·         Wood carvings / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. “Bucking Bronco“ - Woodcarving. War Relocation Authority Granada Project, Amache, Colorado.

·         Wood carvings / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Names

o        Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Woodcarving - Name Plate - Granada Project, Amache, Colorado, October 8, 1945.

·         Wood carvings / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Names

o        Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Name plate in English letters and Japanese characters carved from scrap lumber.

·         Wood carvings / Painting / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. Mr. Hitomi and some of the skilled wood carvings and paintings he has done while in camp. Although most of the skilled craftsmen have left Poston from time to time, there are still some residents who are still practicing their skills and crafts within the camp. They will soon be leaving perhaps to continue these as profitable businesses on the outside.

·         Wood carvings / Painting / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Poston, Arizona. Mr. Hitomi and some of the skilled wood carvings and paintings that he has done while in camp. Although most of the skilled craftsmen have left Poston from time to time, there are still some residents who are still practicing their skills and crafts within the camp. They will be leaving soon perhaps to continue these as profitable businesses on the outside.

·         Wood carvings / Paintings / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps / Names

o        Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Name plate made of slab of cottonwood tree.

·         Wood carvings / Wood carving / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. A wood carver in a craft shop at the Heart Mountain Center where persons of Japanese ancestry, evacuated from west coast defense areas, now reside.

·         Woodcarving / Woodcarvings / Art exhibitions / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. A woodcarving demonstration by M.Y. Murakami, left, a student and Y. Suzuki, right, the instructor, at the Arts and Crafts Festival, which was sponsored by the Education Division and the “Pioneer,“ the center newspaper.

·         Woodcarvings / Art exhibition / Adult education / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. The woodcarvings on this exhibit panel at the Arts and Crafts Festival, were made by students in adult education classes. This Festival was held March 6th to 8th in Terry Hall at the center, and was sponsored by the Education Division and the “Pioneer,“ the Granada Relocation Center newspaper.

·         Woodcarvings / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Cranes against a background of symbolic pines, plum blossoms, and bamboo shoots. Woodcarving by K. Ikegami.

·         Woodcutting

o        Description: This page contains information about This slash pile is typical of the work accomplished by the Biles-Coleman slach piling tractor. Notice the new terminal and lateral growth shoots on the ponderosa pine poles in the background.

·         Woodcutting

o        Description: This page contains information about Power saw felling of a tree marked for cutting by the foreter. One of the men operating the electrically powered chain saw is a Colville Indian. It is one of the first successful power sws on the Colville Reservation. The electric generator was mounted on a small tractor parked in a safe area out of the picture.

·         Woodcutting / Logs / Saws / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. A typical wood cutting scene on a street in the north end of the center.

·         Woodcutting / Native Americans

o        Description: This page contains information about Felling crew at work on the Kartar unit.

·         Woodcutting / Snow

o        Description: This page contains information about Forester selecting mature pines for cutting. He carefully inspects for overmaturity or tother signs of weakness that may predispose the tree to insect or disease attack. All single trees or groups of trees past their prime are harvested. Most of the larger trees in this photo were “marked“ for cutting.

·         Wooden buildings

o        Description: This page contains information about Building

·         Wooden buildings

o        Description: This page contains information about Buildings

·         Wooden buildings

o        Description: This page contains information about Fort Lapwai, ID. Barracks. On Lapwai River, 12 Miles from Lewiston.

·         Wooden buildings

o        Description: This page contains information about Presidio of San Francisco, CA. Hospital.

·         Wooden buildings

o        Description: This page contains information about Winnebago Agency, Nebraska. Mill and shop.

·         Wooden buildings

o        Description: This page contains information about Winnebago Agency, Nebraska. Licensed Trader's Store.

·         Wooden Buildings

o        Description: This page contains information about Shinn's ranch, summer quarters, Sierra Forest Reserve Cal. Meadow to be experimented upon. June 4 '03. D.G. Closer view of cottage.

·         Wooden buildings / Agricultural facilities

o        Description: This page contains information about View of hay barracks. Burlington, Iowa, July 1909. M. E. McC.

·         Wooden buildings / Agricultural facilities / Shelters

o        Description: This page contains information about Hay shed and rack. Farm of D.T. Killum, Winfield, Mo. Oct. 1912. D.G.M.

·         Wooden buildings / Forts & fortifications

o        Description: This page contains information about Presidio of San Francisco, CA. Barracks.

·         Woodworking

o        Description: This page contains information about Wing Table, Wing in Place #1.

·         Woodworking

o        Description: This page contains information about Main Hull Form.

·         Woodworking

o        Description: This page contains information about Hulls in forms -- left hull redy for removal from forms.

·         Woodworking

o        Description: This page contains information about Wing Table.

·         Woodworking

o        Description: This page contains information about WIng Table, wing in place #2

·         Woodworking

o        Description: This page contains information about Ribs and floor assembly and bending form.

