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o        Description: This page contains information about An adobe house on the Mountain Road near Kaysville, Utah. Several farm survey records were obtained in this district, and these photographs were taken with the object of illustrating some features that are common to the area. Salt Lake Survey. Aug. 24-28, 1915. L. A. M.

·         Abandoned buildings

o        Description: This page contains information about Sacramento, California. Across the road from Louis' Camp.

·         Abandoned buildings

o        Description: This page contains information about [Abandoned stone building.]

·         Abandoned buildings / Adobe buildings / Shadows

o        Description: This page contains information about Taos County, New Mexico. The semi-abstract patterns of details of abandoned adobe buildings that have weathered away are part of the visual character of Taos County.

·         Abandoned buildings / Adobe buildings / Doors & doorways

o        Description: This page contains information about Taos County, New Mexico. The semi-abstract patterns of details of abandoned adobe buildings that have weathered away are part of the visual character of Taos County.

·         Abandoned buildings / Camps / Administrative buildings / Barracks

o        Description: This page contains information about A narrative report on Camp DG-35, Milford, Utah.

·         Abandoned buildings / Camps / Barracks

o        Description: This page contains information about A narrative report on Camp DG-35, Milford, Utah.

·         Abandoned buildings / Churches / Ruins

o        Description: This page contains information about With the U. S. Troops in Mexico. CATHOLIC CHURCH ERECTED IN 1542.

·         Abandoned buildings / Farmhouses

o        Description: This page contains information about Haskell County, Kansas. There are abandoned houses all over this and neighboring counties.... The house shown...has been deserted for several years, but the land that surrounds it is still in use. Just now it is in Summer fallow; last season it was planted to maize.

·         Abandoned buildings / Farmhouses / Adobe buildings / Windmills / Agricultural machinery & implements

o        Description: This page contains information about Haskell County, Kansas. There are abandoned houses all over this and neighboring counties.... The house...is an adobe house, one of several in the region. Buildings like this one disintegrate very fast once they are abandoned.

·         Abandoned buildings / Farmhouses / Windmills

o        Description: This page contains information about Haskell County, Kansas. There are abandoned houses all over this and neighboring counties.

·         Abandoned buildings / Farmhouses / Windmills / Farms

o        Description: This page contains information about Haskell County, Kansas. There are abandoned houses all over this and neighboring counties....The house...stands near the site of old Santa Fe, a village which has literally been moved away, leaving absolutely no trace.

·         Abandoned buildings / Fences / Ruins

o        Description: This page contains information about With the American troops in Mexico. A house destroyed by Villistas on their flight from Columbus after the raid, at Colonia Dublan.

·         Abandoned buildings / Forts & fortifications

o        Description: This page contains information about Abandoned post of Fort Hancock, Texas.

·         Abandoned buildings / Forts & fortifications / Automobiles

o        Description: This page contains information about Abandoned post of Fort Hancock, Texas.

·         Abandoned buildings / Ghost towns / Ruins

o        Description: This page contains information about With the American Troops in Mexico. A house destroyed by the Villistas on their flight from Columbus, after the raid, at Colonia Dublan.

·         Abandoned buildings / Houses / Interiors

o        Description: This page contains information about Interior of an old “communal“ or council house in Wrangell, Alaska, ; once the home of a Thlinget chief.

·         Abandoned buildings / Military facilities

o        Description: This page contains information about Abandoned post of Fort Hancock, Texas.

·         Abandoned buildings / Military facilities

o        Description: This page contains information about Fort Bliss, Texas. Old fort near Franklin, Texas.

·         Abandoned buildings / Missions / Mountains

o        Description: This page contains information about Old decaying building, Metlakahtla, Alaska.

·         Abandoned buildings / Roads

o        Description: This page contains information about “Abandoned general store and other log buildings“

·         Abandoned buildings / Ruins

o        Description: This page contains information about With the U. S. Troops in Mexico. July 1916 Ramos Ranch--on the right end shows an old fort used by the different bandits in fighting off the enemy visitors.

·         Abandoned buildings / Ruins

o        Description: This page contains information about With the American Forces in Mexico. A Mormon's House destroyed by the Villastas on their flight from Columbus, after the raid. The house is situated in Colonia Dublan, Mexico.

·         Abandoned buildings / Windows

o        Description: This page contains information about Taos County, New Mexico. The semi-abstract patterns of details of abandoned adobe buildings that have weathered away are part of the visual character of Taos County.

·         Acorn cache / Mono / Native Americans / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Photograph with text of acorn cache of the Mono Indians, California. This is from a survey report of Fresno and Madera counties by L.D. Creel.

