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Collection Ansel Adams Collection (ddr-densho-93)

This collection is comprised of photographs from the Library of Congress's repository of photographs from the collection of photographer Ansel Adams. The photographs document life in the Manzanar concentration camp during 1943.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-93/

doc Testimony of Henry Suzeko Takayoshi (ddr-densho-67-276)

Written testimony of Henry Suzeko Takayoshi of Bainbridge Island, Washington. Incarcerated in Manzanar concentration camp, California, and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. This testimony was submitted for the CWRIC hearings in Seattle, Washington, September 9-11, 1981. Personal information excised by Densho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-67-276/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 105, No. 7 (September 11, 1987) (ddr-pc-59-32)

Selected article titles: "Manzanar All-Camp: Reunion Celebrates U.S. Constitution" (pp. 1-2), "Program Encourages Leadership for JACL Members" (pp. 1, 3), "The U.S. Constitution: An Ideal Not Matched in Deeds" (p. 5), and "Hiroshima's Album 'Go' Stalls" (pp. 7-8).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-59-32/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 81, No. 15 (October 10, 1975) (ddr-pc-47-40)

Selected article titles: "MDC Reparations Survey" (pp. 1, 3), "Sen. Inouye Explains Final Lesson to Be Learned from Watergate Trauma" (p. 1), "Editorials: A Battered Manzanar Plaque" (p. 2), and "Ye Editor's Desk: Other Thoughts on the Visit" (p. 2).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-47-40/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 123, No. 1 (July 5-18, 1996) (ddr-pc-68-13)

Selected article titles: "House Resources Committee Passes Manzanar Legislation" (p. 1), "The Ups and Downs of Leadership and Volunteerism" (p. 6), "The Barracks: They Tell a Powerful Story" (p. 7), and "Medals of Valor for a 442 Hero, Finally" (p. 12).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-68-13/

doc Topaz Times Vol. X No. 20 (March 9, 1945) (ddr-densho-142-388)

Selected article titles: "Hood River Restores Names of Nisei GI's" (p. 1), "A. Adams Presents New Photo Book on Manzanar Life" (p. 2), "Returnees Get Good Publicity on West Coast" (p. 4), "Pro and Anti Evacuees Newspapers Listed" (p. 6).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-142-388/

doc Daily Press Review, Vol. VII, No. 17 (ddr-densho-156-306)

Article titles: "Jap Center Under Martial Law..."; "Manzanar Riots"; "WRA and Land Use"; "Plan to Kill Elk in Park for Camp Japanese is Protested"; "Jap Camp Gets New Officers"; "Letters from the People"; "Evacuees Leave for U.S. Army School Monday."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-306/

doc Daily Press Review, Vol. VII, No. 9 (ddr-densho-156-298)

Article titles: "Manzanar Japs to Receive Old School Textbooks"; "Newell Talks Enlistment vs. Induction"; "Relocation Official Speaks to Altrusans"; "Soldiers Spend Furloughs at Heart Mountain"; "Cotton Crop Not Saved by Japanese"; "Items from Topaz"; "Japanese-American Couple Married"; "Letters From People."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-298/

img [Children's Village incarcerees wait at mess hall] (ddr-csujad-29-321)

Nineteen incarcerees wait for food at Children's Village in Manzanar. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P264

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-321/

doc Gidra, Vol. VI, No. 3 (March 1974) (ddr-densho-297-59)

Selected article titles: "Young Spirits" (p. 1), "What? A Dollar-Fifty for a Quart of Rice!" (p. 8), "With Balance in the Justice" (p. 10), "Fallout from the Energy Crisis" (p. 12), "Farewell to Manzanar: A Book Review" (p. 17).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-297-59/

doc Letter from Harry Gamble to Leon E. Panetta (ddr-densho-345-76)

Harry Gamble writes a follow-up letter to Congressman Leon Panetta about the designation of one of the ten internment camps as a National Historic Site. Gamble disagrees with Edwin Thompson's choice of Manzanar believing Tule Lake is the better choice.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-345-76/

vh Helen Mori Interview (ddr-manz-1-92)

