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·         Facsimiles / History

o        Description: This page contains information about Esh-Tah-Um-Leah or Ishtaba, (Sleepy Eye). Brief biography.

·         Factories / Concrete / Concrete products industry / Excavation / Dam construction

o        Description: This page contains information about “West side of bedrock as seen from the west end of forebay slope. From left, concrete mixing plant - bent for low concrete placing trestle - drill sharpener sheds - excavation for 'block 40' behind section E of cofferdam, showing the two gantry hoists with clamshell buckets.“

·         Factories / Construction / Sugar industry / Beets

o        Description: This page contains information about “Beet sugar factory near Mitchell, Nebraska.“

·         Factories / Dam construction

o        Description: This page contains information about “Contractor's sand and gravel plant. The screening and washing house to the right the four plant conveyors and to the left is the sand conveyor.“

·         Factories / Dam construction / Concrete / Concrete products industry

o        Description: This page contains information about “View of west bank area from top of forebay slope at west abutment.“

·         Factories / Dam construction / Equipment

o        Description: This page contains information about “Contractor's sand and gravel plant. The screen house and one of the plant gravel conveyors and ladders.“

·         Factories / Expeditions & surveys

o        Description: This page contains information about Gould and Curry Reduction Works, 1867-68, Virginia City, Nevada

·         Factories / Quarries

o        Description: This page contains information about “Six Companies, Inc., gravel screening and washing plant. View from hill southeast of plant.“

·         Fairs / Agricultural exhibits / Woodcarving / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation Center

o        Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Woodcarving exhibited at the Amache Agricultural Fair, held September 11 and 12.

·         Fairs / Baseball / Baseball players / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Sports spectators

o        Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. A tense moment in the Amache - Prowers County all-star baseball game held in the center Sunday, September 12, 1943, in connection with the Amache Agricultural Fair. Amache won 20-9.

·         Fairs / Baseball / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Sports spectators

o        Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Part of the crowd of 2,000 people, evacuees and outsiders, who witnessed a baseball game Sunday, September 12, 1943, between the Prowers County all-star team and an Amache team. The Amache team won 20-9.

·         Fairs / Flowers / Bouquets / Agricultural exhibits / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation Center / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Trayscape and flower display at the Amache Agricultural Fair held September 11 and 12.

·         Fairs / Flowers / Vegetables / Agricultural exhibits / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Display of flower and vegetable arrangement at the Amache Agricultural Fair September 11 and 12.

·         Fairs / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Basketball / Sports spectators

o        Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. New Year's Fair. Part of a large crowd which witnessed a basketball game found “ringside“ seats on a recreation hall next door.

·         Fairs / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Committees / Posters / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. New Year's Fair committee.

·         Fairs / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Children playing with marbles

o        Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. New Years Fair marble champ, Jerry Osumi, age 11.

·         Fairs / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Children playing with marbles

o        Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. New Years Fair narble champ, Jerry Osumi, age 11.

·         Fairs / Native Americans / Navajo / Barbeque grills

o        Description: This page contains information about Stony Butte Fair; lunch for all. Eastern Navajo Agency, pictoral record of fairs held, Fall 1932.

·         Fairs / Native Americans / Navajo / Carts & wagons / Automobiles / Houses

o        Description: This page contains information about White Horse Fair. Eastern Navajo Agency, pictoral record of fairs held, Fall 1932.

·         Fairs / Native Americans / Navajo / Children / Carts & wagons / Automobiles

o        Description: This page contains information about Navajo Church; Pinedale Navajo children rode trailer to fair. Eastern Navajo Agency, pictoral record of fairs held, Fall 1932.

·         Fairs / Native Americans / Navajo / Corn

o        Description: This page contains information about Star Lake Fair; Judging corn. Eastern Navajo Agency, pictoral record of fairs held, Fall 1932.

·         Fairs / Native Americans / Navajo / Corn

o        Description: This page contains information about Navajo Church; Judging white corn. Eastern Navajo Agency, pictoral record of fairs held, Fall 1932

·         Fairs / Native Americans / Navajo / Corn / Melons

o        Description: This page contains information about White Horse Fair. Eastern Navajo Agency, pictoral record of fairs held, Fall 1932.

