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o Description: This page contains information about Court House and House of Detention.

o Description: This page contains information about Taos County, New Mexico. Sheriff Montoya displays, with some pride, the tiny cell in which are locked drunks who won't behave, or special, important tough prisoners, with whom he wishes to take no chances. The box in which his hand holds the inserted key is an enormous lock which holds the bolt of the cell door. Cell is the size of a large closet.

· Japanese American relocation / Animal housing / Housing / Japanese-American assembly centers / Women

o Description: This page contains information about San Bruno, California. This center is a converted race track. Here are shown what were horsestalls remodeled into living quarters for families. Photograph was made at noon on the third day after the center had been opened.

· Japanese American relocation / Animal housing / Women / Housing / Japanese-American assembly centers

o Description: This page contains information about Tanforan Assembly center, San Bruno, California. Barracks for family living quarters. Each door enters into a family unit of two small rooms. Tanforan assembly center was opened two days before the photograph was made. On the first day there had been a heavy rain. When a family has arrived here, first step of evacuation is complete.

· Japanese American relocation / Carts & wagons / Horses / Secondhand sales / Evacuations

o Description: This page contains information about San Fransisco, California. A common sight on the streets of the Japanese quarter of the city prior to evacuation.

· Japanese American relocation / Cauliflower / Ranches / Evacuations / Agricultural laborers

o Description: This page contains information about Centerville, California. Japanese field laborers packing cauliflower in field on large-scale ranch owned by white operator (L.E. Bailey).

· Japanese American relocation / Cauliflower / Ranches / Evacuations / Agricultural laborers

o Description: This page contains information about Centerville, California. Japanese field laborers packing cauliflower in field on large-scale ranch owned by white operator (L.E. Bailey).

· Japanese American relocation / Croplands / Strawberries / Farms / Evacuations / Irrigation / Women

o Description: This page contains information about San Jose, California. Farm family in their strawberry field prior to evacuation. Their home can be seen in the background at the foot of the Santa Clara Coast Range Hills. This farm has been leased to a Filipino crew of single men who will take over on the day the Japanese families are evacuated.

· Japanese American relocation / Evacuations / Farming / Tomatoes / Women

o Description: This page contains information about Near Centerville, California. This farm woman of Japanese ancestry is transplanting tomato plants into growing beds prior to evacuation.

· Japanese American relocation / Evacuations / Houses / Women / Furniture

o Description: This page contains information about San Franssico, California. Street scene in Japanese quarter on day preceding evacuation to assembly center. Their household effects will be stored.

· Japanese American relocation / Evacuations / Stores & shops / Closed businesses

o Description: This page contains information about San Fransisco, California. Owners of Japanese ancestry board up windows of their stores prior to evacuation. Evacuees will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

· Japanese American relocation / Harvesting / Croplands / Strawberries / Evacuations

o Description: This page contains information about San Jose, California. Farm family in their strawberry field a few days before evacuation.

· Japanese American relocation / Houses / Evacuations / Trucks

o Description: This page contains information about San Fransisco, California. Dwelling is being vacated in the Japanese section near Post Street as evacuation orders were posted.

· Japanese American relocation / Housing / Animal housing / Women / Cabinetmaking / Building materials / Japanese-American assembly centers

o Description: This page contains information about San Bruno, California. Barracks for family living quarters. Each door enters into a family unit of two small rooms. The center was opened just two days before this picture was taken. The people shown in this photograph have just arrived and are occupying themselves with building benches, chairs, tables, and shelves, for their belonging, from scrap lumber. Quarters are equipped with only a bed and mattress for each person.

· Japanese American relocation / Housing / Trucks / Beds / Animal housing / Japanese-American assembly centers

o Description: This page contains information about San Bruno, California. Barracks for family living quarters. Each door enters into a family unit of two small rooms. Tanforan Center was opened two days before this photo was made. The truck seen coming down the dirt road is bringing bed-rolls and baggage to evacuees who have just arrived and are occupying these quarters.

· Japanese American relocation / Luggage / Housing / Animal housing / Women / Japanese-American assembly centers

o Description: This page contains information about San Bruno, California. This assembly center has been open for just two days. Bus-load after bus-load of evacuated Japanese are arriving today. After going through the necessary procedure, they are guided to the quarters assigned to them in the barracks. This family had just arrived. Their bedding and clothing have been delivered by truck and are seen piled in front of the former horse-stall to which they have been assigned. Unfortunately there have been heavy rains.

