3111 items
3111 items
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Letter to a Nisei man from his sister (ddr-densho-153-116)
Excerpt: "Got you letter today and the material which Towru sent came yesterday." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.
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Letter to two Nisei brothers from their sister (ddr-densho-153-102)
Excerpt: "Sorry I haven't been writing to you but I really was busy." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.
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Postcard to two Nisei brothers from their mother (ddr-densho-153-177)
Excerpt: "I received Joe's long letter and was very much interested with it." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.
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Letter to a Nisei man from his mother (ddr-densho-153-213)
Excerpt: "I jast came home from English school, and found your Easter Card." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.
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Camp construction (ddr-densho-37-409)
Original WRA caption: Manzanar, California. Construction of barrack apartments for evacuees of Japanese ancestry has commenced at this War Relocation Authority Center.
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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.
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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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CSU Dominguez Hills Manzanar Photo Album (ddr-csujad-36)
The Manzanar Photo Album contains photographs and newspaper clippings about the Manzanar incarceration camp. Photographs include images of children, barracks, funerals, along with two additional photos from a welcome party for Dr. Furukochi at the Koyasan Betsuin in Los Angeles and a photograph of the Santa Fe Japanese Baseball Team. The newspaper clippings in the collection …
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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