Line of seated young people in kimonos and stage makeup, costumed for a performance of "Meiboku Sendai Hagi" at the Nippon Kan Theatre. Printed and pasted on back of photograph: "A scene from a kabuki that pleased the Issei. Like their counterparts in Japan, the actors wore heavy makeup for the play. No photo credit needed." …
Newspaper clipping regarding a film by Steve Okazaki on Estelle Ishigo, a non-Japanese woman who chose to accompany her husband, a Japanese American, to Heart Mountain incarceration camp. Covers the making of the film and background on the life of Estelle Ishigo. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2155
Photograph of 10 students of Hilo Boarding School posed around the base of a flag pole, Soichi T. Yamamoto is in the back row, second from the left. Written on the top of the photograph is "Cosmopolitan Gathering at flagpole HBS - 1905-6" in blue ink.
Photograph of students and teachers gathered to celebrate the graduation of Hilo Boarding School's 1906 class. Graduates are dressed in dark suits with leis draped over their shoulders and stand behind a basaltic rock with their class year carved into the surface. Second from the left is Soichi T. Yamamoto. Written in the lower left corner …
Caption: "Mr. Okaski, Mr. Suglyama, Mr. Tsuyuki, Mr. Hagio, Mr. Yamamoto, Mr. Tanaka, Mr. Hatori, Mr. Yamada, Mr. Musashi, Mr. Takamura." Caption on reverse: "Our roommates in Barracks No 5. Santa Fe Interment [sic]."
Original WRA caption: Gila River Relocation Center, Rivers, Arizona. Mrs. Yamamoto, former P.T.A. president from San Francisco, and now hear of the Canal Women's Club, presents Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt with a bouquet of flowers.
Original WRA caption: Gila River Relocation Center, Rivers, Arizona. Mrs. Yamamoto, former P.T.A. president from San Francisco, and now hear of the Canal Women's Club, presents Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt with a bouquet of flowers.
Selected article titles: "Bath House Planned for Nursery Dept." (p. 1), "Poston to Have 12 Acres Tomatoes" (p. 1), "Public Health to Be Guarded. Sanitation Survey Underway in Unit 2 by Mas Yamamoto" (p. 3).
A group poses for a photograph on a summer hike from Heart Mountain. Front row (left to right): Asano Marutama, Kiyo, Kimiko, Nancy Oyama, Hatsuye Shimizu; Back row: Mr. Yamamoto, Kimi Kuwahara, Tomi Ichida, Toshiko
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Living conditions in camp and being caught out of bounds
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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 reflect the views of the Department of the Interior.
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 reflect the views of the Department of the Interior.
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 reflect the views of the Department of the Interior.
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 reflect the views of the Department of the Interior.