3106 items
3106 items
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Casualty reports from Manzanar riot (ddr-densho-122-854)
Names and personal information redacted
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Manzanar Free Press Collection (ddr-densho-125)
This collection consists of the Manzanar Free Press, a newspaper published by the inmates at the Manzanar concentration camp, California. The paper was published from 1942 until 1945.
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Yotsu Iwata Collection (ddr-densho-387)
Collection consists of photograph of collector, her Manzanar Mass Hall card, two work assignments for mess halls at Manzanar, and three booklets titled "Gathas and Service" published and distributed by the Manzanar Buddhist Church.
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Library (ddr-densho-151-434)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. One of the barrack buildings houses the library for evacuees at this War Relocation Authority center. The librarian is a college graduate of Japanese ancestry who employs modern methods in library procedure.
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Japanese American reading in library (ddr-densho-151-436)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. A corner in the library at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. This section contains books in the Japanese lanuage, most of which are translations of English classics.
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Japanese Americans playing baseball (ddr-densho-151-394)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Baseball players in a huddle. This game is very popular with 80 teams having been formed to date. Most of the playing is done in the wide firebreak between blocks of barracks.
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Pregnant Japanese American visiting doctor (ddr-densho-151-418)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Young expectant mother (center) receives check-up from her doctor (left) in the medical clinic, now housed in a temporary building, at this War Relocation Authority Center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
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Library at Manzanar, Miss Matsuoka (librarian), Miss Ishida's class (ddr-csujad-29-194)
Photograph of librarian Miss Matsuoka reads to Miss Ishida's class at Manzanar. Photograph inscription: "Camp + Comm;" "Library at Manzanar;" "1944;" "Miss Matsuoka (librarian);" "Miss Ishida's Class;" "School at Manzanar;" "D. Cragen, Interview--O.H. 1347." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P136
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Stove vent in ceiling of military police housing (ddr-densho-345-140)
A series of photographs taken by Harry Gamble and his team at Manzanar and Tule Lake concentration camps as part of their research. This research was then used to lobby for Tule Lake and not Manzanar be the camp to be designated a National Historic Landmark. The setting of the military police housing was reconstructed at …
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Arthur Ogami Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-154-10)
Memories of the bus trip from Burbank, California, to Manzanar concentration camp, California: a pit stop in the desert
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Information Roundup Vol. III, No. 22 (ddr-densho-156-368)
Section titles: "Movements to Jerome Announced"; "Evacuees Leave for Beet Fields"; "Nash Leaves Manzanar"; "More Vegetables Shipped from Tule"; "Household Goods Go to Manzanar"; "Schools Open at Tule Lake"; "Paper Published at Gila River"; "Photography Section to Move to Denver."
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Gidra, Vol. V, No. 5 (May 1973) (ddr-densho-297-49)
Selected article titles: "Manzanar" (p. 4), "From Manzanar to Wounded Knee" (p. 7), "Hanami: a Little Bit of Everything" (p. 10), "A Separate Peace: War" (p. 12), "Food Prices: Let Them Eat Less or China: Food for Everyone" (p. 14).
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Japanese Americans in makeshift classroom (ddr-densho-151-368)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. An elementary school with voluntary attendance has been established with volunteer teachers, most of whom are college graduates. These young evacuees are eager to learn and do not mind the lack of equipment.
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Young Japanese Americans sitting in shade (ddr-densho-151-405)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Young evacuee girls gather in the shade of their barrack apartment and practice the songs they learned in school prior to evacuation to this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
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Guayule plants (ddr-densho-151-382)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Guayule beds in the lath house at this War Relocation Authority center. These plants are year-old seedlings from the Salinas experiment station which are ready to be transplanted into the open ground.
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Japanese Americans studying in classroom (ddr-densho-151-367)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. An elementary school with voluntary attendance has been established with volunteer evacuee teachers, most of whom are college graduates. No school equipment is as yet obtainable and available tables and benches are used.
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Japanese Americans watching baseball (ddr-densho-151-395)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry are enjoying a baseball game at this War Relocation Authority center. 80 teams having been organized to date with most of the playing is done between the barrack blocks.
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Temporary hospital barracks (ddr-densho-151-70)
Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Emergency hospital housed in temporary quarters at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancesrty. The modern new hospital is almost ready for occupancy as shown in Photo C-851.
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Japanese Americans in front of camp newspaper office (ddr-densho-93-2)
Original Ansel Adams caption: Roy Takeno (Editor) and group reading Manzanar paper in front of office, Yuichi Harata, Nabuo Samamura, Manzanar Relocation Center, California. (Note: original caption contains misspellings. "Harata" should be, "Hirata", and "Nabuo Samamura" should be, "Nobuo Sawamura".)
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Letter from David Miyamoto to John Bonomi (ddr-janm-21-1)
A letter from David Miyamoto, Manzanar Relocation Center, Ca., to John Bonomi of Los Angeles, dated May 7, 1942. Mr. Bonomi was a drug salesman, still providing sales support to his former clients from the Little Tokyo area to Manzanar.