·         Fairs / Native Americans / Navajo / Corn / Melons / Children

o        Description: This page contains information about Ramah Fair. Eastern Navajo Agency, pictoral record of fairs held, Fall 1932.

·         Fairs / Native Americans / Navajo / Corn / Melons / Tapestries

o        Description: This page contains information about White Horse Fair. Eastern Navajo Agency, pictoral record of fairs held, Fall 1932.

·         Fairs / Native Americans / Navajo / Corn / Tapestries

o        Description: This page contains information about Stony Butte Fair. Eastern Navajo Agency, pictoral record of fairs held, Fall 1932.

·         Fairs / Native Americans / Navajo / Donkeys / Children

o        Description: This page contains information about Na Dish Kish Fair. Eastern Navajo Agency, pictoral record of fairs held, Fall 1932.

·         Fairs / Native Americans / Navajo / Food / Women / Cookery

o        Description: This page contains information about Na Dish Kish Fair; Broiled mutton- tortillos. Eastern Navajo Agency, pictoral record of fairs held, Fall 1932.

·         Fairs / Native Americans / Navajo / Horses

o        Description: This page contains information about Ramah Fair; Best Saddle Horse. Eastern Navajo Agency, pictoral record of fairs held, Fall 1932.

·         Fairs / Native Americans / Navajo / Infants / Mothers & childern

o        Description: This page contains information about Cannoncito Fair; Best Baby. Eastern Navajo Agency, pictoral record of fairs held, Fall 1932.

·         Fairs / Native Americans / Navajo / Melons / Tapestries

o        Description: This page contains information about Stony Butte Fair. Eastern Navajo Agency, pictoral record of fairs held, Fall 1932.

·         Fairs / Native Americans / Navajo / Mothers & children

o        Description: This page contains information about Na Dish Kish Fair; Baby show. Eastern Navajo Agency, pictoral record of fairs held, Fall 1932.

·         Fairs / Native Americans / Navajo / Running races

o        Description: This page contains information about Ramah Fair; Foot Race Eastern Navajo Agency, pictoral record of fairs held, Fall 1932.

·         Fairs / Native Americans / Navajo / Sheep

o        Description: This page contains information about Stony Butte Fair; judging lambs. Eastern Navajo Agency, pictoral record of fairs held, Fall 1932.

·         Fairs / Sheep

o        Description: This page contains information about Oregon State Fair, Salem, Oregon, Second Prize Long Mohair, 1920.

·         Fairs / Vegetables / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Agricultural exhibits

o        Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. New Year's Fair. View of throngs which viewed “home grown vegetables on display“ in the agricultural exhibit.

·         Fairs / Women / Native Americans / Infants / Exhibitions / Food industry

o        Description: This page contains information about Photographs, with captions, of baby show and canned food judging at Victory Fair, Walker River, Nevada, from Carson Agency Annual Extension Report for 1945 (Narrative and Illustrated Section).

·         Fairs / Women / Signs / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. New Years Fair. Pretty Nami Nadaoka is shown with the program sign at the fair, which was held at Camp Number 2.

·         Fairs / Women / Signs / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. New Years Fair. A group of pretty Nisei's pose beside the sign program at the fair held to commemorate New Years at Camp Number 2.

·         Families

o        Description: This page contains information about Mary Demery family picture

·         Families / Asian American / Children / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Oakland, California. This family of Japanese ancestry, is waiting at the Wartime Civil Control Administration station for the bus which will take them and other evacuees to the Tanforan Assembly center under Civilian Exclusion Order Number 28.

·         Families / Boys / Native Americans / Portrait photographs

o        Description: This page contains information about Tipi, summer home of full blood family. Turtle Mountain Res., North Dakota

·         Families / Children & adults / Homesteading / Pioneers / Infants / Children / Frontier & pioneer life / Settlements

o        Description: This page contains information about No original caption. [Woman standing with her family.]