·         Woodworking

o        Description: This page contains information about Bulkhead assembly form.

·         Woodworking / Boat & ship industry

o        Description: This page contains information about Wing room.

·         Woodworking / Boat & ship industry

o        Description: This page contains information about Placing fabricated underbody planking on hull.

·         Woodworking / Boat & ship industry

o        Description: This page contains information about Jig for locating fin edge of stringer and for giving correct contour to fin floor capstrips.

·         Woodworking / Schools / Classrooms / Saws / Students / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Woodworking shop tool room.

·         Woodworking / Schools / Classrooms / Teachers / Students / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Leo W. Kraus and his high school woodworking shop.

·         Woodworking / Teachers / Students / Classrooms / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Leo W. Kraus instructing high school class in properties of wood.

·         Wool / Barns / Interiors / Sheep shearing

o        Description: This page contains information about Shelby County, Iowa. Refer to negative no. 44265 for general caption. Detailed description: Several farmers in Irwin have a few head of sheep -- 20 or 30 usually. With wool prices rising, some of them wish they had more. The man doing the shearing goes from farm to farm with his own apparatus. An expert at this work, he shears quickly and wastes none of the wool.

·         Wool / Sheep shearing / Barns / Interiors

o        Description: This page contains information about Shelby County, Iowa.... Detailed description: Several farmers in Irwin have a few head of sheep -- 20 or 30 usually. With wool prices rising, some of them wish they had more. The man doing the shearing goes from farm to farm with his own apparatus. An expert at this work, he shears quickly and wastes none of the wool.

·         Wool industry / Exhibitions / Models

o        Description: This page contains information about Sheep-Dip, Exhibition of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture.

·         Work camps / Buses

o        Description: This page contains information about One mile south of Eloy, Pinal County, Arizona. School bus returns children to grower's camp in the late afternoon.

·         Work camps / Clotheslines / Mobile homes / Electric lines

o        Description: This page contains information about Edison, Kern County, California. Close-up potato camp.

·         Work camps / Cotton pickers

o        Description: This page contains information about Near Buckeye, Maricopa County, Arizona. Migratory cotton pickers in grower's camp.

·         Work camps / Cotton pickers

o        Description: This page contains information about Near Buckeye, Maricopa County, Ariz. Single-room apartment in the ... grower's camp. This room is occupied by migratory [African-American] cotton pickers, 8 in the family.

·         Work camps / Cotton pickers

o        Description: This page contains information about Near Buckeye, Maricopa County, Arizona. Cotton pickers' barracks. Double row of 20 single-room apartments with dirt floors. Corrugated iron construction, including partitions. Rooms about 10 feet by 10 feet size. When photograph was made all pickers were at work in the field.

·         Work camps / Cotton pickers / Migrant laborers / Tents / Clotheslines / Children

o        Description: This page contains information about Near Eloy, Pinal County, Arizona. Grower's camp for migratory cotton pickers. This camp has no running water.

·         Work camps / Cotton pickers / Tents

o        Description: This page contains information about Pinal County, Arizona, outskirts of Eloy. Grower's camp for cotton pickers.

·         Work camps / Cotton plantations

o        Description: This page contains information about Eloy District, Pinal County, Arizona. This camp has 8 lumber shacks, 12 tents (without floors), 2 toilets, 2 water faucets. Note cotton fields across the road. Note another cotton camp in the distance.

·         Work camps / Cotton plantations

o        Description: This page contains information about Eloy, Pinal County, Arizona. Part of large grower's camp for cotton pickers in the Eloy District.

·         Work camps / Cotton plantations / Huts / Tents

o        Description: This page contains information about Eloy District, Pinal County, Arizona. This camp has 8 lumber shacks, 12 tents (without floors), 2 toilets, 2 water faucets. Note cotton fields across the road.

·         Work camps / Cotton plantations / Water supply

o        Description: This page contains information about Eloy District, Pinal County, Arizona. Another large camp for cotton pickers maintained by the grower. Notice water tower and pump house which indicate recent improvements in living conditions in Arizona cotton camps.

·         Work camps / Flags

o        Description: This page contains information about Eloy District, Pinal County, Arizona. Government camp for migratory pickers near Eloy, Arizona. This is a FSA mobile camp unit.

·         Work camps / Flags / Tents

o        Description: This page contains information about Eloy District, Pinal County, Arizona. Government camp for migratory pickers near Eloy, Arizona. This is a FSA mobile camp unit.

·         Work camps / General stores / Automobile service stations / Signs

o        Description: This page contains information about Near Buckeye, Maricopa County, Arizona. Store at grower's camp for migratory cotton pickers. Surplus food stamps accepted.

·         Work camps / General stores / Cotton plantations

o        Description: This page contains information about One mile south of Eloy, Pinal County, Arizona. Store and office at grower's camp for cotton pickers.

