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o Description: This page contains information about Haskell County, Kansas. There are in Haskell County a large and variable number of operating one room schools, a consolidated grade school in Sublette, and two high schools. One other high school, just outside the county, serves a number of children in part of the county. People here are much interested in all their schools, far more than is true in many sections of the country, and it is the general rule that every non-Mennonite child graduates from high school. Many go to college. District school house in Haskell County.

· One-room schools / Teachers / Children reading & writing / Desks / Classrooms

o Description: This page contains information about Shelby County, Iowa. The general attitude in this community about education is that every child hould go through high school, but that, unless he wants to go on into some kind of specialized work, education beyond the twelfth grade is unnecessary. ...[This image is one of several] scenes inside and outside a typical one-room school house.

· Onions / Agricultural exhibits / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o Description: This page contains information about Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. The 1944 crop of Yellow Sweet Spanish onion grown by the Agricultrue Section of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center.

· Onions / Agriculture / Croplands / Farms / Land use

o Description: This page contains information about Huntley, Montana Reclamation Project, 1905-1931, Onions on Eiker's ranch. R.B.D. 9-0-17

· Onions / Croplands / Agricultural machinery & implements / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o Description: This page contains information about Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Hank Oba, 19 (left), and Ken Oba, 20, brothers from Venice, California, collaborate in operation a hand planter for sowing onion seeds at the relocation center.

· Onions / Croplands / Japanese-American relocation / Closed relocation camps

o Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Onion field on project farm. 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.

· Onions / Harvesting / Farm produce / Agricultural laborers / Agriculture / Land use

o Description: This page contains information about Huntley, Montana Reclamation Project, 1905-1931, Onions on the Eiker ranch. H.T.C. 9-14-14

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

o Description: This page contains information about Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Evacuees distribute scrap lumber to each block. This scrap will be used by the residents to contruct furniture for their apartments and also for firewood.

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

o Description: This page contains information about Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Ichiro Okumura, 22 (left), from Venice, California and Ben Iguchi, 20 from Sangus, California, thin young plants in a two-acre field of white radishes at the relocation center. High sierras are shown in the background.

· Open-air theatrical productions / Audiences / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women

o Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry watching an outdoor musical performance by evacuees at this War Relocation Authority center.

· Open-air theatrical productions / Audiences / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women

o Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry watching an outdoor musical performance at this War Relocation Authority center where they are spending the duration.

· Open-air theatrical productions / Audiences / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women

o Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. A group of interested spectator evacuees watch an outdoor musical and dramatic show. This show was the first to be given at this War Relocation Authority center, and the entertainment was furnished by evacuee talent.

· Open-air theatrical productions / Audiences / Open-air theaters / Tap dancing / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Women / Children

o Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. A young evacuee of Japanese ancestry entertains her fellow evacuees with a demonstration of her tap dancing ability. This was one number in an outdoor musical show.

· Open-air theatrical productions / Audiences / Utility poles / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry watching from their positions on a light pole an outdoor musical performance at this War Relocation Authority center.

· Operas & operettas / Portrait photographs / Opera singers / Stages (Platforms) / Musicians

o Description: This page contains information about Operetta cast and musicians

· Operas & operettas / Women / Costumes / Audiences / Theatrical productions

o Description: This page contains information about Report of WPA Activities of the Golden Gate International Exposition.--[“The opera unit of the Northern California music project entertained thousands with gaily costumed light opera.“]

· Operating rooms / Hospitals / Medical equipment & supplies / Japanese-American relocation / Closed relocation camps / Beds

o Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Main operating room in Amache hospital. 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.

· Opticians' shops / Eyeglasses / Health care / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. In the optometry clinic, a resident is fitted with corrective glasses.

· Oraibi / Pueblos / Rites & ceremonies

o Description: This page contains information about Oraibi, west court

· Orchards

o Description: This page contains information about Orchard looking southerly. Parcel 127, C.W. Wood. Todd Shipbuilding, Seattle, WA.

· Orchards / Fruit industry / Signs / Work camps

o Description: This page contains information about Contra Costa County, California. Entrance to labor camp, on large-scale fruit ranch.

· Orchards / Women / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Evacuations

o Description: This page contains information about Mountain View, California. Scene in orchard of a 20-acre farm in Santa Clara County before the operators were evacuated to assembly centers. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry are being transferred to War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

· Orchestras / Audiences / Women / Concerts / Afro-Americans / Choirs (music)

o Description: This page contains information about Report of WPA Activities of the Golden Gate International Exposition.--[“Weekly concerts of classical music . . .“ and “The federal recreation (center)“]

· Orchestras / Auditoriums / Dancing / Dance parties

o Description: This page contains information about Shelby County, Iowa. Dances are sometimes given in the “Old Opera House“ (a privately-owned building) by the members of the local dance club. These young people pool their money and rent the hall, bringing in one of eight or nine small orchestras from the surrounding towns. About 140 people are required to make these affairs balance financially. On this particular occasion, the roads were poor and only about 40 couples (all of them from Irwin) attended.

· Orchestras / Crowds / Audiences / Musical instruments / Concerts

o Description: This page contains information about Report of WPA Activities of the Golden Gate International Exposition.--[“Recreational music found its expression in amateur symphony orchestras.“]

· Orchestras / Native Americans

o Description: This page contains information about Orchestra

· Orchestras / Stages (Platforms) / Students / Native Americans

o Description: This page contains information about Student orchestra in front of the stage. (Missing Photo)

· Orchestras / Violins / String instruments / Native Americans

o Description: This page contains information about Part of the Metlakahtla Orchestra. Members unidentified.