·         Families / Children / Portrait photographs / Native Americans / Studio props

o        Description: This page contains information about Native Americans from Southeastern Idaho

·         Families / Children / Portrait photographs / Porches / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about General Philip Sheridan and members of his family at his home in Nonquitt, Mass.

·         Families / Children / Portraits

o        Description: This page contains information about St. Mary Indians - John Galbraith Squaw - Man and Family.

·         Families / Dogs / Houses / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Evacuations / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Mountain View, California. Members of the Shibuya family are pictured at their home before evacuation. The father and the mother were born in Japan and came to this country in 1904. At that time the father had $60 in cash and a basket of clothes. He later built a prosperous business of raising select varieties of chrysanthemums which he shipped to eastern markets under his own trade name. Six children in the family were born in the United States. The four older children attended leading California Universities. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority Centers for the duration.

·         Families / Eating & drinking / Dining tables

o        Description: This page contains information about Haskell County, Kansas. This is one of the best situated families in the county. The old man started the place many years ago, but it is now run by the son, a very able and intelligent young man. Their home is a good one, and they have done everything humanly possible to assure their livelihood in the event of drought or poor wheat markets. This family probably represents the highest local attainment in good living.

·         Families / Homesteading / Houses / Children

o        Description: This page contains information about Family group in front of cabin.

·         Families / Houses

o        Description: This page contains information about Jacob Whitebull family picture by their new home

·         Families / Houses / Women / Children

o        Description: This page contains information about Family in front of their house

·         Families / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women / Children

o        Description: This page contains information about Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Dave and Ruth Nitake with their daughter Judy. Dave is a block manager and his wife, Ruth, is office attendant at the project hospital. Formerly of El Monte, California, Dave operated a rich orange nursery and ranch, owned his own land and home, which is now in the care of a friend.

·         Families / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women / Children

o        Description: This page contains information about Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. A typical Nisei family, Bill, Alice and Young Mike Hosokawa. Bill is editor of the Heart Mountain Sentinel. Heart Mountain Relocation Center newspaper.

·         Families / Journalists / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Alice and Bill Hosokawa, young Americans of Japanese ancestry now residing at Heart Mountain. Bill, whose father came to the United States many years ago is a recognized Nisei leader, a graduate of the University of Washington, West coast newspaper man, foreign correspondent for the Shanghai Times and Far East Review and Editor of the Singapore Herald. Bill and Alice have lived in Japan and China, and Bill has traveled extensively in Mongolia and Melashia. His column in the Pacific Citizen and his editorials in the Sentinel reflect his wide experience in the indomitable faith in Americanism.

·         Families / Leisure / Interiors / Portraits

o        Description: This page contains information about Members of the families (?) of John, Charles and Emma Dorrance. 1915 and earlier.

·         Families / Mothers & children / Huts / Migrant laborers

o        Description: This page contains information about On Arizona Highway 87, south of Chandler. Maricopa County, Arizona. Children in a democracy. A migratory family living in a trailer in an open field. No sanitation, no water. They came from Amarillo, Texas. Pulled bolls near Amarillo, picked cotton near Roswell, New Mexico, and in Arizona. Plan to return to Amarillo at close of cotton picking season for work on WPA.

·         Families / Mothers & children / Mormon churches / Dairying / Infants / Children / Pioneers / Frontier & pioneer life / Settlements

o        Description: This page contains information about “Mormons at Mormon Dairy.“ Two women and their small children pose before a building at what is now known as Mormon Lake.

·         Families / Native Americans / Carts & wagons

o        Description: This page contains information about Family and goods in wagon. White Earth Res., Minnesota

·         Families / Native Americans / Children / Portrait photographs / Studio props

o        Description: This page contains information about Native Americans from Southeastern Idaho

·         Families / Native Americans / Children / Portraits

o        Description: This page contains information about Way John, his wife, sister-in-law and five children

·         Families / Native Americans / Children / Women / Villages / Settlements / Earth lodges

o        Description: This page contains information about Pawnee

·         Families / Native Americans / Portrait photographs

o        Description: This page contains information about Descendants of old Chief Red Shirt and Chief Two Bulls

