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Box MS611.01

 Container

Contains 88 Results:

Slides - P.611.117 - P.611.121 WWII and Edison Uno, 1940-1972

 File — Box: MS611.01, Folder: MS611.01.26
Identifier: MS611.01.26
Scope and Contents

Japanese American evacuation. Threads of Remembrance Quilt. JA man and woman (internees) looking at Heart Mtn. in the distance “Greetings from Heart Mountain”. Edison Uno. Photocopy; aerial view of Heart Mtn. barracks.

Dates: 1940-1972

Photographs - P.611.122 - P.611.127, 1942-1944

 File — Box: MS611.01, Folder: MS611.01.27
Identifier: MS611.01.27
Scope and Contents

Internees claiming personal effects upon arrival at Heart Mtn. Japanese woman looking at rows of bicycles, small wagons, and rugs on the ground with the barracks in the background. “Okano” in Army uniform between his Mother and sister. Chris E. Rachford, the 1st Project Director and Heart Mtn. Heart Mtn. barracks from a distance. Guy Robertson, Assistant Project Director and in Dec. 1942 became Project Director (see Box 5 folder 49) after Chris Rachford.

Dates: 1942-1944

Photocopies of Heart Mountain Relocation Center (HMRC), 1943-1944

 File — Box: MS611.01, Folder: MS611.01.28
Identifier: MS611.01.28
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of HMRC. Farming. Project Director standing with a Japanese American man in Army uniform. JA girl in traditional costume, dancing. Football games, “All Stars” vs “Jack Rabbits”. People ice skating. Highline Ditch Canal, the main irrigation source for center farmlands. 2nd Lt. Moe Yonemura of company C, 442nd Div. (from Camp Shelby) talking with Heart Mtn. draftees. Hog pens. High school girls doing daily calisthenics in the gym. Shoemaker at work in shoe repair shop

Dates: 1943-1944

Photocopies of HMRC, 1943-1944

 File — Box: MS611.01, Folder: MS611.01.29
Identifier: MS611.01.29
Scope and Contents Agriculture workers. Land cleared of sage and corrugated against erosion for spring planting. Lt. "Peanuts" Main and center hog. 2nd Lt. Keitanahashi of the 442nd Combat Team. More football and ice skating. Land cleared and planted in grain crops. Contoured irrigation system to prevent soil erosion. Three center residents watch as the first water finds its way along the just completed Highline Ditch Canal. Presentation of gifts at a Christmas Party from a man dressed as Santa Claus. ...
Dates: 1943-1944

Photocopies of HMRC, 1943-1944

 File — Box: MS611.01, Folder: MS611.01.30
Identifier: MS611.01.30
Scope and Contents Photocopies of HMRC. Female resident sunbathing at swimming pool. Issei funeral, dozens of people attending outdoor service. Casket on a stand and floral wreaths in front. Kindergarten art class. Agricultural workers on a tractor cutting down crop. Certificate; Nat’l Fire Protection Assoc., Heart Mtn., 1st place in the state of Wyoming. Birth certificate of Fujiye Mayda. Resident working in flower garden. Men ushering hogs into a chute. Fire dept. extinguishing a barracks fire. ...
Dates: 1943-1944

Photocopies on Internees at HMRC, 1942-1945

 File — Box: MS611.01, Folder: MS611.01.32
Identifier: MS611.01.32
Scope and Contents

Kay Tanikawa. Y. Numoto. Y. Kawano. Ei Kawano. Bill Tanakn. Hatu Tanikawa. Mr. and Mrs. Ando. W. Nalagawa. M. Mukoikuto. One resident unidentified.

Dates: 1942-1945

CD-ROM - JACL Presents: A Lesson in American History: The Japanese American Experience, 2001

 File — Box: MS611.01, Folder: MS611.01.33
Identifier: MS611.01.33
Scope and Contents

A Curriculum and Resource CD for Primary, Intermediate and Secondary Level Teachers. Video and still photos courtesy of California Flower Market / JCCCNC’s Generations: A Japanese American Community Portrait / NAATA / National Archives and Records Administration / Eiichi Sakauye. Copyright 2001 Produced by Bridge Media, Inc. for JACL

Dates: 2001

CD-ROM Transcript. A Lesson in American History: The Japanese American Experience., 1996

 File — Box: MS611.01, Folder: MS611.01.34
Identifier: MS611.01.34
Scope and Contents HISTORICAL OVERVIEW (highlights); First immigrants from Asia arrived during the California gold rush. The American agricultural industry recruited Japanese laborers to work in the sugar cane fields of Hawaii. Outbreak of war. A confidential report to the President and the Secretary of State which certified that Japanese Americans possessed an extraordinary degree of loyalty to the United States. Executive Order 9066...used for the purpose of removing and incarcerating the Japanese Americans....
Dates: 1996