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

o        Description: This page contains information about Jerome Relocation Center, Dermott, Arkansas. Young children at Jerome Relocation Center.

·         Japanese-Americans / Recording & registration / Japanese-American relocation / Queues / Military police / Women / Children / Evacuations

o        Description: This page contains information about San Fransisco, California. Japanese family heads and persond living alone, form a line outside Civil Control Station located in the Japanese American Citizens League Auditorium at 2031 Bush Street, to appear for “processing“ in response to Civilian Exclusion Order Number 20.

·         Japanese-Americans / Recording & registration / Japanese-American relocation / Queues / Military police / Women / Evacuations

o        Description: This page contains information about San Fransisco, California. Bush Street, San Fransisco. Japanese family heads and persons living alone form a line outside Civil Control station located in the Japanese American Citizens League Auditorium at 2031 Bush Street, to appear for “processing“ in response to Civilian Exclusion Order Number 20.

·         Japanese-Americans / Recording & registration / Japanese-American relocation / Queues / Women / Evacuations / Military police

o        Description: This page contains information about San Fransisco, California. Japanese family heads and persons living alone, form a line outside Civil Control station located in the Japanese American Citizens League Auditorium at 2031 Bush Street, to appear for “processing“ in response to Civilian Exclusion Order Number 20.

·         Japanese-Americans / Relocation camp employees / Closing preparations / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. A group of block managers select personnel to serve as train assistants during the movements to other center.

·         Japanese-Americans / Relocation camp employees / Closing preparations / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. Meeting of block managers to select personnel for train captains, monitors, etc., prior to movement to other centers.

·         Japanese-Americans / Relocation camp employees / Families / Living rooms / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women / Infants

o        Description: This page contains information about Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. A typical Nisei family of Heart Mountain Relocation Center, are Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Oki and their small daughter, Dinne. At the present time, Tom is block manager of block 25 at the center. The Okis formerly resided in Hollywood, California where Mr. Oki was employed by the Hanford Laboratory (research medical bacteriologist). Tom is a graduate of Stanford University - class of '39 - where he obtained his degree in bacteriology.

·         Japanese-Americans / Relocation camps / Japanese-American relocation / Interviews / Broadcasting

o        Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. Mrs. Lyle Kurisak, evacuee of Japanese ancestry, Norris James, War Relocation Authority official, in an interview at this War Relocation Authority center during a CBS nationwide hookup.

·         Japanese-Americans / Repatriation / Paperwork / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. Residents of Colorado River Relocation Center for persons of Japanese ancestry requesting repatriation to Japan.

·         Japanese-Americans / Repatriation / Paperwork / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. Residents of Colorado River Relocation Center for persons of Japanese ancestry requesting repatriation to Japan.

·         Japanese-Americans / Repatriation / Paperwork / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. Residents of Colorado River Relocation Center for persons of Japanese ancestry requesting repatriation to Japan.

·         Japanese-Americans / Repatriation / Paperwork / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. Residents of Colorado River Relocation Center for persons of Japanese ancestry requesting repatriation to Japan.

·         Japanese-Americans / Schools / Cafeterias / School children / Japanese-American relocation / Evacuations

o        Description: This page contains information about San Fransisco, California. Lunch hour at the Raphael Weill Public School, Geary and Buchanan Streets. Children of Japanese ancestry were evacuated with their parents to spend the duration in War Relocation Authority centers where educational facilities will be established.

·         Japanese-Americans / Searching / Japanese-American relocation / Military police / Luggage / Custom inspections / Railroad stations / Japanese-American assembly centers / Women / Arrivals / Identification tags

o        Description: This page contains information about Arcadia, California. All baggage is inspected before newcomers enter Santa Anita assembly center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Evacuees are transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

·         Japanese-Americans / Searching / Japanese-American relocation / Railroad stations / Custom inspections / Luggage / Military police / Japanese-American assembly centers / Arrivals / Identification tags

o        Description: This page contains information about rcadia, California. All baggage is inspected before newcomers enter Santa Anita Assembly center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Evacuees are transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

·         Japanese-Americans / Sick persons / Departures / Military police / Railroad passenger cars / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. A hospital case is loaded by a stretcher and will be cared for by Army nurses during the trip to the Gila River Center.

