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War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945

BANC PIC 1967.014--PIC

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A section of the Winona Housing Project, Burbank, California, where trailer homes are provided for returned evacuees while they are securing permanent homes in and around Los Angeles. Photographer: Parker, Tom Burbank, California. 11/?/45

A section of the barracks and service building area of the Winona Housing Project at Burbank, California, where returning evacuees find temporary housing while they are locating permanent homes in and around Los Angeles. Photographer: Parker, Tom Burbank, California. 11/?/45

Residents of the Lomita Housing Project gather for chow. The project, located just outside Lomita, California, provides trailer and barracks type quarters for returnees while they are locating permanent homes in the area. Photographer: Parker, Tom Lomita, California. 11/?/45

Trailer and barrack type quarters provided at the Lomita Housing Project near Lomita, California, which are being used by returnees while they locate permanent homes in the area. Photographer: Parker, Tom Lomita, California. 11/?/45

A section of the barrack type quarters provided at the Lomita Housing Project for returnees while they are locating permanent homes in the area. Photographer: Parker, Tom Lomita, California. 11/?/45

At the Santa Ana temporary housing project a group of persons of Japanese ancestry, formerly evacuated from Hawaii, are gathered with their belongings about to board buses which will take them to Los Angeles Harbor and the SS Shawnee on the return trip to their former home. Photographer: Parker, Tom Santa Ana, California. 11/30/45

A portion of the Magnolia Housing Project at Burbank, California, where returned evacuees find temporary quarters while locating homes in the Los Angeles area. Photographer: Parker, Tom Burbank, California. 11/?/45

A portion of the Magnolia Housing Project at Burbank, California, where returned evacuees find temporary quarters while locating homes in the Los Angeles area. Photographer: Parker, Tom Burbank, California. 11/?/45

On a sundeck on the SS Shawnee, a group of small children have found entertainment while awaiting sailing orders in Los Angeles Harbor. The Shawnee was detailed to return 1100 persons of Japanese ancestry to their former homes in Hawaii. Photographer: Parker, Tom Los Angeles, California. 11/30/45

A soldier of the Army Transport Command hands a cup of milk to a small boy about to return to Hawaii. The Red Cross provided milk, coffee and doughnuts for persons of Japanese ancestry who were preparing to board the Shawnee, Army Troop Transport, which was detailed to return to their homes 1100 persons of Japanese ancestry evacuated during the war from Hawaii. Photographer: Parker, Tom Los Angeles, California. 11/30/45

Dr. Toshio Ichioka and his wife, Tsutayo (also and M.D.), in their office in East Los Angeles, California. The patient is Mr. Manuel Briones, whose family had gone the Ichiokas for a long time. The Ichiokas left Gila River in August 1944, going to Denver, where they were with the Denver Clinic. Both are licensed M.D.'s in California. He is an Issei, she a Nisei. They returned to California January 25, 1945, and have a good practice. Tsutayo's niece, Miss Satsuki Nakao, a licensed pharmacist, assists them. Toshio is also Japanese-language reporter in California for the Colorado Times of Denver. Photographer: Mace, Charles E. Los Angeles, California. 5/22/45

The Taki Asakuras, who arrived in Santa Barbara from Gila River, March 17, and resumed residence in their old home at 111 E. Canon Perdido Street, are seen escorting two veterans of the 100th Infantry Battalion on a tour of Santa Barbara's scenic spots. The two soldiers, Pfc. Yutaka Kawasaki (center) and Pfc. Nicholas T. Nababayashi (right), are patients at the Hoff General Hospital. With Taki is a young Caucasian neighbor, and with Mrs. Asakura, her young daughter, Naomi. The party is here shown relaxing in one of the city's public parks. Photographer: Mace, Charles E. Santa Barbara, California. 6/6/45

This huge Honor Roll on the main street in Watsonville contains many Japanese names, some with Gold Stars. The boys were former residents of the community and it is hoped that a lot of them will be able to return. Photographer: Mace, Charles E. Watsonville, California. 6/9/45

This fertile valley in Santa Cruz County, of which Watsonville is the center, contains much acreage owned by evacuees. Strawberries and vegetables are bringing the highest prices in history and can readily be disposed of. No incidents have occurred. Those who have returned are quickly getting back into harness. Photographer: Mace, Charles E. Watsonville, California. 6/9/45

Sam Kimura (left), formerly of the Minidoka Relocation Center, Cliff Dakama, also a former Minidoka resident, and Fujisada Takawa, former Topaz resident, pile up shells in an igloo, or storage point, at the depot. Each man brought his wife and children to the depot to live. Kimura, Dakama and Takawa each have one child. Photographer: Aoyama, Takashi Sidney, Nebraska. 11/28/44

With a family of ten to house, relocation might daunt some people. But not Fred Inouye, San Jose rancher lately of Heart Mountain. After two weeks' search failed to produce housing, Fred bought the premises at 260 Rosa Street, San Jose, got the tenants out by negotiation and moved in. Shown here on the lawn of their new home are (front row) Ruth, Gerald, and Melvin and (back row) Mrs. Isono Inouye, mother of Fred, Haruko Alice, Fred and his sister, Lilly. When the camera man arrived, Betty Jean, Fred's daughter, his brother, Richard, and sisters, Pearl and Elsie, were away from home. The Inouye family arrived home in July, 1945. Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru San Jose, California. 7/14/45

