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18 items
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Mary Hirata Segment 23 (ddr-densho-1000-22-23)
Adjusting to life in Pocatello, Idaho, during the war
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Idaho J.A.C.L. meeting (ddr-densho-201-458)
Idaho meeting of the Japanese American Citizens League. Members are holding signs for "Boise Valley," "Pocatello," and "Snake River."
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Mary Hirata Interview (ddr-densho-1000-22)
Nisei female. Born November 27, 1926, in Wenatchee, Washington. Grew up in Wenatchee and moved to Seattle with family in 1938. Incarcerated at the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Resettled during World War II in Pocatello, Idaho. Returned to Seattle after World War II.
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 49, No. 25 (December 18, 1959) (ddr-pc-31-51)
Selected article titles: "Pocatello JACL alerts headline writer in Idaho on use of "Jap" (p. 1), "Nisei files to block deportation order issued 8 years ago" (p. 1), "16 states have specialized agencies to enforce anti-minority discrimination laws" (p. 3).
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Tulean Dispatch Vol. 7 No. 3 (September 18, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-403)
Selected article titles: "Hostel at Pocatello, Idaho to be Used for Stopping Place. Accommodations for Women Arranged" (p. 1), "Vegetable Harvesting Continues at Farm" (p. 1), "Foreign Properties, Cert. of Yen Must be Reported" (p. 1), "Tamura Drowns in a Canal at Minidoka" (p. 2), "As I See Castle Rock" (p. 3).
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Kaz Yamamoto Interview (ddr-manz-1-111)
Nisei male. Born March 18, 1924, in Sanger, California. Grew up in Santa Monica, California, where parents ran a farm. During World War II, removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. Left camp temporarily to work at a farm labor camp in Pocatello, Idaho. After leaving camp, lived and worked in Chicago, Illinois, before eventually returning …
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YWCA conference attendees (ddr-densho-111-11)
These young women were temporarily released from Tule Lake concentration camp to attend the YWCA conference.
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YWCA conference (ddr-densho-111-9)
Group photo of Pocatello YWCA sponsors of conference. Elaine Ishikawa Hayes is in the front row, far right.
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YWCA conference attendees (ddr-densho-111-10)
L to R: Aya Miyazaki, Sada Murayama and Elaine Ishikawa Hayes. These young women were temporarily released from Tule Lake concentration camp to attend the YWCA conference.
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Manzanar Free Press Vol. IV No. 6 (September 25, 1943) (ddr-densho-125-170)
Selected article titles: "Uphold Promise Given Domestic Minority Group" (p. 1), "Importance of School; Regulations About Attendance Explained by Fox" (p. 1), "Two Battery Cases Reported by Police" (p. 1), "Adopt Resolution Urging Relocation" (p. 1), "Answer Inquiries About Repatriates" (p. 1), "Water Consumption Decrease Disclosed" (p. 1), "Myer Announces Official Figures on Segregation" (p. 2), …
Narrator Mary Hirata
'Nisei female. Born November 27, 1926, in Wenatchee, Washington. Grew up in Wenatchee and moved to Seattle with family in 1938. Incarcerated at the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Resettled during World War II in Pocatello, Idaho. Returned to Seattle after World War II.
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USO hut (ddr-csujad-55-2371)
Postcard depicting a United Service Organization hut. Caption on postcard reads: USO Hut, Pocatello, Idaho where coffee, milk, sandwiches, cakes, and stationary are distributed by volunteer workers to servicemen and women traveling on the Union Pacific Railroad. Title from caption. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2477
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Jimmie Omura Interview Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1002-11-7)
Description of siblings in Japan; working as a schoolboy in Pocatello, Idaho
This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not …
Narrator Kaz Yamamoto
Nisei male. Born March 18, 1924, in Sanger, California. Grew up in Santa Monica, California, where parents ran a farm. During World War II, removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. Left camp temporarily to work at a farm labor camp in Pocatello, Idaho. After leaving camp, lived and worked in Chicago, Illinois, before eventually returning …
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Minidoka Irrigator Vol. III No. 31 (September 25, 1943) (ddr-densho-119-58)
Selected article titles: "First Group of 509 Tuleans Arrive. Local Segregants Board Train Today; Welcoming Committee Meets Tuleans" (p. 1), "Housing Moves Completed; 340 Apartments Open" (p. 1), "Jobs for Tuleans Available -- Beeson" (p. 1), "General Emmons States Views at Press Conference" (p. 1), "Idaho Japanese Push Third War Loan Drive" (p. 2), "First Idaho …