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Heart Mountain Relocation Project Fourth Community Council, 13th session (March 15, 1945) (ddr-csujad-45-16)
doc Heart Mountain Relocation Project Fourth Community Council, 13th session (March 15, 1945) (ddr-csujad-45-16)
The council minutes feature a discussion of the plans for a camp wide picnic. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMRC_01-01_045
Heart Mountain Relocation Project Fifth Community Council, 13th session (September 25, 1945) (ddr-csujad-45-64)
doc Heart Mountain Relocation Project Fifth Community Council, 13th session (September 25, 1945) (ddr-csujad-45-64)
The council minutes feature a discussion on orderly movement of closing the camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMRC_01-01_093
Heart Mountain Relocation Project Fourth Community Council, 6th session (February 27, 1945) (ddr-csujad-45-10)
doc Heart Mountain Relocation Project Fourth Community Council, 6th session (February 27, 1945) (ddr-csujad-45-10)
The council minutes feature the election of the spokesman for the Spanish Vice Consul meeting, and agreed upon which questions to ask at the meeting. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMRC_01-01_039
Heart Mountain Relocation Project Fifth Community Council, 8th session (September 7, 1945) (ddr-csujad-45-59)
doc Heart Mountain Relocation Project Fifth Community Council, 8th session (September 7, 1945) (ddr-csujad-45-59)
The council minutes feature a report on carload shipments into resettled areas. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMRC_01-01_088
Heart Mountain Relocation Project Fourth Community Council, 23rd session (April 17, 1945) (ddr-csujad-45-25)
doc Heart Mountain Relocation Project Fourth Community Council, 23rd session (April 17, 1945) (ddr-csujad-45-25)
The council minutes feature plans for the "All-Center Conference." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMRC_01-01_054
Letter from Robert Allison A., Chairman, Leave Clearance Committee, to George Naohara, May 10, 1944 (ddr-csujad-38-564)
doc Letter from Robert Allison A., Chairman, Leave Clearance Committee, to George Naohara, May 10, 1944 (ddr-csujad-38-564)
A letter from Robert A. Allison, Chairman of the Jerome camp in Arkansas to George Nobuo Naohara incarcerated in the camp. It orders George to visit his office for Selective Service credentials. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nao_05_13_017
Daily Press Review, Vol. III, No. 16 (ddr-densho-156-218)
doc Daily Press Review, Vol. III, No. 16 (ddr-densho-156-218)
Article titles: "American-Born Japs Allowed to Enter War Poster Contest"; "Utah Officials Study Evacuee Education Problem"; "Japanese Workers Help in Idaho Beet-Thinning"; "More Traitors"; "Aliens are Called Eager to Assist America in War"; "Colombia Moves Axis Citizens"; "Tule Lake Project Population 10,946"; "War Relocation Authority Opens Cody Office"; "Evacuated Japs Dine as Family Unit"; "Wilkes Leaves …

Narrator Miyoko Tsuboi Nakagawa

Nisei female. Born March 8, 1925, in Portland, Oregon. Lost mother at an early age and helped to take care of the family. During World War II, removed to the Portland Assembly Center, Oregon, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. After leaving camp, worked for a War Relocation Authority office helping to return confiscated property to …
Letter from John J. McCloy, Assistant Secretary of War, to Dillon S. Myer (ddr-densho-67-23)
doc Letter from John J. McCloy, Assistant Secretary of War, to Dillon S. Myer (ddr-densho-67-23)
Letter from John J. McCloy, Assistant Secretary of War, to Dillon S. Myer, Director of the War Relocation Authority. Reporting recommendations of Dr. Dedrick, head of the Statistical Division of the Wartime Civil Control Administration. Urges segregation of the "pro-Japan" Kibei and Issei, and expresses fear of internal security incidents in the camps, and "contamination" of …
Resolution by the Native Sons of the Golden West (ddr-densho-67-91)
doc Resolution by the Native Sons of the Golden West (ddr-densho-67-91)
A list of resolutions adopted by the Native Sons of the Golden West. They believe that the War Relocation Authority and Dillon Myer cannot properly control the internees at Tule Lake and suggest the U.S. Army take over. Also call for the permanent ban on Japanese immigration as well as the execution of Japanese in charge …
Poston Information Bulletin Vol. II No. 10 (June 23, 1942) (ddr-densho-145-36)
doc Poston Information Bulletin Vol. II No. 10 (June 23, 1942) (ddr-densho-145-36)
Selected article titles: "School Classes at Poston Will Begin October 1, Says Regional WRA Office" (p. 1), "Dillon Myer Succeeds M.S. Eisenhower as War Relocation Authority Chief" (p. 1), "Railhead Warehouses Aid Supply Transport" (p. 1), "New Well at Comp #3 Assures Completion of Water Supply" (p. 1).
Obituary, Dillon S. Myer (ddr-csujad-55-2414)
doc Obituary, Dillon S. Myer (ddr-csujad-55-2414)
Newspaper clipping published in "San Francisco chronicle" of the obituary of War Relocation Authority Director, Dillon S. Myer. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2520
Japanese Americans waiting for baggage inspection (ddr-densho-151-226)
img Japanese Americans waiting for baggage inspection (ddr-densho-151-226)
Original caption: Turlock, California. These evacuees of Japanese ancestry have just arrived at this Assembly center and are awaiting the inspection of their baggage. They will then be assigned places in the barracks to remain until they are transferred to a War Relocation Authority center for the duration.