Nisei female. Born November 11, 1933, in Long Beach, California. Grew up in the Gardena area of Los Angeles. During World War II, was removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. After leaving camp, returned to the Los Angeles area.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-1-92/

vh Susan Brown Phelps Interview (ddr-manz-1-147)

White female. Born March 1, 1941, in Bishop, California. During World War II, father was the assistant project director at the Manzanar concentration camp, California. After the war, lived and worked in various places before eventually returning to Inyo County, California.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-1-147/

vh Miyoko Sakai Nagai Interview (ddr-manz-1-120)

Nisei female. Born October 4, 1925, in San Diego, California. Grew up in Los Feliz, California, where family ran a successful flower shop. During World War II, removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. After leaving camp, eventually returned to California.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-1-120/

vh Gary Yamagiwa Interview (ddr-chi-1-7)

Sansei male. Born May 8, 1953, in Chicago, Illinois. Parents were Nisei, sent to the concentration camps at Poston, Arizona, Manzanar and Tule Lake, California, during World War II. After leaving camp, resettled in Chicago, where Gary was born and raised.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-chi-1-7/

vh Tats Kojima Interview (ddr-densho-1001-10)

Nisei male. Born 1923 in Bainbridge Island, Washington. Age 18 when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, was removed with family to Manzanar concentration camp, California. Later transferred to the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Became an auto mechanic after World War II.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1001-10/

vh Eiko Shibayama Interview (ddr-densho-1001-14)

Nisei female. Born 1929 in Bainbridge Island, Washington. Grew up helping on family's farm before being removed to Manzanar concentration camp, California, during World War II. Transferred with family to Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho, and eventually returned to Bainbridge Island.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1001-14/

doc Letter to a Nisei man from his sister (ddr-densho-153-139)

Excerpt: "I'm awfully sorry I made you mad as a hornet by telling you about that rumor but I had to let you know what really was going around." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, possibly to Camp Robinson, Arkansas.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-153-139/

doc Letter to a Nisei man from his sister (ddr-densho-153-33)

Excerpt: "What do you know, well I'm going to be a A9 next Monday & I sure am glad this semesters over & next semester im going to have to study real hard." Sent from Manzanar concentration camp, California, to Chicago, Illinois.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-153-33/

doc My future (ddr-csujad-48-4)

Term paper by Alice Muraoka for period VII Social Problems class taught by Mr. Harry Bentley Wells, a teacher at Manzanar High School. Alice describes her desire to become a secretary and to work in an office. She was able to finish typing and shorthand coursework but the evacuation (as she calls it) cut short the …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-48-4/

doc Daily Press Review, Vol. VII, No. 10 (ddr-densho-156-299)

Article titles: "Manzanar Relocation Chief Named"; "Aliens Employed in Shipyards"; "Conflicts in Relocation Camps"; "Japs Settle Row at Evacuee Camp"; "Mexicans Fill California Jobs"; "Classes in Japanese"; "Probation for Seattle Jap"; "No Pickers"; "Activities of Heart Mountain Wyoming"; "Notes on Gila River Project."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-299/

[Group photograph of former Manzanar incarceree, students, and Arthur A. Hansen at the Cal State Fullerton's Center for Oral and Public History (COPH)] (ddr-csujad-29-313)

img [Group photograph of former Manzanar incarceree, students, and Arthur A. Hansen at the Cal State Fullerton's Center for Oral and Public History (COPH)] (ddr-csujad-29-313)

Students, former Manzanar incarceree (presumably) and Arthur A. Hansen at COPH. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P256

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-313/

img [View from outside the Children's Village] (ddr-csujad-29-353)

Incarcerees and caretakers behind the fence of the Children's Village in Manzanar. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P298

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-353/

img [Caretakers and incarcerees at Children's Village] (ddr-csujad-29-333)

Four caretakers and four children at the Children's Village in Manzanar. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P276

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-333/

doc Letter from Harry Gamble to Edwin C. Bearss (ddr-densho-345-75)

Harry Gamble writes to Edwin Bearss, Chief Historian of the National Park Service, concerning the choice of internment camp to be designated a National Historic Landmark. Gamble believes that Tule Lake concentration camp at Newell, California is the better choice over Manzanar.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-345-75/

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