“Young woman walking with child, Heart Mountain in the background.”
photo: Yoshio Okumoto, 1941-1945, Cody, Powell, Heart Mountain, Wyoming
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Landscape
original WRA caption: “Grade school children leaving the school, at the Jerome Relocation Center. During the rainy seasomn, in the heart of the Arkansas lowlands, the Jerome Center, whose residentsd are former Californians of Japanese ancestry, was one vast quagmire.”
photo: Tom Parker, 3/12/1943, Denson, Arkansas
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original museum caption: “Photograph, black and white glossy of a scene in Minidoka, Idaho[,] internment camp showing school children marching or parading near the barracks. There are two women white teachers and another adult woman at the rear. Some of the children are carrying American flags, and the flagpole in the back is at half staff.”
1940’s, Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho, courtesy of the Wing Luke Asian Museum, the Hatate Collection
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“The Nakao children.”
c. 1944, Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho, courtesy of the Mitsuoka Family Collection
Portrait
original WRA caption: “Young children at Jerome Relocation Center.”
photo: Gretchen Van Tassel, 1/18/1944, Dermott, Arkansas
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“Children posing with barracks and Heart Mountain in background”
photo: Yoshio Okumoto, 6/19/1944, Cody, Wyoming
Portrait
original WRA caption: “This family just arrived in the Stockton center this morning. The mother and children wait at the door of the room in the barracks to which they have been assigned, while the father is at the baggage depot where the bedding and clothing are being unloaded and inspected for contraband.”
photo: Dorothea Lange, 5/19/1942, Stockton, California
Landscape
original WRA caption: “Kiyoko Baba, 2, and Miyoko Baba, 4, looking from train which brought 600 evacuees from the assembly center at Puyallup. They will be transfered to buses, waiting at the siding, which will take them to the Minidoka War Relocatioon center to spend the duration.”
photo: Francis Stewart, 8/17/1942,