· Orchestras / Women / Men / Portraits / Musical instruments

o Description: This page contains information about Young men and Women of Indian Orshestra

· Ordnance industry / Women / War work / Artillery (Weaponry)

o Description: This page contains information about Women move into the wartime labor force

· Ore industry / Copper mining / Copper industry

o Description: This page contains information about Copper mining scene, Bisbie, Cochise County, Arizona.

· Ore industry / Mining / Forest reserves

o Description: This page contains information about Ore piles on dump at main cut of Hard Time Lode

· Ore industry / Smelters / Industrial facilities

o Description: This page contains information about Old Dominion Company's smelting works, Globe Arizona.

· Organs / Interiors / Religious articles / Altars / Mission churches / Christmas decorations

o Description: This page contains information about Interior of Metlakahtla, B.C. Church at Christmas time; man playing organ.

· Oriental hand-to-hand fighting / Sports & recreation facilities / Women / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o Description: This page contains information about Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Not generally considered a sport for women, a Judo class, at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, organized at the request of the Nisei girls, enrolled 30 students. Here a student throws a male instructor in a standard Judo style.

· Orphanages / Churches / Missions

o Description: This page contains information about Methodist Orphans' Home, Unalaska.

· Orphanages / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Orphans / Children reading & writing

o Description: This page contains information about Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Orphan boys, two of a group of 65 who are now making their home in the Childrens' Village at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

· Orphanages / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Orphans / Infants / Women

o Description: This page contains information about Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. The two youngest of the 65 evacuee orphans in the Childrens' Village at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

· Osage / Kiowa / Painting / Hides & skins / Pictographs / Storytelling

o Description: This page contains information about Kiowa painting on canvas: “Osage and Kiowa Fight“

· Oto / Delegations / Native Americans / Portrait photographs / Studio props / Tomahawks / Medals

o Description: This page contains information about Oto delegation

· Oto / Native Americans / Portrait photographs / Studio props / Delegations

o Description: This page contains information about Oto delegation

· Oto / Native Americans / Studio props / Portrait photographs

o Description: This page contains information about Oto, full length portrait

· Oto / Portrait photographs / Native Americans / Studio props / Medals

o Description: This page contains information about Oto

· Outbuildings

o Description: This page contains information about Taos County, New Mexico. Outbuilding, Valdez.

· Outbuildings

o Description: This page contains information about Supervision. The Work Agency buildings.

· Outbuildings / Automobiles / Forest reserves

o Description: This page contains information about Buildings under permit on Blue Spruce Group

· Outbuildings / Chickens

o Description: This page contains information about Taos County, New Mexico. Outbuilding, Los Cordovas.

· Outbuildings / Employment / Labor housing / Construction camps

o Description: This page contains information about Buildings and landscape

· Outbuildings / Employment / Labor housing / Construction camps

o Description: This page contains information about Landscape with buildings

· Outbuildings / Employment / Labor housing / Construction camps

o Description: This page contains information about Back view of headquarters houses. St. Mary river.

· Outbuildings / Employment / Labor housing / Construction camps / Wooden buildings

o Description: This page contains information about Building

· Outbuildings / Employment / Labor housing / Construction camps / Wooden buildings

o Description: This page contains information about Buildings

· Outbuildings / Fences / Forest reserves

o Description: This page contains information about Buildings and yard on upper Silver Creek

· Outbuildings / Labor housing / Employment / Construction camps / Winter

o Description: This page contains information about Milk River Project

· Outdoor cookery / Camping / Laundry / Children / Women

o Description: This page contains information about With the U.S. Troops in Mexico. General view.

· Outdoor cookery / Expeditions & surveys / Scientists / Expedition photographs / Eating & drinking / Axes

o Description: This page contains information about Lower Yellowstone Project.

· Outdoor cookery / Laborers / Eating & drinking

o Description: This page contains information about CCC workers line up for food. Mud Lake NWR, Minnesota

· Outdoor cookery / Mexicans / Refugees / Forts & fortifications

o Description: This page contains information about Mexican federals in confinement at Fort Bliss, Texs, preparing their meals.

· Outdoor cookery / Tents / Refugees / Mexicans / Forts & fortifications / Eating & drinking

o Description: This page contains information about Mexican federals in confinement at Fort Bliss, Texas, preparing their meals.

· Ovens / Baking / Bread / Women / Bread / Kitchens

o Description: This page contains information about Taos County, New Mexico. Baking bread is a regular household task for Mrs. Pablo Gomez, Ranchitos.

· Ovens / Mining

o Description: This page contains information about Monetzuma furnace smelting works Oreana

· Owens Valley Indians / Demonstrations / Reading / Women / Children

o Description: This page contains information about Photographs, with captions, of various activities among Owens Valley Indians in California, from Carson Agency Annual Extension Report for 1940 (Narrative Section).

· Owls

o Description: This page contains information about Great Horned owl sitting on ground

· Ox teams / Carts & wagons / Shipping

o Description: This page contains information about Wood haulers, Garcia Bros. Ranch, Torocillas, Texas. May 25, 1904. These cattle are fed prickly pear except when grass is at its best. D.G.

· Ox teams / Shipping

o Description: This page contains information about Ox train used to transport supplies in Arizona Territory, 1883.

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