·         Acorn caches / Native Americans / Children / Cookery / Aged persons

o        Description: This page contains information about Photographs, with captions, of acorn cache and Mary Longfellow pounding acorns at Tuolumne reservation, Tuolumne County, California, from “Old Age Security Survey, April 1 to June 30, 1937, Made by Mrs. Richard Codman, Social Worker, Sacramento Indian Agency, Sacramento, Calif.“

·         Acorn caches / Women / Native Americans

o        Description: This page contains information about Photograph with text of acorn caches of Mrs. Henry Towatt, California. This is from a survey report of Fresno and Madera counties by L.D. Creel.

·         Actresses / Motion pictures / Forest reserves

o        Description: This page contains information about Loretta Young Watching a Scene in “The Call of The Wild“, Mount Baker National Forest, 1935.

·         Administration buildings / Closing preparations / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. The administration building at the Jerome Center are ablaze with lights as an augmented crew handling the evacuation details works far into the night.

·         Administration buildings / Closing preparations / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women / Rations

o        Description: This page contains information about Colorado River Relocation Center, Poston, Arizona. Evacuees waiting in line inside the administration building. These lines form every day in front of the finance office because each evacuee on leaving receives a cash grant of $25.00. Although there are no residents left in Camps II and III at the Colorado River Relocation Center, there are still about 3,000 residents planning to leave Unit I before the first of December.

·         Administration buildings / Departures / Trucks / Gardens / Landscaping / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. Scene before the administration building as truck loads of Jerome residents assembled to boarding the train for the Gila River Center. In the foreground are the formal flower beds at the center's entrance.

·         Administration buildings / Landscaping / Government facilities

o        Description: This page contains information about “Government Administration Building and grounds as seen from the roof of the school building, Boulder City. View looking north.“

·         Administrative agencies

o        Description: This page contains information about Federal Public Works Administration (PWA) building. Rapid City, South Dakota.

·         Administrative agencies / Administrative agents / Project directors / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. Paul A. Taylor, Project Director and Administrative Staff. Left to right: Paul A. Taylor, Project Director; Guy B. Smith, Chief Public Works Division, W. O. Melton, Assistant Project Director; A. G. Thompson, Superintendent of Education; W. H. Ballard, Chief, Agriculture Division John L. McCormick, Chief Employment & Housing Div; O. L. Hays, Chief, Transportation & Supply Division; James H. Wells, Administrative Officer.

·         Administrative agencies / Administrative agents / Project directors / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. Paul A. Taylor, Project Director and Administrative Staff. Left to right: Paul A. Taylor, Project Director; Guy B. Smith, Chief Public Works Division, W. O. Melton, Ass'istant Project Director; A. G. Thompson, Superintendent of Education; W. H. Ballard, Chief, Agriculture Division John L. McCormick, Chief Employment & Housing Div; O. L. Hays, Chief, Transportation & Supply Division.; James H. Wells, Administrative Officer.

·         Administrative agencies / Military headquarters / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. A view of the administrative building looking towards the military police headquarters.

·         Administrative agencies / Office workers / Assistance / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. The evacuees grouped around this table are part of the Welfare Department.

·         Administrative agencies / Office workers / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Japanese-Americans / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. An interior view of the Office Service Section headed by J. S. Jancock.

·         Administrative agencies / Office workers / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women / Japanese-Americans

o        Description: This page contains information about Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. D. J. Hudson, Steward and R. R. Richmond, Assistant Steward and the employees of the Mess Section.

·         Administrative agencies / Office workers / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about erome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. An interior view of the Personnel Records Section headed by Mrs. Nancy Dameran.

·         Administrative agencies / Office workers / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. The property control section headed by F. G. Merrifield, Director and his Assistant Property Officer Mrs. Helen S. Walton.

·         Administrative agencies / Offices / Employment agencies / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. W.C. Love, Placement Officer, showing assignment desks.

·         Administrative agencies / Offices / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Japanese-Americans / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. A view of the Social Services Office Section.

·         Administrative agencies / Offices / Office workers / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. A view showing the Housing Department at this relocation center. Left to right, Virginia Shilby, secretary, John H. Tucker, Housing Agent.

·         Administrative agencies / Project directors / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. Paul A. Taylor, Project Director and W. O. Melton, Assistant Project Director (right).

·         Administrative agents / Military officers / Recruiting & enlistment / Military service / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. Center Director Ray Johnston, right, congratulates George Kiwashima on his voluntary enlistment in the United States Army, while Captain John Holbrook and two other volunteers look on.