· Japanese American relocation / Luggage / Housing / Animal housing / Women / Japanese-American assembly centers / Children

o Description: This page contains information about San Bruno, California. This assembly center has been open for two days. Bus- load after bus-load of evacuated Japanese are arriving today. After going through the necessary procedure, they are guided to the quarters assigned to them in the barracks. This family had just arrived. Their bedding and clothing have been delivered by truck and are seen piled in front of the former horse-stall to which they have been assigned. Unfortunately there have been heavy rains.

· Japanese American relocation / Post offices / Relocation camps / Women

o Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. First service at the newly established post office, Post, at the relocation center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry on the Colorado River Indian Reservation. The post office was named in honor of Charles D. Poston, desert pioneer, and first Arizona territorial delegate to Congress.

· Japanese American relocation / Ranches / Evacuations / Agricultural laborers

o Description: This page contains information about Centerville, California. Laborer of Japanese descent packing cauliflower on large-scale industrialized ranch a few days prior to evacuation.

· Japanese American relocation / Signs / Public service employment / Japanese-American assembly centers

o Description: This page contains information about San Bruno, California. “Help Wanted“ sign displayed for newly arrived evacuees. There was much work to be done since the center was opened on the previous day. Three weeks later there were 8,000 persons of Japanese ancestry in this center.

· Japanese American relocation / Stores & shops / Evacuations / Signs / Closed businesses

o Description: This page contains information about San Fransisco, California. Businesses operated by people of Japanese ancestry were closed upon receiving evacuation orders.

· Japanese American relocation / Streets / Houses / Evacuations / Automobiles

o Description: This page contains information about San Fransisco, California. Looking up Buchanan Street from Post Street. A typical view of the Japanese residential section in San Fransisco.

· Japanese Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Buses / Children / Arrivals / Relocation camps

o Description: This page contains information about Eden, Idaho. Friends welcome new arrivals from the assembly center at Puyallup, Washington.

· Japanese Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Luggage / Trucks / Arrivals / Relocation camps

o Description: This page contains information about Eden, Idaho. Baggage, belonging to evacuees from the assembly center at Puyallup, Washington, is sorted and trucked to owners in their barrack apartments.

· Japanese Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Luggage / Trucks / Arrivals / Relocation camps

o Description: This page contains information about Eden, Idaho. Baggage belonging to evacuees from the assembly center at Puyallup, Washington, is sorted and then trucked to their barrack apartments.

· Japanese Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Recording & registration / Housing / Relocation camps / Women / Arrivals

o Description: This page contains information about Eden, Idaho. Newly arrived evacuees from the assembly center at Puyallup, Washington, are registered and assigned barrack apartments at this War Relocation Authority center.

· Japanese Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Recording & registration / Housing / Relocation camps / Women / Children / Arrivals

· Japanese Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Cabinetmaking / Carpentry

o Description: This page contains information about Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Evacuee workers operate a wood shaper in the wood working shop where furniture, schools, and recreational buildings at this relocation center, are being made.

· Japanese Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Farmers / Agricultural machinery & implements / Seeds / Peas

o Description: This page contains information about Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. John Matsumoto, 28, evacuee truck farmer putting seed peas in a pea drill at the relocation center.

· Japanese Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / General stores / Cooperatives / Women / Children

o Description: This page contains information about Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Typical scene in the Community Enterprise Stores at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center. Chief stocked items are tobacco, drug sundries, a limited supply of canned and packaged groceries and general notions. Stores are operated on a cooperative basis. The limited profit is returned to the evacuee residents.

· Japanese Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Luggage / Trucks

o Description: This page contains information about Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. As carloads of personal belongings arrived, at this relocation center they were taken to the cental square, sorted alphabetically and distributed to the barracks.

· Japanese Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Teachers / Weight lifting

o Description: This page contains information about Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. An instructor in the weight lifting class at this relocation center demonstrates the proper handling of 200 pound bars to a group of aspiring students.

· Japanese Americans / Stringed instruments / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Costumes / Theatrical productions / Women

o Description: This page contains information about Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. For the benefit of the administrative personnel of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, this player's group present a play from the folk lore of old Japan.

· Japanese Americans / Stringed instruments / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Theatrical productions / Costumes / Women

o Description: This page contains information about Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. A group of actors in a scene from a play depicting a legendary incident of old Japan, as presented at an entertainment program at this relocation center.

