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img Rocks lining bed (ddr-densho-377-2193)

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img House with rock garden (ddr-densho-377-2432)

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img Japanese American children (ddr-densho-37-613)

Original WRA caption: Jerome Relocation Center, Dermott, Arkansas. Young children at Jerome Relocation Center.

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img Children outside barracks (ddr-densho-37-612)

Original WRA caption: Jerome Relocation Center, Dermott, Arkansas. Young children at Jerome Relocation Center.

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img Grade school children (ddr-densho-37-377)

Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Recess in grade school.

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img Military Police barracks (ddr-densho-37-801)

Original WRA caption: Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. The quarters of the Military Police at the entrance to the Jerome Center are practically deserted as most of the gurards have been returned to their home base at Monticello, Arkansas, and only a few remainded for the final closing operations.

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img Packing mess hall dishes (ddr-densho-37-620)

Original WRA caption: Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. Dishes from the center's thirty-three mess halls were carefully packed in straw and put in G.I. cans ready for shipment. Angelo Girardo of the Denver Office is shown supervising the work.

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img Military Police barracks (ddr-densho-37-800)

Original WRA caption: Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. "Old Glory" is lowered for the last time over the Military Police barracks at the Jerome Center. Corporal Thomas Savage stands at attention as the emblem begins its descent. As most of the Military Guards had returned to their base at Monticello, Arkansas, formal retreat …

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img Harvesting mustard (ddr-densho-37-528)

Original WRA caption: Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. Residents of the Rohwer Relocation Center harvest a truck load of mustard on the extensive acreage they have helped cultivate near-by.

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img Grade school children (ddr-densho-37-376)

Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Recess in grade school.

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img Japanese American farm workers (ddr-densho-37-379)

Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. 10:30 A.M. farm workers' siesta.

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img Leaving camp (ddr-densho-37-614)

Original WRA caption: Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. Jerome residents who are to be sent to the Granada Center wait in trucks to entrain.

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img Camp cemetery (ddr-densho-37-527)

Original WRA caption: Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. Rohwer maintains it's own cemetery at the edge of the center. Permanent tombstones and monuments are constructed by the residents. The plot is landscaped and cared for by the evacuees. Comparatively few are buried here as cremation is the rule among Janpanese Americans.

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img Japanese Americans harvesting mustard (ddr-densho-37-408)

Original WRA caption: Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. One of many truck loads of mustard being harvested by the residents of the Rohwer Relocation Center on the land cultivated by the evacuees.

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img Bombing of Pearl Harbor (ddr-densho-37-769)

Original caption: Naval photograph documenting the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii which initiated US participation in World War II. Navy's caption: Colors flying from USS WEST VIRGINIA(left) and USS ARIZONA (right) aflame, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of Dec. 7, 1941., 12/07/1941

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img Japanese Americans harvesting cabbages (ddr-densho-37-807)

Original WRA caption: Jerome Relocation Center, Dermott, Arkansas. Cutting cabbages which have been left for winter harvest.

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img U.S.O. show (ddr-densho-37-625)

Original WRA caption: Jerome Relocation Center, Dermott, Arkansas. First U.S.O. [United Services Organizations] show held in the M.P.P.X. [Military Police Post Exchange].

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img Japanese Americans behind a fence (ddr-densho-37-799)

Original WRA caption: Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. Evacuees still remaining in the Jerome Center wave to their friends on the train from behind the wire fence surrounding the camp. On subsequent departures they were allowed to pass through the gate and say their goodbyes at close range.

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img Camp landscaping (ddr-densho-37-532)

Original WRA caption: Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. In contrast to most of the relocation center sites, many of the blocks in the Rohwer Center are shaded by trees. The residents have done much to make their tar paper barracks more livable by the planting of flowers and vegetable gardens and the building of rustic walks …

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img Hand grenade drill (ddr-densho-37-754)

Original WRA caption: Hand grenade drill. A company of Japanese-American soldiers are here shown throwing hand grenades into an open trench. The 442nd combat team at Camp Shelby is composed entirely of Americans of Japanese descent who volunteered for service in the armed forces. This unit of approximately 8000 men is undergoing intensive training in all …

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img Camp entrance (ddr-densho-37-798)

Original WRA caption: Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. Last glimpse of the Jerome Center as residents leave by train to take up their residents at another center.

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img Bombing of Pearl Harbor (ddr-densho-37-768)

Original caption: Naval photograph documenting the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii which initiated US participation in World War II. Navy's caption: The terrific explosion of the destroyer USS SHAW when her magazine exploded after being bombed by Japanese aircraft in the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, 12/07/1941

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img Japanese American tending a flower garden (ddr-densho-37-406)

Original WRA caption: Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. The decorative flower gardens at the approach to the center's administrative buildings was tended up the last days by any flower lover who still remained in the center. Its fate after the final closing date was uncertain.

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