·         Japanese-Americans / Swine / Animal housing / Women / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Topaz, Utah. One of the caretakers on the hog farm, is an evacuee woman. Her responsibility is to see that the baby pigs receive the necessary care and attention, which is so necessary during their first few weeks of life. This specialized care is largely responsible for the fact that the death rate among the livestock here, is far less than the national average.

·         Japanese-Americans / Tables / Packing / Departures / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. Everybody helped in the loading of their neighbors' household goods prior to their departure to other centers.

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

o        Description: This page contains information about Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Part of a class under the Adult Education Program at this War Relocation Authority center. It is composed of Issei and Kibei evacuees who are studying the Ideals of American Citizenship and the English language with which they are unfamiliar. There are 18 such classes, each averaging 20 volunteer members and conducted by a volunteer instructor. This is a class in penmanship with Miss Doris Nakagawa, 25, as instructor. She is an American citizen who finished High School in this country and attended Glendale Junior College upon her return from two years in the Woman's College in Japan.

·         Japanese-Americans / Teachers / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / School children / Children reading & writing / Schools

o        Description: This page contains information about Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. An elementary school with voluntary attendance has been established with volunteer evacuee teachers, most of whom are college graduates. No school equipment is as yet obtainable and available tables and benches are used. However, classes are often held in the shade of the barrack building.

·         Japanese-Americans / Teachers / Japanese-American relocation / Schools / School children / Children reading & writing / Relocation camps / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. An elementary school with voluntary attendance has been established with volunteer evacuee teachers, most of whom are college graduates. No school equipment is as yet obtainable and available tables and benches are used. However, classes are often held in the shade of the barrack building at this War Relocation Authority center.

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

o        Description: This page contains information about Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. A teacher in the Jerome school bids goodye to some of her little pupils as they wait in the trucks to be put on the trains to other centers.

·         Japanese-Americans / Trucks / Departures / Children / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. A typical truck load of evacuees waiting to board the train for other locations.

·         Japanese-Americans / Ukeleles / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. A “uku“ [ukulele] affords amusement for young evacuee at this War Relocation Authority center.

·         Japanese-Americans / Vaccinations / Health care / Hospitals / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women / Arrivals

o        Description: This page contains information about Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Newcomers waiting their turn to be vaccinated at this Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. A personal history is kept of each case in the hospital of which this is a temporary building.

·         Japanese-Americans / Watch towers / Departures / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. Clara Hasegawa and Tad Mijake take a last look at the Jerome Center from the balcony of one of the camp's guard towers. The towers have not been manned since segregation was completed during the latter part of 1943 and have been popular with the young folks as a place of rendevous. This young couple will take up their new residence at the Rohwer Center.

·         Japanese-Americans / Watermelons / Croplands / Harvesting / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. Noberu Matsumoto, left, and Jimmie Ishida “look for a ripe one“. The men are residents of the Rohwer Relocation Center and have helped cultivate the extensive acreage being farmed by the evacuees. In common with most Americans they are very fond of watermelons and many acres are being harvested.

·         Japanese-Americans / Women / Japanese-American relocation / Horticulture / Croplands / Chrysanthemums

o        Description: This page contains information about Mountain View, California. Mrs. Ryohitsu Shibuya, wife of successful chrysanthemum grower, pictured above on their farm in Santa Clara County, before evacuation. Horticulturists and other evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be given opportunities to follow their callings at War Relocation Authority centers where they will spend the duration.

·         Japanese-Americans / Women / Cafeterias / Holidays / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. The Thanksgiving day dinner at the staff mess-hall.

·         Japanese-Americans / Women / Cooperatives / Newspaper vendors / Periodicals / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. The magazine counter at one of the cooperative stores in the Amache Relocation Center.

