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1521 items
1521 items

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Tule Lake Cooperator, Vol. 3, No. 42 (January 22, 1944) (ddr-densho-289-8)
Selected article titles: "Effects of 'Destroy the Status Quo' Policy Upon Co-op?" (p. 1), "News from Rohwer" (p. 1 ), and "Laundry Soap Arrives" (p. 2).

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The Tule Lake WRA Center Information Bulletin (February 12, 1944) (ddr-densho-284-3)
Selected article titles: "The Manzanar Folks" (p. 1), "A Newspaper in the Making" (p. 1), and a "Very Important Notice" for Nisei men.

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The Tule Lake WRA Center Information Bulletin (March 2, 1944) (ddr-densho-284-5)
Selected article titles: "Population Swells to 16,797 with Arrival of Manzanites" (p. 1), "Warrants Given to Five Nisei Granada Boys" (p. 1), and "Postonian Is Arrested for Sedition" (p. 4).

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The Newell Star, Vol. I, No. 13 (May 25, 1944) (ddr-densho-284-20)
Selected article titles: "WRA in Complete Charge of Stockade Administration" (pp. 1-2), "Tule Lake Chronology: First Evacuees Open Center Two Years Ago" (p. 2), and "Elderly Man Hangs Self at Hospital" (p. 2).

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The Tule Lake WRA Center Information Bulletin (February 22, 1944) (ddr-densho-284-4)
Selected article titles: "Gov't to Continue Efforts to Reunite Those Interned" (p. 1) and "Welcome, Manzanites!" (p. 2).

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The Newell Star, Vol. I, No. 6 (April 13, 1944) (ddr-densho-284-11)
Selected article titles: "Co-ordinators Tender Resignations: Return to Normal State Given Reason for Action" (p. 1, 3), "H. Black Quells Segregation and Repatriation Rumors" (p. 1, 4), "Reserve Corps Status Defined" (p. 1), and "Fiscal Section Reveals 5011 Colonists on WRA Payroll" (p. 2).

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Young Japanese Americans playing (ddr-densho-151-377)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Young evacuees of Japanese ancestry at this War Relocation Authority center.

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Young Japanese American reading comics (ddr-densho-151-472)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuee boy at this War Relocation Authority center reading the Funnies.

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Staff bus (ddr-densho-161-12)
This bus was for War Relocation Authority Staff who lived in Lamar, Colorado.

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Weekly Report to Director (ddr-densho-156-161)
To D.S. Myer, War Relocation Authority Director, from H.L. Stafford, Director of Minidoka.

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Booklet: "Nisei in Uniform" (ddr-densho-274-21)
Booklet published by the War Relocation Authority (WRA) on Japanese Americans in the military during World War II.

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Barracks construction (ddr-densho-37-257)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Building first house at Tule Lake War Relocation Authority center.

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Portrait of a young Japanese American (ddr-densho-151-378)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. A young evacuee of Japanese ancestry at this War Relocation Authority center.

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Letter to Martin Dies from Dillon S. Myer (ddr-densho-381-5)
A letter to Martin Dies, Chairman of the Special Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities, from Dillon S. Myer, War Relocation Authority Director, about misleading statements made by committee members and their affect on the War Relocation Authority.

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First Quarterly Report, March 18-June 30, 1942 (ddr-densho-282-13)
First quarterly year report of the WRA, dealing "almost exclusively with people of Japanese birth or Japanese ancestry."

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Check transmittal (ddr-densho-469-7)
A receipt and check to cover services for October 1942, addressed to Kazuo Otani.

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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.

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Grandfather and grandson (ddr-densho-151-51)
Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Grandfather and grandson of Japanese ancestry at this War Relocation Authority center.

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"Nisei in Uniform" (ddr-densho-155-19)
Publication of the U.S. Department of the Interior and the War Relocation Authority in collaboration with the War Department.

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Letter to D.S. Myer, Director, War Relocation Authority (ddr-csujad-51-3)
A handwritten letter from J. Flores to Dillon S. Myer, Director, War Relocation Authority. Flores is responding to a reference request (hslb_lbph_0061) from the War Relocation Authority about his Japanese American neighbor, Shigetoshi Sugiyama, who had applied to leave the incarceration camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: hslb_lbph_0062

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War Relocation Authority change of residence report card (ddr-csujad-5-77)
A blank form of "War Relocation Authority change of residence report card." It addresses "Mr. Vernon Kennedy, Relocation Supervisor," in Chicago, Illinois. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: oki_01_16_002

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War Relocation Authority: "Bibliography of Japanese in America" (ddr-densho-35-424)
A bibliography compiled by the War Relocation Authority of all the written sources on Japanese Americans.