·         Administrative Agents / Office workers / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Topaz, Utah. Gilbert L. Niesse, Administrative Officer, is shown dictating to his evacuee secretary, Viola Imai.

·         Administrative agents / Offices / Project directors / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. Ray D. Johnson, Project Director, in conference with the staff.

·         Administrative agents / Teachers / Dormitories / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Future caucasian teachers and administrative staff. Single dormitory wings are provided for the single people. This group of administrative workers and teachers gather for a bit of relaxation after a busy day.

·         Administrative agents / Women / Dining tables / Eating & drinking / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Children

o        Description: This page contains information about Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. In his barracks home at Block 7 - 21, Bill Hosokawa and his wife Alice serves oyster stew in an evening's visit with the members of the War Relocation Authority appointed personnel. Left to right is Julona Steinheider, High School Mathematics Teacher; Margaret Jensen, Center Librarian; Vaughn Mechau, Reports Officer; Bill, his son Mike and his wife, Alice.

·         Administrative buildings / Flags / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Gila River Relocation Center, Rivers, Arizona. Canal Administration Building.

·         Administrative buildings / Housing / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. “C“ Section, Appointed Personnel Quarters at Amache.

·         Administrative buildings / Housing / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Gila River Relocation Center, Rivers, Arizona. Canal Staff Housing Quarters.

·         Administrative buildings / Housing / Snow / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. The administrative living quarters, December, 1943. Note the chimneys coming out of the windows!

·         Administrative buildings / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Gila River Relocation Center, Rivers, Arizona. Side view of Butte Administration Building.

·         Administrative buildings / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Children

o        Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. A view in back of the administrative area.

·         Administrative buildings / Photographs / Closing preparations / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. C. Kimi views the enlarged photos of evacuees and hostels on the west coast which line the hallway of the main Administration Building, Poston, Arizona. Although there are no residents left in Camps II and III at the Colorado River Relocation Center, there are still about 3,000 residents planning to leave Unit I before the first of December.

·         Administrative buildings / Photographs / Closing preparations / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. Rose Yamada and Mitsuye Ohye look wistfully at War Relocation Authority photographs of Postonites who have successfully relocated on the outside. These pictures are tacked up on the walls of the administration building. Although there are no residents left in Camps I and III at the Colorado River Relocation Center, there are still about 3,000 residents planningg to leave Unit I before the first of December.

·         Administrative buildings / Photographs / Closing preparations / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. Relocation Advisor, Edith Mitrocsak, discusses relocation plans with Yuki Masutani who hopes to leave Poston soon. The relocation advisors are busy every day trying to help families and indivuduals solve problems of housing and jobs before they leave the center. Although there are no residents left in Camps II and III at the Colorado River Relocation Center, there are still about 3,000 residents planning to leave Unit I before the first of December.

·         Adobe buildings

o        Description: This page contains information about Mexican Ranch, Santa Cruz Calley near Canoa. Mar. 18 '03. D. G.

·         Adobe buildings

o        Description: This page contains information about Taos County, New Mexico. Harwood Foundation, Taos.

·         Adobe buildings / Abandoned buildings / Doors & doorways

o        Description: This page contains information about El Cerrito, San Miguel County, New Mexico. Part of a very old wall made entirely of adobe. The bricks have melted and most of the beams have fallen out.

·         Adobe buildings / Abandoned buildings / Doors & doorways / Shadows

o        Description: This page contains information about Taos County, New Mexico. The semi-abstract patterns of details of abandoned adobe buildings that have weathered away are part of the visual character of Taos County.

·         Adobe buildings / Building construction / Government work camps

o        Description: This page contains information about CCC camp adobe building under construction

·         Adobe buildings / Carts & wagons

o        Description: This page contains information about Calliahan Ranch near Tucson, Ariz. Barley in foreground. March 15, 1903. D.G.

·         Adobe Buildings / Farmhouses / Farms

o        Description: This page contains information about Mexican Ranch. Tuscon Ariz. April 1901. Griffiths.

·         Adobe buildings / Houses

o        Description: This page contains information about Ranch Mexican. Tucson, Ariz. Nov. 1900. D. G.

·         Adobe buildings / Houses / Roofs

o        Description: This page contains information about El Cerrito, San Miguel County, New Mexico. Buildings are of many different shapes and sizes. Notice how many of them have pitched roofs instead of the original flat ones. Almost all the walls are made of stone with adobe masonry and are usually coated with adobe plaster. However, some of the oldest houses (which are still in use today) were built entirely of adobe bricks. All in all, these homes are neat and in fairly good repair.