· Japanese relocation / Relocation camps / Broadcasting / Interviews / Project directors

o Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. Wade Head, project director with announcer Chet Huntley of CBS in a nationwide hookup at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

· Japanese-American / Japanese-American relocation / Shoemakers / Maintenance & repair / Sewing machines

o Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. J.K. Honda, shoe maker in the Shoe Repair shop.

· Japanese-American / Japanese-American relocation / Women / Home economics / Seamstresses / Adult education

o Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. A group picture of the sewing school.

· Japanese-American / Japanese-American relocation / Women / Home economics / Seamstresses / Sewing / Adult education

o Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. Sewing school. Evacuee students are taught here not only to design but make clothing as well.

· Japanese-American / Japanese-American relocation / Women / Home economics / Seamstresses / Sewing / Adult education

o Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. Sewing School. Evacuee students are taught here not only to design but make clothing as well.

· Japanese-American / Japanese-American relocation / Women / Home economics / Seamstresses / Sewing / Adult education

o Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. Sewing school. Evacuee students are taught here not only to design but make clothing as well.

· Japanese-American / Japanese-American relocation / Women / Home economics / Seamstresses / Sewing / Sewing machines / Adult education

o Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. Sewing School. Evacuee students are taught here not only to design but make clothing as well.

· Japanese-American / Japanese-American relocation / Women / Home economics / Seamstresses / Sewing / Sewing machines / Adult education

o Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. Sewing school. Evacuee students are taught here not only to design but make clothing as well.

· Japanese-American assembly centers / Japanese-American relocation / Housing / Trucks

o Description: This page contains information about Salinas Assembly center, California. A panoramic view of the Salinas Assembly center.

· Japanese-American relocation / Construction / Housing / Japanese-American assembly centers

o Description: This page contains information about Pomona, California. Workmen erecting barracks for evacuees of Japanese ancestry at assembly center on Pomona Fair grounds. Evacuees will be assigned later to War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

· Japanese-American relocation / Administrative agents

o Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. Norris James, Reports Officer.

· Japanese-American relocation / Administrative agents

o Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. Norris James, Reports Officer.

· Japanese-American relocation / Administrative agents

o Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. Norris James, Reports Officer.

· Japanese-American relocation / Animal housing / Housing / Japanese-American assembly centers / Women

o Description: This page contains information about San Bruno, California. This scene shows one type of barracks for family use. These were formerly the stalls for race horses. Each family is assigned to two small rooms, the inner one, of which, has not outside door or window. The center has been in operation about six weeks and 8,000 evacuees of Japanese ancestry are now assembled there.

· Japanese-American relocation / Animal housing / Housing / Racetracks / Japanese-American assembly centers

o Description: This page contains information about Tule Lake, California. A panoramic view showing a portion of the site for the Tule Lake War Relocation Authority center.

· Japanese-American relocation / Animal housing / Housing / Racetracks / Japanese-American assembly centers

o Description: This page contains information about San Bruno, California. A near- view of a horse stall left from days when what is now Tanforan Assembly center, was the famous Tanforan Race Track. Most of these stalls have been converted into family living quarters for evacuated Japanese.

· Japanese-American relocation / Bus stops / Evacuations / Identification tags / Children / Women

o Description: This page contains information about Centerville, California. A friend comes to bid a farmer of Japanese ancestry goodbye while awaiting an evacuation bus. Farmers and other evacuees will be given opportunities to follow their callings at War Relocation Authority centers where they will spend the duration.

· Japanese-American relocation / Bus stops / Japanese-Americans / Identification tags / Evacuations

o Description: This page contains information about San Fransisco, California. Just about to step into the bus for the Assembly center.

· Japanese-American relocation / Buses / Bus stops / Evacuations / Women

o Description: This page contains information about Oakland, California. Boarding a bus at the Wartime Civil Control Administration station for Tanforan Assembly center. These evacuees of Japanese ancestry will later be transferred to a War Relocation Authority center to spend the duration.

· Japanese-American relocation / Buses / Evacuations

o Description: This page contains information about San Fransisco, California. These evacuees of Japanese ancestry are part of a group of 600 persons being evacuated on this morning to the assembly center. The Japanese American Citizens League headquarters is being used as a Wartime Civil Control Administration station. Prior to evacuation orders it was used as a language school.

· Japanese-American relocation / Buses / Evacuations / Women

o Description: This page contains information about San Fransisco, California. The Japanese quarter of San Fransisco on the first day of evacuation from this area. About 660 merchants, shop-keepers, tradespeople, professional people left their homes on this morning for the Civil Control Station, from which they were dispatched by bus to the Tanforan Assembly center. This photograph shows a family about to get on a bus. The little boy in the new cowboy hat is having his identification tag checked by an official before boarding.