·         Japanese-Americans / Women / Departures / Railroad passenger cars / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. An attractive miss, aboard the train for Gila River, smiles as she calls to her friends who assembled at the train to say “Aloha“.

·         Japanese-Americans / Women / Families / Bedrooms / Housing / Drapery / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Unpacking in their quarters at this War Relocation Authority center. Rear: Eva (left) and Emiko Yamashita. Front: Mici Yamashita (left), and Taka Sakai. Family groups are kept intact in housing.

·         Japanese-Americans / Women / Fashion shows / Fashion models / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. A fashion show was one of the many exhibits held at this relocation center on labor day. Great skill was shown in dressmaking and tailoring, and was thoroughly appreciated by the large audience which witnessed this display.

·         Japanese-Americans / Women / Fashion shows / Fashion models / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. A fashion show was one of the many exhibits held at this relocation center on labor day. Great skill was shown in dressmaking and tailoring, and was thoroughly appreciated by the large audience which witnessed this display.

·         Japanese-Americans / Women / Fashion shows / Fashion models / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. A fashion show was one of the many exhibits held at this relocation center on labor day. Great skill was shown in dressmaking and tailoring, and was thoroughly appreciated by the large audience which witnessed this display.

·         Japanese-Americans / Women / Fashion shows / Fashion models / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Children

o        Description: This page contains information about Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. A fashion show was one of the many exhibits held at this relocation center on labor day. Great skill was shown in dressmaking and tailoring, and was thoroughly appreciated by the large audience which witnessed this display.

·         Japanese-Americans / Women / Japanese-American relocation / Clothes / Closets / Interiors / Japanese-American assembly centers

o        Description: This page contains information about Salinas, California. Makeshift closet in barracks at assembly center. Persons of Japanese ancestry were housed temporarily in such centers before being transferred to relocation centers.

·         Japanese-Americans / Women / Japanese-American relocation / Railroad stations / Trucks / Departures / Luggage

o        Description: This page contains information about Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. Passengers for the Gila River train leave the trucks and approach the cars to which they have been assigned.

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

o        Description: This page contains information about Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Pretty Hideko Takehara, 18-year-old Heart Mountain high school student formerly of Los Angeles, California where she attended Roosevelt High, poses for the camera.

·         Japanese-Americans / Women / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Christians / Clergy / Building dedications / Prayer

o        Description: This page contains information about Topaz, Utah. With a fervent prayer, this Japanese Topaz resident, a Christian Minister, opens the dedication ceremonies at the Relocation Center at Topaz.

·         Japanese-Americans / Women / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Cooperatives / Christmas decorations / stores & shops / Postcards

o        Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. A young Nisei girl purchases Christmas wrappings in the cooperative notion store.

·         Japanese-Americans / Women / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Newspaper vendors / Periodicals / Cooperatives

o        Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. A magazine and newsstand in the cooperative canteen.

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

o        Description: This page contains information about Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. General Office in the High School.

·         Japanese-Americans / Women / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Students / Schools

o        Description: This page contains information about Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. Changing classes at the temporary high school quarters.

·         Japanese-Americans / Women / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Students / Schools / Streets

o        Description: This page contains information about Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. Evacuee High School students are here shown changing classes.

·         Japanese-Americans / Women / Picnics / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Two pretty evacuees shouldered their lunch and hiked into the foothills for a labor day picnic.

·         Japanese-Americans / Women / Trucks / Packing / Departures / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. Scene in one of the block streets as transportation crews carry personal belongings from the one room residences and load them on trucks.

·         Japanese-Americans / Women / Typewriters / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. Alice Maeda signs up the Shiomichi family at the Intake center for the War Relocation Authority Work Corps.

·         Japanese-Americans Holidays / Festivals / Auditoriums / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Closing preparations / Women / Infants

o        Description: This page contains information about Topaz, Utah. Evacuees celebrate New Year's Eve. Japanese Americans at Central Utah Relocation Center celebrated reopening of the west coast with a big New Year's Eve party. Joseph Aoki portrays Father Time and his son Tommy, Baby New Year.

