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485 items
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Gila News-Courier Vol. III No. 119 (May 25, 1944) (ddr-densho-141-275)
Selected article titles: "Segregation: Smiles, Tears at Parting" (p. 1), "More Receive Induction Orders" (p. 1), "Evacuee Shot at Tule Lake" (p. 1), "More Questions on the Draft" (p. 2), "Editorial: 'A Polite Excuse'" (p. 2), "Trial Set for Wyoming Nisei" (p. 3), "'Stick to Job, Mess Workers'" (p. 3), "Nisei Sisters Plead Innocent" (p. 5), …
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Rocky Shimpo Vol. 11, No. 144 (December 1, 1944) (ddr-densho-148-78)
Selected article titles: "Busseis of Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska Hold Successful Conclave"; "On the Other Hand"; "Tokyo-Born Boy to Enter Army"; "Relocation Office to Open in Pittsburgh"; "Oversea Service"; "Say Bill Was Poorly Written"; "Yatabe's Report Will be Given"; "Want Ads Today"; "Civil Liberties' Wirin Speaker at Conference"; "Casualty Toll Stands at 263"; "Segregants From Hawaii …
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Daily Press Review, Vol. V, No. 17 (ddr-densho-156-257)
Article titles: "Jap-American is Sentenced"; "Jap Labor Being Recruited"; "Farmers Protest Grog Sales to Jap Evacuees"; "Trainload of Japs Passes Through to State's Beet Fields"; "New York Optical Company Building Factory at Center"; "Activities of Heart Mountain, Wyoming"; by Bill Hosokawa"; "Scott Taggart to Heart Mountain Job"; "Speaker Tells of Jap Camp Near Jerome"; "8,000 More …
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Japanese American playing a board game (ddr-densho-37-428)
Original WRA caption: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. An early immigrant from Japan, now residing at Heart Mountain, after evacuation from West Coast areas, reaches for a pawn in a game of Shogi, similar in characters and playing to chess. Although previously mumbling in Japanese, startled by the camera flas, the old gent let …
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Takata family members at Heart Mountain (ddr-ajah-6-693)
Caption below photo: Heart Mountain, Wyoming, circa 1942-1945. Roy is the son of Takeno and Tomoshige Nakata (Tomoshige is not pictured). Hisao is Tomoshige's brother. Sei is Hisao's second wife. Sueno is Tomoshige and Hisao's mother and Roy's grandmother. The Takata's originally settled in Alameda, CA. By the 1930s, Takeno and husband Tomoshige had moved to …
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Sachi Kaneshiro Interview (ddr-manz-1-67)
Nisei female. Born January 1, 1920, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in Covina, California. Worked for the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA). Volunteered to go early to Poston concentration camp, Arizona, to help set up the camp. Eventually transferred to Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming, before leaving for New York. Eventually pursued a career in …
Narrator Shig Yabu
Nisei male. Born June 13, 1932, in San Francisco, California. During World War II, removed to the Pomona Assembly Center, California, and the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. While in camp, found an injured magpie bird, named it Maggie, and adopted it as a pet. Following the war, wrote a children's book, Hello, Maggie! and became …
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Eiichi Edward Sakauye Interview I (ddr-densho-1005-1)
Nisei male. Born January 25, 1912, in San Jose, California. Grew up in San Jose, working on family's extensive farmholdings, and graduating from San Jose Teachers College. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, was removed to Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. While at Heart Mountain, became the agriculture superintendent, and …
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Woman standing in front of camp barracks (ddr-csujad-37-5)
Photograph of a woman wearing a winter coat in snow at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. Barracks pictured behind her. Handwritten note on back of photograph states "Heart Mt. (Mountain) Reloc (Relocation) Cl [Camp] Wyoming." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: mhf_005_01
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Daily Press Review, Vol. VII, No. 20 (ddr-densho-156-309)
Article titles: "Interned Japs Must be Better Guarded, Disciplined, Congress Told"; "...Japanese Camp Groups Split, Some Jailed"; "Brief Filed Against Jap Exclusion"; "Mavericks by Frank M. King"; "Director Named for Jap Project;"; "Jerome Rotarians Tour Hunt Center"; "Hawaii Japanese Held Loyal to U.S."; "Japanese-Americans Blame 'Military Fascists' for War"; "Hawaii Proposes to Use Japanese to Push …
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Daily Press Review, Vol. V, No. 3 (ddr-densho-156-243)
Article titles: "Newsnotes from Manzanar"; "Delta County Beet Growers Agree to Employ Japanese"; "Missouri College Accepts Japanese Despite Protests"; "10,000 Best Workers Needed in Montana"; "Idaho Relocation Center is Half Filled"; "Brandt Urges Farmers Seek Labor Now"; "Inquisitive Cameraman"; "Japanese Center Should Not Cause Any Shortages Here..."; "FBI Seizes Japanese Alien in New York"; "Japanese Center, …
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Amy Iwasaki Mass Interview (ddr-densho-1000-470)