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Inouye, well known San Jose couple who recently relocated at the old stand from Heart Mountain, are shown here on the lawn of their new home at 260 Rosa Street, San Jose. When Fred decided to return home early in July, he bundled up the family of then and set sail for San Jose. Soon everyone was working but housing for so large a family was not easily solved. After pounding the pavements for a fortnight, Fred took the one sure way to housing. He bought a home, talked the tenants into vacating and moved in. With Fred from Heart Mountain are his mother, Mrs. Isono Inouye, his sisters, Lilly, Pearl, Ruth, and Elsie, his brother, Richard, Mrs. Alice Inouye and the children Betty Jean, Gerald and Melvin. Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru San Jose, California. 7/14/45

Sukemon Itami, 69-year-old father of Meddy and Shigeo, has his picture taken by the service star flag in the greenhouse window. Three sons and a son-in-law have been in the service, one recently receiving a medical discharge. Caucasian neighbors have been very friendly since the Itamis returned, and while these pictures were being taken, the woman stopped to ask for the addresses of the boys overseas. Mr. Itami reports that many sailors, sons of neighbors have stopped in to inquire about his sons, so that they may write to them. The two boys who are overseas met in France and wrote home that they were able to get together for a good chinfest on family news. Neither son knew the other was in the vicinity. The Itamis were at the Heart Mountain Center. Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru Portland, Oregon. 5/19/45

After a comfortable stay at the Washington Hostel, 2311 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., Mr. and Mrs. Shigeru Koizumi and their children Kiyoko and Albert, from Granada, prepare to leave the hostel for their brand new home in a government housing project. Mr. Koizumi has a government job. The hostel, accommodating 15 people, is conveniently located near downtown Washington, provides room and three meals a day for single persons and family groups at prices ranging from 50 cents to $2.25 depending on job and length of stay. "Washington, D.C.", . 8/?/45

Soldiers and their partners pause for some refreshment between dances at the Washington USO for Nisei servicemen. From left to right are: Pvt. George Saito, Chiye Numamoto, Alice Ishii (the two girls are from Rohwer), and Pvt. Maya Miyamoto, all being served by Miss Gretchen Feiker, Director of the USO. Photographer: Van Tassel, Gretchen "Washington, D.C.", . 8/11/45

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Series Descriptions

Series 1: Colorado River Relocation Center (Poston, Arizona), 1942-1945 (bulk 1942-43).

Series 2: Gila River Relocation Center (Rivers, Arizona), 1942-1944 (bulk 1942-43).

Series 3: Granada Relocation Center (Amache, Colorado), 1942-1945 (bulk 1942-43).

Series 4: Central Utah Relocation Center (Topaz, Utah), 1942-1945 (bulk 1942-43).

Series 5: Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Heart Mountain, Wyoming), 1942-1945 (bulk 1943-44).

Series 6: Jerome Relocation Center (Denson, Arkansas), 1942-1944.

Series 7: Beet Workers (Near Milliken, Johnstown, Keensburg and Prospect), 1942.

Series 8: Manzanar Relocation Center (Manzanar, California), 1942-1943.

Series 9: Minidoka Relocation Center (Hunt, Idaho), 1942-1943.

Series 10: Rohwer Relocation Center (McGehee, Arkansas), 1942-1944 (bulk 1942-43).

Series 11: Tule Lake Relocation Center (Newell, California), 1942-1945 (bulk 1942-43).

Series 12-13: Relocating Evacuees. Various cities and states, 1942-1945.

Series 14: Pre-evacuation, 1942.

Series 15: Assembly Center and Segregation, 1942-1943.

Series 16: Resettlement, 1943-1945 (bulk 1945).

Series 17: Miscellaneous and Unidentified, n.d.

Series 18: Slides, ca. 1942-1945.

Sub-series 1: Illustrations for the WRA lecture "The Wrong Ancestors," June 1943.

Sub-series 2: Granada Relocation Center. Amache, Colorado, ca. 1942-1944.

Sub-series 3: Extra slides from Granada, 1942-1944.

Sub-series 4: Central Utah Project. Topaz, Utah, 1945.

Container Listing

Series 1: Colorado River Relocation Center (Poston, AZ)

Series 2: Gila River Relocation Center (Rivers, AZ)

Series 3: Granada Relocation Center (Amache, CO)

Series 4: Central Utah Relocation Center (Topaz, UT)

Series 5: Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Heart Mountain, WY)

Series 6: Jerome Relocation Center (Denson, AK)

Series 7: Beet Workers

Series 8: Manzanar Relocation Center (Manzanar, CA)

Series 9: Minidoka

Series 10: Rohwer

Series 11: Tule Lake

Series 12: Relocation: new homes, etc. (various places)

Series 13: Relocation (continued)

Series 14: Preevacuation

Series 15: Assembly Center and Segregation

Series 16: Resettlement

Series 17: Miscellaneous

Series 18: Slides, ca. 1942-1945

Sub-series 1: Slides for the WRA lecture "The Wrong Ancestors," June, 1943.

Sub-series 2: Granada Relocation Center. Amache, Colorado, ca. 1942-1944.

Sub-series 3: Extra slides from Granada, 1942-1944.

Sub-series 4: Central Utah Project. Topaz, Utah, 1945

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