available, they will be moved to a War Relocation Authority center.

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img Art class (ddr-densho-37-509)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. An adult art class under the direction of Tokio Ueyama, working in pencil sketch charcoals and oils. Adult art classes are extremely popular at the Amache Center.

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img Japanese Americans leaving camp by bus (ddr-densho-37-783)

Original WRA caption: Gila River Relocation Center, Rivers, Arizona. Aboard the Greyhound bus, which will take them to their former homes in California, these evacuees are anxious to be off. On September 15, two weeks before the Canal Camp at Rivers, Arizona, was to close, only 635 people remained and 370 of these had bus or …

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img Japanese American working on farm (ddr-densho-37-780)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Irrigating thinned lettuce on the project farm.

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img Japanese American children in a victory garden (ddr-densho-37-781)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Fourth grade children weeding their victory garden.

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img Grammar school (ddr-densho-37-170)

Original WRA caption: A view in grammer school at this relocation center.

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img Harvest Festival Parade (ddr-densho-37-72)

Original WRA caption: This float in the Harvest Festival consisted of garden produce from the farm at this relocation center.

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img Aerial view of the Jerome concentration camp (ddr-densho-37-629)

Original WRA caption: Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. A section of the center looking west.

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img View of Salinas Assembly Center (ddr-densho-37-577)

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 transferred to relocation centers further inland.

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img Hoshidan members unloading mattresses (ddr-densho-37-111)

Original WRA caption: "Recalcitrant" Hokoku unload mattresses to form beds outside building but within stockade enclosure when 300 are held at stockade over night for questioning.

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img Harvest Festival Parade (ddr-densho-37-71)

Original WRA caption: Farm workers who participated in the Harvest Festival Parade held at this relocation center. Their hats were fashioned from turnips.

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img Sixth graders exercising (ddr-densho-37-478)

Original WRA caption: Jerome Relocation Center, Dermott, Arkansas. View of 5th and 6th graders going through their exercises on elementary school grounds.

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