Nisei female. Born July 5, 1935, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in Los Angeles, where father ran a produce business. During World War II, removed to the Pomona Assembly Center, California, and the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. After leaving camp, returned to family home in Los Angeles. Became a social worker, one of the …
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Kunio Otani Interview (ddr-densho-1000-75)
Nisei male. Born July 31, 1921, in Seattle, Washington. Raised in Raymond, Washington. Incarcerated at Tule Lake concentration camp, California, and Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming; he worked on the staff of both camp newspapers, the Tulean Dispatch and the Heart Mountain Sentinel, respectively. Resettled in Seattle after the war and entered the greenhouse business. He …
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Dorothy Kuwaye Interview (ddr-manz-1-68)
Nisei female. Born May 7, 1928, in Covina, California. At young age, suffered an accident in which she was hit by a car, and was raised by a non-Japanese American family. During World War II, rejoined biological family in the Pomona Assembly Center, California, and Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Lived for a time in New …
Narrator Bacon Sakatani
Nisei male. Born August 23, 1929, in El Monte, California. Grew up in El Monte, before being removed with family during World War II to the Pomona Assembly Center, California, and the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Returned to California after leaving camp, and opened a produce market and did gardening work. Active with various Japanese …
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CSU Northridge Heart Mountain Relocation Center Collection (ddr-csujad-45)
The Heart Mountain Relocation Center was built during the summer of 1942 and received its first contingent of Japanese Americans on August 12, 1942. It is located in Park County, northwestern Wyoming. The collection contains Community Camp Council meeting minutes, camp laws, correspondence, the case of People of Heart Mountain vs. Tom Yamada, and other documents.
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Shig Yabu Interview Segment 24 (ddr-densho-1000-272-24)
Deciding to write a book about pet bird and getting involved with the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation
This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily …
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Frank Emi Interview I Segment 4 (ddr-densho-122-5-4)
Living and working in the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming
This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily …
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Frank Emi Interview II Segment 3 (ddr-densho-122-20-3)
Preparing for mass removal; memories of Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming
This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead …
Narrator Bernadette Suda Horiuchi
Nisei female. Born February 11, 1913, in Seattle, Washington. Grew up in the Seattle and Bellevue, Washington, areas. In 1928, was involved in a serious ferry accident in which five of her family members, including both of her parents, perished. Married renowned artist Paul Horiuchi and lived in Rock Springs, Wyoming, where Paul worked for a …
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James T. Komoto portrait (ddr-densho-463-2)
Written beside photograph on scrapbook page: This Album is the property of James T. Komoto 2-17-0 Ht. Mt. Wyoming, Notice: Please Do Not Take Any Snapshot In This Album Because The Owner Has Had A Hard Time Collecting Them, Also Anyone Caught Taking any Snapshot May be Shot with A Camera with no Question Asked, Notice: …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 15 No. 10 (August 6, 1942) (ddr-pc-14-13)
Selected article titles: "Manzanar Nisei Send Petition To President Asking Overseas War Combat Duty, Says Nash" (p. 1), "Army Announces New Evacuee Movements to Idaho, Wyoming" (p. 1), "Military Regulations Relaxed as Family Attends Seattle Funeral" (p. 2), "Fair Play Group Contributes to Test Case Fund" (p. 3), "Mexico to Intern Citizens of Japan Living on …
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Christmas card (with envelope) to Mollie Wilson from Miyeko Imamura (c. 1944) (ddr-janm-1-68)
Christmas card to Mollie Wilson from Miyeko Imamura (c. 1944). Black card, red border with illustration in red/green/blue of a woman in a Christmas dress holding a yellow handkerchief in one hand and a basket of holly in the other. "Yoo Hoo!" is on the front of card. Envelope is postmarked but does not give a …
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Jane Kaihatsu Interview (ddr-chi-1-9)
Sansei female. Born June 2, 1957, in Chicago, Illinois. During World War II, her father's family was sent to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Her mother's family was incarcerated at the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, and the Gila River concentration camp, Arizona. After leaving camp the Jane's parents …
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Marianne West Interview (ddr-densho-1000-120)
Nisei female. Born November 4, 1926, in Seattle, Washington. Family lived in Leavenworth, Washington, then moved to the West Coast. After the outbreak of World War II, family was removed from Bellingham, Washington, to Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Transferred to Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming, before leaving to resettle in Spokane, Washington.
(This interview took …