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17 items

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Yoneko Tanaka wearing an apron (ddr-densho-518-199)
Written next to photograph in scrapbook: Yoneko Tanaka.

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Japanese Americans carrying plywood (ddr-densho-15-55)
Yoneko Tanaka (left) and Norio Mitsuoka carry away lumber to make furniture.

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Interior of camp office (ddr-densho-15-52)
Yoneko Tanaka (seated, facing the camera) working in the camp's co-op office.

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Japanese American in front of a vanity (ddr-densho-15-47)
Yoneko Tanaka from Seattle did her best to make her austere barrack apartment homelike. She constructed the vanity from scrap lumber.

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Japanese Americans at Shoshone Falls (ddr-densho-15-68)
Shoshone Falls was an easy day trip for Japanese Americans from the Minidoka concentration camp. Camp inmates were allowed to leave Minidoka on short excursions with approval from camp administrators. Left to right: unidentified, unidentified, Ted Kamada, and Yoneko Tanaka.

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Japanese Americans at Shoshone Falls (ddr-densho-15-64)
Japanese Americans from the Minidoka concentration camp visit Shoshone Falls. This area was a popular destination for camp inmates on a day pass. Left to right: Yoneko Tanaka, Fusako Shimizu, Ayako (last name unknown), and Lily Hori.

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Japanese Americans at Shoshone Falls (ddr-densho-15-66)
These Japanese Americans enjoying a day at Shoshone Falls near the Minidoka concentration camp were allowed to leave the camp on an approved day pass. Left to right: Tom (last name unknown), Ted Kamada, Yoneko Tanaka, unidentified, Norio Mitsuoka, and Kiyoko (last name unknown).

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Japanese Americans inside barracks (ddr-densho-15-123)
Left to right: Norio Mitsuoka, Bob Ikeda, and Tak Hori sit inside Yoneko Tanaka's barracks.

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Survey Results (ddr-densho-356-989)
Typed up individual responses to a survey conducted on families at Granada in June 1943.

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Handwritten notes (ddr-densho-356-991)
Handwritten notes regarding survey (object 898), including individual answers to the survey.

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Fujihira family photograph album (ddr-densho-518-4)
An album containing photographs from the Fujihira family's time at Minidoka.

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Crystal City Chatter Issue 62 (ddr-densho-537-71)
Issue 62 includes a reunion update, information about a golf tournament, letters to the editor, and more.