Japanese American waiting with baggage (ddr-densho-151-103)
img Japanese American waiting with baggage (ddr-densho-151-103)
Original caption: San Francisco, California. An early comer arrives with personal effects at 2020 Van Ness Avenue as part of the 664 residents of Japanese ancestry to be evacuated from San Francisco on April 6, 1942. Evacuees will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.
Japanese Americans waiting with baggage (ddr-densho-151-101)
img Japanese Americans waiting with baggage (ddr-densho-151-101)
Original caption: San Francisco. Early comers arrive with personal effects at 2020 Van Ness Avenue as part of the contingent of 664 residents of Japanese ancestry, first to be evacuated from San Francisco on April 6, 1942. Evacuees will housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.
Mother with two young children waiting for bus (ddr-densho-151-200)
img Mother with two young children waiting for bus (ddr-densho-151-200)
Original caption: Centerville, California. Members of farm family await evacuation bus. In March they came from Santa Barbara County to Alameda County, so that all members of the family could be evacuated together. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.
Japanese American discussing financial affairs (ddr-densho-151-98)
img Japanese American discussing financial affairs (ddr-densho-151-98)
Original caption: San Francisco, California. A business man of Japanese ancestry confers with a representative of the Federal Reserve Bank at Wartime Civil Control Administration station to arrange disposition of his financial affairs prior to evacuation. Evacuees will be housed at War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.
Japanese Americans registering for mass removal (ddr-densho-151-116)
img Japanese Americans registering for mass removal (ddr-densho-151-116)
Original caption: The full caption for this photograph reads: San Francisco, California. In response to the Army's Exclusion Order Number 20, residents of Japanese ancestry appear at Civil Control Station at 2031 Bush Street for registration. The evacuees will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.
Administrative notice, no. 247 (April 24, 1945) (ddr-csujad-55-1669)
doc Administrative notice, no. 247 (April 24, 1945) (ddr-csujad-55-1669)
Summer assignments for teachers employed by the War Relocation Authority including remedial work, Relocation Center school closing procedures, nursery schools, adult vocational activities, relocation advising, supplementary family visits, assisting with group discussion, assisting with the relocation planning commission, assisting with the library, welfare work, childcare services, summer activities, programming, leadership training, and national agency programming. See …
Helen Amerman Manning Collection (ddr-densho-171)
Collection Helen Amerman Manning Collection (ddr-densho-171)
This collection contains documents donated to Densho by Helen Amerman Manning, a high school teacher at the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho, during World War II. The collection includes several publications by the War Relocation Authority.
Place of schools in War Relocation Centers (ddr-csujad-55-1690)
doc Place of schools in War Relocation Centers (ddr-csujad-55-1690)
Essay by Mrs. Lucy W. Adams on the role of schools in Relocation Centers. Covers the birth of a community, the task of schools in incarceration camps, and the educational policy of the War Relocation Authority. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1692
Orphans at Manzanar Childrens' Village (ddr-densho-151-443)
img Orphans at Manzanar Childrens' Village (ddr-densho-151-443)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuee orphans from an institution in San Francisco who are now established for the duration in the Childrens' Village at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Mrs. Harry Matsumoto, a University of California graduate, and her husband are superintendants of the Childrens' Village where 65 …
Notice from Hugo W. Wolter, Acting Chief, Community Services, War Relocation Authority Gila River Project, June 24, 1943 (ddr-csujad-42-92)
doc Notice from Hugo W. Wolter, Acting Chief, Community Services, War Relocation Authority Gila River Project, June 24, 1943 (ddr-csujad-42-92)
A notice issued by War Relocation Authority Gila River Project. It clarifies the process of the leave requests from the incarcerees whose answers to the questions 27 and 28 are in the negative. It instructs "those wishing to change their answers to questions 27 and 28" to write a letter to L. H. Bennett, Project Director …
Letter from Ed Bethune, Personnel Technician, United States Department of the Interior War Relocation Authority, November 7, 1945 (ddr-csujad-5-101)
doc Letter from Ed Bethune, Personnel Technician, United States Department of the Interior War Relocation Authority, November 7, 1945 (ddr-csujad-5-101)
A recommendation letter for Hatsuno Hotty Okine written by Ed Bethune, United States Department of the Interior War Relocation Authority, who is her supervisor when she is employed in "the Evacuee Personnel Section of the Rohwer Relocation Center." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: oki_01_31_001
Invoice from South-Western Publishing Co. to Verne T. Underwood, War Relocation Authority Education Department, June 30, 1944 (ddr-csujad-55-1001)
doc Invoice from South-Western Publishing Co. to Verne T. Underwood, War Relocation Authority Education Department, June 30, 1944 (ddr-csujad-55-1001)
Invoice from South-Western Publishing Co. to Verne T. Underwood of the War Relocation Authority Education Department, Heart Mountain, issued on June 30, 1944. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1003
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