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img Masa and Toshi Ogawa in front of barracks garden (ddr-densho-420-26)

Caption on reverse: "Taken Oct. '44 / Manzanar, Calif / Toshi."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-420-26/

img Masa Ogawa and Ellen in Manzanar (ddr-densho-420-15)

Caption on reverse: "April '44 / Manzanar, Calif / me & Ellen."

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img Shinjo Nagatomi and his family (ddr-manz-4-251)

Caption on reverse: "Last picture / before leaving / Manzanar 1945."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-4-251/

doc Letter to Anne Margrave from Thomas M. Temple (ddr-densho-342-38)

Letter from Thomas M. Temple, Chief Community Services Division, Manzanar, to Anne Margrave, Librarian of the Inyo County Free Library of Independence, California, regarding planning a library for Manzanar.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-342-38/

img Military Police (ddr-densho-37-808)

Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Army military police go on duty to guard the boundaries of this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-808/

vh Edwin "Ed" L. Rothfuss Interview Segment 4 (ddr-manz-1-163-4)

Involvement in the decision to make Manzanar a unit of the National Park Service

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-1-163-4/

vh Rose Tanaka Interview Segment 16 (ddr-manz-1-145-16)

Coping with conditions in Manzanar: "I felt like I went to a foreign country"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-1-145-16/

doc Manzanar presentation research binder (ddr-densho-450-1)

A binder of documents related to a presentation given by Joh Sekiguchi in 1994. Contains copies of the Inyo Museums News Bulletin, maps of Manzanar, and other research.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-450-1/

doc "Murder in Camp Manzanar" (ddr-densho-67-18)

Document written by J.Y. Kurihara. Account of incident in which Harry Ueno, a kitchen worker, was accused of assaulting Fred Tayama, JACL member and accused "informant." Kitchen Workers Union members and Manzanar residents went to administration to demand the release from jail of Ueno and soldiers fired on crowd, killing one person. Members of the Kitchen …

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doc "Baptist Leaders Visit Manzanar" (ddr-densho-68-52)

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doc "Koba Elected at Manzanar" (ddr-densho-68-68)

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img Manzanar High School auditorium (ddr-csujad-36-3)

Photograph of Manzanar incarceration camp buildings, including the Manzanar High School auditorium and sports facilities. A photo from: Manzanar Photo Album. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: man_01_003

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doc Manzanar from the inside (ddr-csujad-48-62)

Text of address by Roy Nash, Director of the Manzanar War Relocation Project, given to the Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco, on July 31, 1942 for the purpose of "interpret[ing] the actuality of a War Relocation Center housing 10,000 evacuees" in view of perceptions of mistreatment of incarcerees in California. Sections of the speech include …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-48-62/

doc Manzanar and its purpose (ddr-csujad-48-27)

Assignment by Mary Honda for period II History class taught by Mr. Harry Bentley Wells, a teacher at Manzanar High School. Mary describes the reason for being at Manzanar and the need to do everything possible to make Manzanar as home-like as possible. Safety and avoiding further unhappiness from the thoughts of war are the reasons …

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img Photograph of Manzanar closing (ddr-csujad-47-351)

Photograph of Manzanar incarceration camp closing taken in front of the official closure notification, "This project officially closed November 21-1945, no admittance, except on business," and the entrance sign. Ralph P. Merritt is standing next to the closed sign with his dog Sandy. A large group of people surround him. See this object in the California …

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img Photograph of Manzanar closing (ddr-csujad-47-346)

Photograph of Manzanar incarceration camp closing taken in front of the official closure notification, "This project officially closed November 21-1945, no admittance, except on business," and the entrance sign. Ralph P. Merritt is standing in front, with a group of people behind him. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: …

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doc What happened at Manzanar (ddr-csujad-19-70)

This is an article from the magazine "Common Ground," volume III, no. 3, spring 1943, which discusses about the first violent outbreak at the Manzanar incarceration camp on the eve of the first anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: WRA_02-22_01

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-19-70/

doc Manzanar From Inside Out (ddr-csujad-19-2)

Text of address by Roy Nash, Director of the Manzanar War Relocation Project, given to the Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco, on July 31, 1942 for the purpose of "interpret[ing] the actuality of a War Relocation Center housing 10,000 evacuees" in view of perceptions of mistreatment of incarcerees in California. Sections of the speech include …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-19-2/

img Food service at Manzanar (ddr-csujad-52-28)

Caption pasted on reverse of image reads, "FIRST MEAL IN NEW ALIEN CAMP, Japanese evacuated from their Los Angeles homes line up to receive their first meal after their arrival Mar. 24, 1942, in the alien reception center at Manzanar." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: hslb_npc_0032

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-52-28/

img First arrivals at Manzanar (ddr-csujad-52-19)

A large group of people stand outside of barracks. The caption next to the image reads, "SPENDING THE WAR BEHIND BARBED WIRE--In this 1942 file photo, first arrivals at the Japanese evacuee community in Manzanar, California, are assigned to quarters in the barracks. 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were" (caption cut off). See this object in …

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img Guard station at Manzanar (ddr-csujad-52-1)

An abandoned guard station at the entrance to Manzanar. Notation on the back of the photo states "Manzanar - Concentration Camp - California, Where American Japanese were kept WWII." The caption printed in the Press-Telegram, in September of 1985, reads "Infamous Manzanar was the first and best-known of the U.S. internment camps where more than 100,000 …

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doc Manzanar from the Inside (ddr-densho-156-99)

Text of an address delivered before the Commonwealth Club of California by Roy Nash, Manzanar project director.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-99/

img [Photograph of Manzanar camp] (ddr-csujad-29-214)

Photograph of Manzanar camp. Photograph inscription: "Camp + Comm" and "K. Krater interview--1329." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P157

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-214/

img [Woman with Manzanar plaque] (ddr-csujad-29-154)

Photograph of a woman with a Manzanar plague. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P095

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-154/

img The Manzanar Cemetery Monument (ddr-manz-3-46)

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