· Japanese-American relocation / Buses / Japanese-Americans / Luggage / Relocation camps / Arrivals

o Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. Site Number 1. Caucasian employees assist evacuees with the unloading of their baggage from the bus which has just arrived at the relocation center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

· Japanese-American relocation / Buses / Luggage / Relocation camps / Arrivals

o Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. Site Number 1 Construction employees sided evacuees unload their baggage as they arrived at the relocation.

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

o Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. New Years Fair. Crowds entering agricultural exhibit.

· Japanese-American relocation / Cafeterias / Queues / Japanese-American assembly centers

o Description: This page contains information about San Bruno, California. Supper time: Meal times are the big events of the day at the assembly centers. This is a line-up of evacuees waiting for the “B“ shift at 5:45 pm. They carry with them their own dishes and cutlery in bags to protect them from the dust. They themselves, wash their own dishes after each meal since the facilities in the mess halls proved inadequate. Most of the residents prefer this shift because sometimes they get second helpings. But the groups are rotated each week. There are eighteen mess halls at this camp that accommodate together, 8,ooo persons three times a day. All meals are prepared and served by evacuees.

· Japanese-American relocation / Canals / Relocation camps / Boundaries

o Description: This page contains information about Eden, Idaho. A view of the Twin Falls North Side Canal which borders this War Relocation Authority center.

· Japanese-American relocation / Canals / Relocation camps / Boundaries / Bridges

o Description: This page contains information about Eden, Idaho. A view of the Twin Falls North Side Canal which borders this War Relocation Authority center on the south.

· Japanese-American relocation / Canals / Relocation camps / Boundaries / Bridges

o Description: This page contains information about Eden, Idaho. A view of the Twin Falls North Side Canal which borders this War Relocation Authority center on the south.

· Japanese-American relocation / Celery / Croplands / Agricultural laborers / Ranches / Evacuations

o Description: This page contains information about Stockton, California. So-called “stoop“ laborers weeding celery field on large industrialized ranch in the Delta region, prior to evacuation. Evacuees will be given opportunity to follow farming and other callings at War Relocation Authority centers where they will spend the duration.

· Japanese-American relocation / Charts / Maps / Government officials

o Description: This page contains information about Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Beauford Hayden, Superintendent Reclamation Project, displaying chart showing the location of the site selected for a War Relocation Authority center for the housing of evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

· Japanese-American relocation / Clergy / Hands / Churches / Religious articles / Evacuations / Doors & doorways / Keys (Hardware)

o Description: This page contains information about Florin, California. Hands of Reverend Naito (Buddhist priest) are here as he locks the door of his church. The beads are carried by Buddhist priests at all times.

· Japanese-American relocation / Closed relocation camps / Trees / Refuse

o Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. A section of the Amache Relocation Center at Granada, Colorado as it looks today. The trees were planted by the evacuees to provide shade on the sandy, sun baked soil on which the center was erected. Temperatures of 120 and higher are not uncommon. A total of nearly 15,000 evacuees were inducted into the Granada Project, Amache, Colorado, since August 27, 1942, when the first group arrived from the Merced Assembly Center to prepare the camp for those to follow. The Relocation Center, as its name implies, was a temporary residence for those of Japanese ancestry who were transferred from their homes along the west coast under a war emergency measure of 1942. Many of the evacuees during the past three years were able to resettle and find new homes in the Middle West and eastern states. From September 1, 1945, to the closing date of October 15, 3,105 persons have gone back to their former homes or have relocated elsewhere. The last to leave the center a group of 126, left on two special coaches for Sacramento and nearby towns. At the peak of its population, Amache had 7,567 residents. 412 births were recorded and 107 deaths during the three years of its existence.

· Japanese-American relocation / Clotheslines / Evacuations

o Description: This page contains information about San Lorenzo, California. Washday 48 hours before evacuation of persons of Japanese ancestry from this farming community in Santa Clara County. Evacuees will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

· Japanese-American relocation / Clotheslines / Evacuations

· Japanese-American relocation / Clotheslines / Houses / Evacuations

o Description: This page contains information about San Lorenzo, California. Washday 48 hours before evacuation of persons of Japanese ancestry from this community in Santa Clara County. Evacuees will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

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