Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado album

File — Box: 2, Oversize, Folder: 1

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01: First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and War Relocation Authority Director Dillon Myer Visit Gila River Relocation Center, April 23, 1943
02: Two unidentified prisoners overhauling a truck loader at the Rohwer Relocation Center in McGhee, Arkansas
03: Joe Sitsuda weighs nails in Union Hardware Store in Denver, Colorado
04: A second-generation Japanese American working on a truck axel at Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming
05: Chester Ishii welding a piece of farm equipment at Rohwer Relocation Center in McGhee, Arkansas
06: An prisoner from Tule Lake Relocation Camp inspects crops on a farm near Chicago
07: An 18 year old prisoner from Tule Lake Relocation Camp shows eggs he collected on a farm near Chicago
08: Takayuki Tashima, imprisoned at Poston Relocation Center, topping beets on a farm near Milliken, Colorado
09: An prisoner from Tule Lake driving a power cultivator at the Curtiss Candy Company Farm in Marengo, Illinois
10: Marengo, Illinois. Two Washington farmers operating a tractor spray on a farm near Chicago where they were employed. The spray combated potato blight and as much as 4,000 gallons a day were mixed and spread by these former prisoners from the Minidoka Relocation Center
11: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Three high school agriculture students with three of their charges. From new born calves the students received farm shop credit through part-time farm work at the center farm units
12: YWCA camp, Pueblo, Colorado. Girls from the YWCA Camp, many of them imprisoned Japanese Americans, helped local farmers in their annual battle with weeds.
13: Schlosser farm near Chicago. A prisoner from Jerome Center feeding chickens at Schlosser farm where he was employed. Thie man had a brother in the army stationed at Camp Robinson, Arkansas
14: Marengo, Illinois. Unidentified man, a former farmer of Tacoma who was imprisoned at Tule Lake Relocation Center. He worked on a large farm North of Chicago
15: Libertyville, Illinois. An unidentified farmer from Venice, California, shown feeding oats to thresher on 2000 acre farm, where he was employed
16: Florence Art Company, Chicago. This unidentified young man was formerly an art student at San Jose College in California before forced evacuation and imprisonment. Now working for Florence Art where he decorated figurines and gift wares
17: Marengo, Illinois. This unidentified man was a former strawberry farmer from Mount Vernon, Washington. He was relocated to work on a large farm near Chicago
18: Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. In a sewing class, this prisoner gets pointers from instructor.
19: Colorado General Hospital, Denver, Colorado. Miss M. Honda attending patients in hospital where she was employed as a staff nurse. She was a graduate of the University of California School of Nursing in San Francisco and was formerly employed in public health nursing by the Los Angeles City of Health Department. Her father, mother, and a sister lived in Broomfield, Colorado.
20: Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. Six-year-old prisoner convalescing from an illness, looked after by nurse aid. All functions of the hospital were performed by center prisoners except the chief doctor and the superintending nurse.
21: Minidoka Relocation Center, Hunt, Idaho. Dave K. Yoshida, former chef for Benjamin Franklin Hotel in Seattle, working as chef at Minidoka with the kitchen crew preparing lunch. Menu: Baker Macaroni with Spanish sauce, spinach, pickled beets, bread pudding, tea, bread, and butter
22: Arcadia, California. Cooks of Japanese ancestry prepare meals for thousands of prisoners at the Santa Anita Assembly Center.
23: Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. Unidentified prisoner from California in a wood carving class.
24: Detroit, Michigan. Mister and Misses Doi in their victory garden.
25: University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska. Japanese American students at the University of Nebraska, one majoring in Dietetics and the other in Pharmacy
26: caption incomplete: Rohwer Relocation Center. McGehee, Arkansas. Classroom.
27: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Sixth grade boys playing softball at recess.
28: Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. A self-organized string quartet, in a practice session at the Jerome Center. Guitar, Joe Iwasaki; first mandolin, Johnny Yamashita; violin, Seichi Ono; second mandolin, Yutaka Motsuda
29: Heart Mountain Relocation Center. Heart Mountain, Wyoming. A young Nisei girl, age 13, a high school student at the Heart Mountain Center High School.
30: Central Methodist Church, Detroit, Michigan. Group outside church after attending services on June 20, 1943. In groups are: Miss Susie Itomura, who worked as a domestic; Mrs. Kenneth Nishimura and Mr. Nichimura, and two boys employed in foundry work.
31: Central Methodist Church, Detroit, Michigan. Japanese Americans who relocated to Detroit after being imprisoned in camps
32: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. A young Nisei girl purchasing Christmas wrappings in the cooperative notion store

Dates

1927-1957

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection materials are in English.

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