·         Work camps / Huts / Cotton pickers

o        Description: This page contains information about Eloy District, Pinal County, Arizona. Large grower's camp for cotton pickers in the Eloy District.

·         Work camps / Huts / Hops

o        Description: This page contains information about Maricopa County, near Litchfield, Arizona. Vosberg Ranch, grower's camp for hop pickers.

·         Work camps / Irrigation ditch / Huts / Refuse disposal

o        Description: This page contains information about South of Eloy, Pinal County, Arizona. Grower's camp. Irrigation ditch at edge of camp becomes the refuse disposal.

·         Work camps / Laborers

o        Description: This page contains information about “Workers in camp on Wyoming road project.“

·         Work camps / Mexicans / Children / Water pumps / Huts / Peddlers / Food vendors

o        Description: This page contains information about Near Eloy, Pinal County, Arizona. Grower's camp for Mexican cotton pickers. Peddlers visit the Preparation of land for irrigation by California operators is done by large Arizona contracting firms. This bulldozer operator and family live in a trailer on edge of field while work on this 4 1/2 sections progresses.

·         Work camps / Migrant laborers / Cotton pickers / Tents

o        Description: This page contains information about South of Eloy, Pinal County, Arizona. Grower's camp for migratory cotton pickers.

·         Work camps / Signs / Barbershops / Tents

o        Description: This page contains information about Edison, Kern County, California. Close-up of barber shop in migratory potato pickers camp. ... Note the equipment.

·         Work camps / Tents / Automobiles / License plates

o        Description: This page contains information about Edison, Kern County, California. Close-up of potato pickers camp. $6 per month is charged for the right to pitch a tent on the ground.

·         Work camps / Tents / Mobile homes

o        Description: This page contains information about Edison, Kern County, California. Close-up of potato camp.

·         Work camps / Tents / Mobile homes / Auto camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Marysville, Yuba County, California. Marysville Auto Park, a private auto camp, just outside of town, on other side of D Street Bridge. ...headquarters for agricultural workers in and out of the working season.

·         Work camps / Tents / Mobile homes / Auto camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Marysville, Yuba County, California. Another view of Marysville Auto Park near the D Street Bridge.

·         Work camps / Women / Automobiles / Tents / Wagons / Auto camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Bakersfield on Highway 466. Private auto camp, better than the average. There are a score of private auto camps strung one after the other along this highway in the eight miles between Bakersfield and Edison. Ther were 30 agricultural labor families in this camp, on and off relief. Ten of these have lived here more than a year continuously. They pay four dollars per month for space to put a tent or trailer. Gas costs $1.50 per month, and electricity an additional $1.50 per month. They pay $10 per month for the rent of a tent with wooden floors, wooden sides, and furnished with gas and electricity. There are 8 toilets, 2 showers, 1 washing machine. Laundry tubs. Practically all these families have lived in this before. These camps also serve as housing for families with members continuously employed in the vicinity. In this camp were two families with year-round employment.

·         Workhorses / Carts & wagons / Ore industry

o        Description: This page contains information about Ore teams, Pinal Co., Ariz. Terr., ca. 1897

·         Workshops

o        Description: This page contains information about Brazing jigs - engine struts.

·         Workshops

o        Description: This page contains information about Keel assembly jig.

·         Workshops / Machinery

o        Description: This page contains information about Workshop at prison.

·         Wounds & injuries / War casualties / Soldiers / Military facilities

o        Description: This page contains information about Wounded Mexican soldier who crossed to the American side when Ojinaga, Mexico, was attacked and captured by Pancho Villa. Interned by US troops under the command of Captain Theodore Barnes, Jr., 8th Cavalry.

·         Wreckers (Vehicles)

o        Description: This page contains information about Ahrens Garage wrecker assists with heavy load. Wisconsin

·         Wrestlers / Festivals / Japanese-Americans / Japanese-American relocation / Relocation camps

o        Description: This page contains information about Gila River Relocation Center, Rivers, Arizona. The wrestling tournament held at this center on Thanksgiving day was witnessed by a large crowd of residents.

·         Writing

o        Description: This page contains information about Taos County, New Mexico. Foreman of Talpa Ditch Commission.

·         Writing / Alphabets (Writing systems) / Phonetic alphabets

o        Description: This page contains information about Philippine Linguistic Material

·         Writing / Facsimiles / History

o        Description: This page contains information about facsimile copy of page 62 of a manuscript history of Texas

·         Writing / Facsimiles / History

o        Description: This page contains information about facsimile copy of page 63 of a manuscript history of Texas

·         Writing / Geography / Recording & registration

o        Description: This page contains information about “Geographic description of that part of Florida which the Spainards possess, 1742.“

·         Writing / Inscriptions

o        Description: This page contains information about Writing from Inscription Rock, New Mexico

·         Writing / Inscriptions

o        Description: This page contains information about Detail of writing from Inscription Rock, New Mexico

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