·         Adobe buildings / Houses / Abandoned buildings / Expeditions & surveys / Expedition photographs

o        Description: This page contains information about Green River Station, U.P. Railroad, Wyoming. Ruins of adobe houses (1871) abandoned when terminus of construction work was moved on a year or so before. Beaman photo, 1871. Old nos. 253, 274, 429.

·         Adobe Buildings / Houses / Children

o        Description: This page contains information about With the U.S. Troops in Mexico. Native women of Casas Grandes.

·         Adobe buildings / Houses / Children / Fences

o        Description: This page contains information about El Cerrito, San Miguel County, New Mexico. Buildings are of many different shapes and sizes. Notice how many of them have pitched roofs instead of the original flat ones. Almost all the walls are made of stone with adobe masonry and are usually coated with adobe plaster. However, some of the oldest houses (which are still in use today) were built entirely of adobe bricks. Notice that the houses (which face on the plaza) have a sort of terrace in front of them bounded by a wire fence. All in all, these homes are neat and in fairly good repair.

·         Adobe buildings / Houses / Fences / Doors & doorways

o        Description: This page contains information about El Cerrito, San Miguel County, New Mexico. Buildings are of many different shapes and sizes. Notice how many of them have pitched roofs instead of the original flat ones. Almost all the walls are made of stone with adobe masonry and are usually coated with adobe plaster. However, some of the oldest houses (which are still in use today) were built entirely of adobe bricks. All in all, these homes are neat and in fairly good repair.

·         Adobe buildings / Houses / Fences / Roofs

o        Description: This page contains information about El Cerrito, San Miguel County, New Mexico. Buildings are of many different shapes and sizes. Notice how many of them have pitched roofs instead of the original flat ones. Almost all the walls are made of stone with adobe masonry and are usually coated with adobe plaster. However, some of the oldest houses (which are still in use today) were built entirely of adobe bricks. All in all, these homes are neat and in fairly good repair.

·         Adobe buildings / Houses / Horses / Children / Terraces / Fences

o        Description: This page contains information about El Cerrito, San Miguel County, New Mexico. Buildings are of many different shapes and sizes. Notice how many of them have pitched roofs instead of the original flat ones. Almost all the walls are made of stone with adobe masonry and are usually coated with adobe plaster. However, some of the oldest houses (which are still in use today) were built entirely of adobe bricks. Notice that the houses (which face on the plaza) have a sort of terrace in front of them bounded by a wire fence. All in all, these homes are neat and in fairly good repair.

·         Adobe buildings / Houses / Roofs

o        Description: This page contains information about El Cerrito, San Miguel County, New Mexico. Buildings are of many different shapes and sizes. Notice how many of them have pitched roofs instead of the original flat ones. Almost all the walls are made of stone with adobe masonry and are usually coated with adobe plaster. However, some of the oldest houses (which are still in use today) were built entirely of adobe bricks. All in all, these homes are neat and in fairly good repair.

·         Adobe buildings / Houses / Roofs / Girls / Children / Carriages & coaches

o        Description: This page contains information about El Cerrito, San Miguel County, New Mexico. Buildings are of many different shapes and sizes. Notice how many of them have pitched roofs instead of the original flat ones. Almost all the walls are made of stone with adobe masonry and are usually coated with adobe plaster. However, some of the oldest houses (which are still in use today) were built entirely of adobe bricks. All in all, these homes are neat and in fairly good repair.

·         Adobe buildings / Lakes & ponds / National landmarks

o        Description: This page contains information about Full side view of adobe house with water in foreground, “Acoma Pueblo [National Historic Landmark, New Mexico].“

·         Adobe buildings / Lakes & ponds / National landmarks

o        Description: This page contains information about Full side view of adobe house with water in foreground, nearly identical to item NWDNS-79-AA-A01, “Acoma Pueblo [National Historic Landmark, New Mexico].“

·         Adobe buildings / Lakes & ponds / National landmarks

o        Description: This page contains information about Side view of adobe house with water in foreground,“ Acoma Pueblo [National Historic Landmark, New Mexico].“

·         Adobe buildings / Military facilities

o        Description: This page contains information about Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Company quarters, looking toward Sutler's store.

·         Adobe buildings / Military facilities

o        Description: This page contains information about N/A

·         Adobe buildings / Military facilities

o        Description: This page contains information about Inside view of the O.K. Corrall at Tombstone, Arizona.

·         Adobe buildings / National landmarks

o        Description: This page contains information about Looking across street toward houses, “Acoma Pueblo. [National Historic Landmark, New Mexico]“

·         Adobe buildings / Native Americans

o        Description: This page contains information about Guard house at San Carlos in the early 1880s when the Indian Scouts or police acted as guards.

