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

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-68-68/

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 …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-48-27/

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: …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-47-346/

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)

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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 …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-52-19/

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 …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-52-1/

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/