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Collection Martha Shoaf Collection (ddr-manz-7)

The Martha Shoaf Collection is comprised of photographs from Martha Shoaf, a fourth grade teacher at the Manzanar concentration camp, California, during World War II. Materials include photographs of Shoaf's students and fellow teachers at Manzanar.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-7/

Collection CSU Fullerton Center for Oral and Public History Children's Village at Manzanar Oral History Project (ddr-csujad-30)

The Children's Village at Manzanar Oral History Project features oral histories with narrators who talk about their lives, pre and post World War II, but most specifically, about their experience at the Children's Village at Manzanar.

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doc Manzanar Free Press Vol. II No. 31 (October 1, 1942) (ddr-densho-125-75)

Selected article titles: "Beet Recruiting Nears Finish. Utah Farms Closed to Manzanar Labor" (p. 1), "Temporary Shop Finished by Crew" (p. 1), "Get Acquainted YWMA Tea Held" (p. 1), "Rumor Rears Its Head" (p. 1), "Cotton Workers in Difficult Beginning" (p. 1), "Murder-Suicide Case Finished" (p. 1), "Manzanar Constitution in Draft; Will be Presented to Public" …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-125-75/

doc Two memos regarding Manzanar concentration camp, California (ddr-densho-67-14)

The subject of these memos is the identification of suspected pro-Japanese individuals.

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doc "Vanguard Returns To Manzanar From Beet Fields" (ddr-densho-68-62)

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doc "Katayama Ill; Manzanar Women Named On P.T.A." (ddr-densho-68-59)

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doc "Manzanar Students Begin Work Under Poor Conditions" (ddr-densho-68-58)

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doc "Nagatas Leave Manzanar for Tule Lake Center" (ddr-densho-68-73)

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doc "Manzanar Grads Promise To Meet Their 'Challenge'" (ddr-densho-68-41)

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doc "Pneumonia Hits 'Grandpa' Koura At Camp Manzanar" (ddr-densho-68-33)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-68-33/

doc "Masako Nishimori Marries Sacramento Man At Manzanar" (ddr-densho-68-66)

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doc "32 Islanders At Manzanar In Camouflage Jobs" (ddr-densho-68-47)

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img Photograph of the apple orchard at Manzanar (ddr-csujad-47-155)

Photograph of the apple orchard at Manzanar incarceration camp. The foreground is cleared desert, with the background of the snow-covered Sierra Nevada. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ecm_merritt_0271

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-47-155/

img Photograph of the road outside of Manzanar (ddr-csujad-47-153)

Photograph of the road outside of Manzanar incarceration camp. A utility pole is next to the road and a barbed wire fence follows the road. The snow-covered Sierra Nevada is in the background. In the lower left corner is a tricycle. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ecm_merritt_0268

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-47-153/

img Photograph of Elaine Clary Stanley at Manzanar (ddr-csujad-47-177)

Photograph of Elaine Clary Stanley, a teacher at Manzanar, wearing a polka-dot dress at Manzanar incarceration camp. She is standing in front of one of the staff quarters with a fire extinguisher behind her left shoulder. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ecm_merritt_0303

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-47-177/

img Photograph of girls playing basketball at Manzanar (ddr-csujad-47-45)

Photograph of a girls basketball game at Manzanar incarceration camp. The ball is above the rim of the basketball net, just about to fall. In the background are barracks and the Inyo Mountains. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ecm_merritt_0076

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-47-45/

img Photograph of Ralph Merritt officially closing Manzanar (ddr-csujad-47-13)

Includes the sign, "This project officially closed November 21-1945 no admittance except on business." Description taken from original photo album, "Manzanar is now officially closed. Mr. Merritt addressing the staff that gathered at the gates of Manzanar to witness the departure of the last evacuee from the Center. November 21, 1945." See this object in the …

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img Photograph of the closing sign at Manzanar (ddr-csujad-47-334)

Photograph of the sign officially closing the Manzanar incarceration camp. "This project officially closed November 21-1945, no admittance, except on business." The official wooden entrance sign is behind it and the Sierra Nevada are in the background. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ecm_merritt_0493

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-47-334/

img Photograph of women holding infants at Manzanar (ddr-csujad-47-232)

Photograph of two women holding infants while sitting in front of a building at Manzanar incarceration camp. They are probably in the hospital garden. Both women are wearing jackets and the infants are swaddled in large white blankets. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ecm_merritt_0376

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-47-232/

img Photograph of women holding infants at Manzanar (ddr-csujad-47-233)

Photograph of two women holding infants while sitting in front of a building at Manzanar incarceration camp. They are probably in the hospital garden. Both women are wearing jackets and the infants are swaddled in large white blankets. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ecm_merritt_0377

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-47-233/

img Photograph of boys playing baseball at Manzanar (ddr-csujad-47-43)

Photograph of a group of boys playing baseball on an improvised baseball diamond in one of the firebreaks at Manzanar incarceration camp. A row of barracks can be seen in the background along with the Inyo Mountians. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ecm_merritt_0074

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img Photograph of an administrative building at Manzanar (ddr-csujad-47-158)

Photograph of a grassy field in front of staff housing at Manzanar incarceration camp. The snow-covered Sierra Nevada can be seen in the background. Two cars are visible in the middle right of the photograph. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ecm_merritt_0274

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-47-158/

img Three girls in their quarters at Manzanar (ddr-csujad-52-9)

Three young women in barracks at Manzanar. One sits at a desk, writing in a notebook. The other two look on, one with her hands on the back of the woman at the desk, the other bends at the waist to wash her hands in a white bowl. Caption on back of photograph reads, "Japanese Girls …

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img Three boys near barbed wire at Manzanar (ddr-csujad-52-26)

Three young boys standing behind barbed wire at Manzanar. Two of the boys have their hand on the wire. Snow capped mountains are visible in the background. Caption above image reads, "MIYATAKE DOCUMENTARY--This 1943 photo taken at California's Manzanar internment camp during World War II was taken by photographer Toyo Miyatake who was honored at the …

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img [One woman and three men at Manzanar] (ddr-csujad-29-311)

One woman and two men with a Manzanar National Park Service ranger. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P254

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-311/

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