·         Families / Native Americans / Women / Houses

o        Description: This page contains information about Photographs, with captions, showing old and new homes of Fort Bidwell's “Old People“, from “The Annual Report of Extension Workers..Sacramento & Mission Agencies in California and Eastern Navajo in New Mexico, from Dec. 1, 1931 to November 30, 1932.“

·         Families / Native Americans / Women / Houses

o        Description: This page contains information about Photographs, with captions, showing old and new homes of the Big Dick Family, from “The Annual Report of Extension Workers..Sacramento & Mission Agencies in California and Eastern Navajo in New Mexico, from Dec. 1, 1931 to November 30, 1932.“

·         Families / Oil wells / Native Americans / Government documents

o        Description: This page contains information about Synopsis of Annual Report and Annual Report for the Five Civilized Tribes Covering the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1940

·         Families / Portrait photographs

o        Description: This page contains information about Members of the families (?) of John, Charles and Emma Dorrance. 1915 and earlier.

·         Families / Portrait photographs / Studio props

o        Description: This page contains information about Native Americans from Southeastern Idaho

·         Families / Portraits

o        Description: This page contains information about Members of the families (?) of John, Charles and Emma Dorrance. 1915 and earlier.

·         Families / Tents / Camping

o        Description: This page contains information about Family camp near Kenel, South Dakota

·         Families / Tents / Women / Children

o        Description: This page contains information about Family group in front of tents

·         Families / Women / Childrens / Missionaries

o        Description: This page contains information about Rev. W.H. Collison and family.

·         Families / Women / Farmers / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Dogs / Evacuations

o        Description: This page contains information about Mountain View, California. The Shibuya family on the lawn in front of their beautiful home before evacuation to War Relocation Authority centers where residents of Japanese ancestry are to be relocated. Mr. and Mrs. Shibuya came to this country in 1904 with only $60 and a basket of clothes. Later they established a prosperous business of raising select varieties of chrysanthemums for eastern markets. Four of their six American- born children attended leading California Universities.

·         Families / Women / Girls / Pets / Native Americans / Portrait photographs / Chippewa

o        Description: This page contains information about “Typical Chippewa Indian home.“ Turtle Mountain Res., North Dakota.

·         Families / Women / Native Americans / Portraits

o        Description: This page contains information about Spotted Tail, wife and daughter, Sioux Indians.

·         Farewells / Departures / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women / Children

o        Description: This page contains information about Gila River Relocation Center, Rivers, Arizona. “Goodbyes“ are said as friends and neighbors again separate to return to their former west coast homes or to take up new residences in other parts of the country. On September 15, two weeks before the Canal Camp at Rivers, Arizona, was to close, only 635 people remained and 370 of these had bus or train reservations for the following week (the Canal Camp once had more than 5,000 residents). Most of the people are going out by special Greyhound buses. Their property, crated for freight shipment, is picked up at their homes and stored in project warehouses until it is loaded on the heavy trucking vans. Before the relocators leave the Center they secure their travel vouchers and their ration books from the Leave Office and get their special Relocation Grant from the Agent Cashier. Farm machinery, once used in the production of vegetables and melons for Gila and other centers, now is assembled ready to be moved from the Center. All the livestock is gone and buildings and fences are being torn down.

·         Farewells / Departures / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women / Children

o        Description: This page contains information about Gila River Relocation Center, Rivers, Arizona. “Goodbyes“ are said as friends and neighbors again separate to return to their former west coast homes or to take up new residences in other parts of the country. On September 15, two weeks before the Canal Camp at Rivers, Arizona, was to close, only 635 people remained and 370 of these had bus or train reservations for the following week (the Canal Camp once had more than 5,000 residents). Most of the people are going out by special Greyhound buses. Their property, crated for freight shipment, is picked up at their homes and stored in project warehouses until it is loaded on the heavy trucking vans. Before the relocators leave the Center they secure their travel vouchers and their ration books from the Leave Office and get their special Relocation Grant from the Agent Cashier. Farm machinery, once used in the production of vegetables and melons for Gila and other centers, now is assembled ready to be moved from the Center. All the livestock is gone and buildings and fences are being torn down.

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