·         Japanese-Americans/ Agricultural laborers / Irrigation / Croplands / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Evacuee farm hands irrigate the crops at the farm on this relocation center.

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

o        Description: This page contains information about Closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. Transportation officials finish checking a bus load of Jerome residents as they depart for the Rohwer Center.

·         Japanese-Americans/ Women / Shoes / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Yaeko Yamashita (in doorway) watches Fugiko Koba trying a new pair of geta, which are stilt-like sandals especially useful in dust. They are evacuees of Japanese descent now living at this War Relocation Authority center.

·         Jetties

o        Description: This page contains information about Photograph with caption “Lake City breakwater, view of completed job.“

·         Jetties / Harbors / Construction

o        Description: This page contains information about South Jetty, Grays Harbor, Washington. Reconstruction.

·         Jetties / Harbors / Machinery

o        Description: This page contains information about South Jetty, Grays Harbor, Washington.

·         Jetties / Harbors / Machinery

o        Description: This page contains information about South Jetty, Grays Harbor, Washington. View of broken C.C.C. Speeder. Broken by overhang of pile drive.

·         Jetties / Harbors / Machinery / Construction

o        Description: This page contains information about South Jetty, Grays Harbor, Washington. Skookumchuck Quarry. General view of the quarry.

·         Jitterbug dancing / Sports & recreation facilities / Dancers / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. “Tubbie“ Kunimatsu and Laverne Kurahara demonstrate some intricate jitterbug steps, during a school dance held in the high school gymnasium.

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

o        Description: This page contains information about Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Bill Hosokawa, Editor of the Sentinel, Heart Mountain Relocation Center newpaper, and the Nisei leader in center activities, and American citizen, a graduate of the University of Washington, former west coast reporter and foreign correspondent, Bill has traveled throughout the Orient, has lived in Tokyo and Singapore, was editor of the Singapore Herald and war correspondent for the Shanghai Times and the Far East Review. A husky six footer and typical American newspaper man, Bill's editorials, which reflect the Nisei faith in the American way, have stirred nation wide press interest.

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

o        Description: This page contains information about Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Joe Blamey, born in Japan, came to this country when he was seven, twenty years ago. He is now editor of the local newspaper, the Manzanar Free Press at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

·         Journalists / Newspapers / Newspaper industry / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women

o        Description: This page contains information about Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Assembling and folding the Sentinel, Heart Mountain Relocation Center Newspaper, Bill Hosokawa, Editor, mothers his paper from editing and directing his reporters to seeing that they are wrapped and distributed properly to residents of Heart Mountain.

·         Judges / Missionaries

o        Description: This page contains information about Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite, 1816-1917. Member of the committee who advised and assisted William Duncan in the removal of his mission colony from British Columbia to Alaska in 1887.

·         Judges / Offices

o        Description: This page contains information about Taos County, New Mexico. Justice of the Peace Montoyo, Taos.

·         Jumping (Horsemanship) / Cavalry / Horses

o        Description: This page contains information about With the U.S. Troops in Mexico. Lieut. J. W. Viner of the 11th Cavalry.

·         Jumping (Horsemanship) / Cavalry / Horses

o        Description: This page contains information about With the U.S. Troops in Mexico. Lieut. J. W. Viner. 11th Cavalry.

·         Jumping (Horsemanship) / Cavalry / Horses

o        Description: This page contains information about With the U.S. Troops in Mexico. Lieut. Blunt of the 11th Cavalry.

·         Jumping (Horsemanship) / Cavalry / Horses

o        Description: This page contains information about With the U.S. Troops in Mexico. Lieut. Irwin - 11th Cavalry.

·         Jumping (Horsemanship) / Cavalry / Horses

o        Description: This page contains information about With the U.S. Troops in Mexico. OFFICERS JUMPING CONTEST. SUNDAY AUG. 6th, 1916. Lieut. A. F. Meyer Jr. of the 11th Cavalry.

·         Jumping (Horsemanship) / Cavalry / Military personnel

o        Description: This page contains information about With the U.S. Troops in Mexico. Lieut. George T. Patten jumping.

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