·         Adobe buildings / Native Americans / Military facilities

o        Description: This page contains information about Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Street view.

·         Adobe buildings / Pueblos / Watercolors / Villages / Settlements / Railroads

o        Description: This page contains information about A view of the Pueblo of Laguna. (see caption to 106-mcs-30)

·         Adobe buildings / Schools / Japanese-American relocation / Closed relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. This school, constructed of adobe bricks by the camp residents, now stands empty---waiting. No classes began in September in Poston. Units II and III of the Colorado River Relocation Center, meet their scheduled closings ahead of the deadline. These two camps which at one time had a population of over 8,500 Japanese Americans are now completely deserted.

·         Adobe buildings / Schools / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Colorado River Relocation Center, Poston, Arizona. New adobe school buildings erected at this center for use at the opening of the fall term of school.

·         Adobe buildings / Schools / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Colorado River Relocation Center, Poston, Arizona. New adobe school buildings erected at this center for use at the opening of the fall term of school.

·         Adobe buildings / Watercolors / Chimneys / Pueblos

o        Description: This page contains information about Notes on Photo: Chimneys. Cochiti, Nov, 30 '82

·         Adult education / Art education / Artificial flowers / Japanese-Americans / Handicraft / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. An adult education class at the Jerome Center, where a housewife prepares a wall plaque of artificial flowers, made form tissue paper. Afternoon and evening classes of home decorative arts are very popular among center residents, former west coast persons of Japanese ancestry, who attempt to soften the barren walls of their barracks homes with art objects of their own handiwork.

·         Adult education / Art education / Artificial flowers / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. In an afternoon class, enrolling 150 students, center housewives make artificial flowers of tissue paper and paste. Afternoon and evening classes of home decorative arts are very popular among center residents, former west coast persons of Japanese ancestry, who attempt to soften the barren walls of their barracks homes with art objects of their own handiwork.

·         Adult education / Art education / Bouquets / Storytelling / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. In an adult education class at the Jerome Relocation Center, where former west coast persons of Japanese ancestry now reside, Mr. Massao Hatano, teacher of Ikebana, points out deatails to student Fumiko Yoshigawa. The art of Ikebana, or plant arrangements, combines story telling and decoration. The arrangement of the plants involves family history and standing with artistic arrangement.

·         Adult education / Art education / Bouquets / Storytelling / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. Former California residents of Japanese ancestry, who now reside at the Jerome Center, show great interest in adult education classes, particularly in the decorative arts. Here, Massao Hatano, instructor in Ikebana, (plant arrangement), conducts an afternoon class. The art of Ikebana, or plant arrangements, combines story telling and decoration. The arrangement of the plants involves family history and standing with artistic arrangement.

·         Adult education / Art education / Handicraft / Sewing / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relcoation camps / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. A pattern making class in the adult education division of the Jerome Center schools. Housewives and mothers swelled the rolls of all adult classes that teach subjects which will contribute to the comfort of center living, for themselves and their families. These include pattern making, sewing, art and craft, interior decoration, etc. The women shown, are learning to design their own clothing, and prepare their own patterns. Instructors are chiefly qualified center residents, former west coast persons of Japanese ancestry.

·         Adult education / Art education / Handicraft / Teachers / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. Two students, in an adult education class, getting pointers from instructor Masso Hatano in the art of “Ikebana“. The exhibit illustrated, which was created by the instructor, is an example of the perfected art. All adult classes, which enable center residents, former west coast persons of Japanese ancestry, to break the harshness of their barracks homes, by providing small art objects, are very popular.

·         Adult education / Carpentry / Poultry houses / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Minidoka Relocation Center, Hunt, Idaho. Adult education class in carpentry, building chicken houses.

·         Adult education / Citizenship / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. At the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, night school classes in advanced English are very popular. For the first time, many of the older people are now able to take advantage of the opportunity to read and write the language of their chosen country.

·         Adult education / Classrooms / Women / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. An evening class in the adult education section who are taking up second year German. Note that among the students of Japanese ancestry, there is also in regular attendance, a caucasian grade school teacher.

·         Adult education / Construction / Irrigation / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Topaz, Utah. Vocational training class in farm construction gets some real action at the Topaz Relocation Center. Picture shows them getting practical class work in construction of irrigation gate.

·         Adult education / Crocheting / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Three members of an adult crocheting class. The instructor (center) teaches students to crochet everything from doilies to lapel trinkets and flower pot covers.

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