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Collection CSU Dominguez Hills Sumi Family Manzanar Photographs (ddr-csujad-41)

The Sumi Family Manzanar Photograph includes one photograph of the Sumi family at the Manzanar incarceration camp.

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img Added entrance to Military Police office at Tule Lake (ddr-densho-345-122)

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. This entrance was added along the northern boundary of camp. …

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img Mess hall (ddr-densho-151-433)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Messhall #16 at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. An evacuee of 290 persons are fed three meals a day in each messhall, and all work is done by the evacuees themselves.

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img Hospital bed near latrine (ddr-densho-151-475)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Hospital latrines, for patients, between the barracks, which serve temporarily as wards. For the first three months of occupancy medical facilities have been meager but the new hospital fully equipped, is almost ready for occupancy.

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img Japanese Americans working in field (ddr-densho-151-445)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Ichiro Okumura, 22 (left), from Venice, California and Ben Iguchi, 20 from Sangus, California, thin young plants in a two-acre field of white radishes at the relocation center. High sierras are shown in the background.

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img Japanese American working in garden (ddr-densho-151-372)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuee in her "hobby garden" which rates highest of all the garden plots at this War Relocation Authority center. Vegetables for their own use are grown in plots 10 x 50 feet between rows of barracks.

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img Japanese Americans watching baseball game (ddr-densho-151-392)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuees watching a baseball game at this War Relocation Authority center. This is a very popular recreation with 80 teams having been formed throughout the Center. Most of the playing is done between the barrack blocks.

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vh Hanako Hoshiyama Fukumoto Interview (ddr-manz-1-136)

Nisei female. Born 1923 in Montebello, California. Lived in several places in Southern California, where father was a flower grower. During World War II, removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. Married and had a child in camp. Left Manzanar for Chicago, Illinois.

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img Boy and girl standing on a lawn (ddr-manz-10-75)

The boy on the right is Owen K. Kato, the first baby boy born at Manzanar.

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doc Pre-School Education in Manzanar Report (ddr-densho-402-6)

Description of preschool education in Manzanar including school housing, schedule, routine, parent organizations, teachers, and advantages.

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doc Advice of Personnel Action (ddr-densho-402-4)

This document is about Marie A. Prichett's appointment as secondary school teacher at Manzanar in 1944.

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img High school recess (ddr-densho-93-40)

Original Ansel Adams caption: High school recess period, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.

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img Japanese Americans burning leaves (ddr-densho-93-30)

Original Ansel Adams caption: Burning leaves, autumn dawn, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.

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img Japanese Americans sewing (ddr-densho-93-7)

Original Ansel Adams caption: Sumiko Shigematsu, foreman of power sewing machine girls, Manzanar Relocation Center, California.

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img Camp chapel (ddr-densho-93-42)

Original Ansel Adams caption: Entrance, Catholic chapel (V), Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.

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doc Postcard to two Nisei brothers from their sister (ddr-densho-153-181)

Excerpt: "We received your letter and picture." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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doc Postcard to a Nisei man from his sister (ddr-densho-153-191)

Excerpt: "Hello there. Just received your letter." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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doc Letter to a Nisei man from his sister (ddr-densho-153-79)

Excerpt: "Thank you for the swell letter." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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doc Letter to two Nisei brothers from their sister (ddr-densho-153-118)

Excerpt: "Thanks a lot for writing, Joe." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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doc Letter to two Nisei brothers their sister (ddr-densho-153-120)

Excerpt: "How are you? Fine, I hope." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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doc Postcard to a Nisei man from his sister (ddr-densho-153-204)

Excerpt: "I'm still busy with school." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Camp Robinson, Arkansas.

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doc Letter to a Nisei man from his sister (ddr-densho-153-75)

Excerpt: "Today I received the two postcards." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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doc Postcard to two Nisei brothers from their sister (ddr-densho-153-192)

Excerpt: "Hope you're okay. We're all fine." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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doc Postcard to a Nisei man from his father (ddr-densho-153-154)

Excerpt: "Whew! Hot! since day before yesterday." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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doc Postcard to two Nisei brothers from their father (ddr-densho-153-183)

Excerpt: "How are you spending day life?" Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

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