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Santa Fe

box 1, folder 1

Our pet hawk died, 1942 May 22.

Container Summary: (21 × 29 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper, matted)

Scope and Contents note

"Our pet hawk died on May 22. The following day Mr. Sato of Chula Vista died. But same day over 80 of us internees were released."
Unsigned with Japanese characters.
box 1, folder 2

Our guard became a spring baseball fan, n.d.

Container Summary: (21 × 28 cm. Watercolor and pencil on paper, matted)

Scope and Contents note

"Our guard in the watch tower became a spring baseball fan at Santa Fe."
Unsigned with Japanese characters.
box 1, folder 3

At evening I sketched this unusual cloud formation, 1942 May 31.

Container Summary: (25.5 × 37.5 cm. Watercolor on paper, matted)

Scope and Contents note

No caption.
Signed.
box 1, folder 4

Surprised guard on night watch at Santa Fe, n.d.

Container Summary: (27.5 × 42.5 cm. Watercolor and ink on heavy paper)

Scope and Contents note

"His bald pate shined as bright as a full moon."
Unsigned with Japanese characters.
[Also], Pencil and ink sketches of women in kimono verso.
box 2, folder 1

Early birds, 1942 June 8.

Container Summary: (19 × 27.5 cm. Watercolor and pencil on paper)

Scope and Contents note

No caption.
Unsigned.
box 2, folder 2

Chow time at the mess hall, 1942 June 8.

Container Summary: (19 × 30 cm. Watercolor and pencil on paper)

Scope and Contents note

No caption.
Unsigned.
box 2, folder 3

Relaxing after supper, 1942 June 8.

Container Summary: (21 × 29 cm. Watercolor and pencil on paper)

Scope and Contents note

No caption.
Unsigned.
box 2, folder 4

Santa Fe's sunsets were beautiful, n.d.

Container Summary: (17.5 × 26.5 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

No caption.
Signed.
box 2, folder 5

Enjoying the recording music, 1942 June 8.

Container Summary: (20.5 × 29 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"Mr. Murayama, Mr. Hoshimiya. Enjoying the recording music."
Unsigned.
box 2, folder 6

Dawn in the winter, n.d.

Container Summary: (20.5 × 28.5 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

No caption.
Unsigned with Japanese characters.
box 2, folder 7

Santa Fe internment camp, n.d.

Container Summary: (20 × 29.5 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"Santa Fe internment camp."
Signed.
box 2, folder 8

Panorama of Santa Fe internment center and mount, 1942 April 26.

Container Summary: (Painting 13 × 25 cm; mount 20 × 28 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper. Mount is card stock and rice paper with ink caption)

Scope and Contents note

No caption on painting.
Signed with Japanese characters. Caption on mount reads: "Panorama of Santa Fe internment center. Drawn on writing paper - with anxiety - during early days when I was not sure that drawings of any kind were permitted."
Unsigned with Japanese characters.
box 2, folder 9

Administration office, n.d.

Container Summary: (19.5 × 28 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"Mr. Ohkado, Mr. Nozaki R., Mr. Kitagawa M."
Unsigned.
box 2, folder 10

A canteen for the convenience of Santa Fe internee, 1942 June 11.

Container Summary: (19.5 × 29 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"Mr. Arai, Mr. Funahashi."
Unsigned.
box 2, folder 11

Sewing room, 1942 June 10.

Container Summary: (21.5 × 29.5 cm. Watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"Mr. Kamimura, Mr. Kamei, Mr. Kishi."
Unsigned with Japanese characters.
box 2, folder 12

Barber shop, 1942 June 8.

Container Summary: (21 × 28.5 cm. Watercolor and pencil on paper)

Scope and Contents note

No caption.
Unsigned.
box 2, folder 13

We made wooden clogs, 1942 June 10.

Container Summary: (21 × 30 cm. Watercolor and pencil on paper)

Scope and Contents note

No caption.
Unsigned.
box 2, folder 14

We made tubs, n.d.

Container Summary: (18.5 × 30 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

No caption.
Signed.
box 2, folder 15

An adobe house inside our Santa Fe camp, n.d.

Container Summary: (17.5 × 29 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"An adobe house inside our Santa Fe Camp."
Signed.
box 2, folder 16

Singing in the mess hall, n.d.

Container Summary: (21 × 30.5 cm. Watercolor and pencil on paper)

Scope and Contents note

No caption.
Signed with Japanese characters.
box 2, folder 17

Our umpire Mr. Higashikuze, n.d.

Container Summary: (20.5 × 29 cm. Watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"Mr. Higashikuze. Our umpire Mr. Higashikuze knew the rules but the players dint it. However we all had a good time."
Signed.
box 2, folder 18

This was the Santa Fe barrack no.5, 1942.

Container Summary: (21 × 21.5 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"This was the Santa Fe barrack no.5 where I stayed."
Signed.
box 2, folder 19

A butane tank, 1942 June 8.

Container Summary: (20.5 × 29.5 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"A butane tank was used to strike the gong that summoned us to mess hall. Santa Fe internment camp."
Signed in pencil.
box 2, folder 20

June 1942, 1942 June / May 23.

Container Summary: (19.5 × 29.5 cm. Watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"June 1942. Ending months of uncertainty, we were released from Santa Fe internment camp to return to our families at relocation centers. Everyone cheered as we left camp. Now there was hope we would return home."
Unsigned with Japanese characters.
box 2, folder 21

Strange cloud, n.d.

Container Summary: (36 × 25.5 cm. Watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper)

Scope and Contents note

No caption.
Unsigned.
[Also], copy print with identical dimensions.
box 2, folder 22

We stopped briefly at a small town, 1942 June 15.

Container Summary: (20.5 × 28.5 cm. Watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"We stopped briefly at a small town - Needles, they said. To our pleasant surprise, Japanese workers brought us boxes of food."
Unsigned.
box 2, folder 23

Mojave, California, 1942 June 15.

Container Summary: (19.5 × 27 cm. Watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"Mojave, Calif. We waited for our bus here for seven long hours in a desert windstorm - after we disembarked from the train."
Unsigned with Japanese characters.
box 2, folder 58

Original mounts and titles, n.d.

Container Summary: (Paper)
box 3, folder 1

Our roommates in barracks no. five, n.d.

Container Summary: (38.9 × 57.5 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper, matted. Source of title noted in pencil verso)

Scope and Contents note

"Mr. Okaski, Mr. Sugiyama, Mr. Tsuyuki, Mr. Hagio, Mr. Yamamoto, Mr. Tanaka, Mr. Hatori, Mr. Yamada, Mr. Musashi, Mr. Takamura."
Unsigned.
 

Manzanar

box 1, folder 5

Making rice cakes, 1942 December 31.

Container Summary: (21 × 28.5 cm. Watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper, matted)

Scope and Contents note

"Making rice cakes (mochi-tsuki). New Year custom. No 2 kitchen."
Unsigned.
box 1, folder 6

Mr. Hirozawa, n.d.

Container Summary: (27 × 34 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper, matted)

Scope and Contents note

"Mr. Hirozawa. The chemists work incessantly in search of a better method of extracting rubber. Here a chemist is preparing latex from guayule."
Signed.
box 1, folder 7

Some characteristics of guayule strains, n.d.

Container Summary: (19.5 × 25 cm. Watercolor [?] and ink on paper, matted)

Scope and Contents note

"Some characteristics of guayule strains."
Unsigned.
box 1, folder 8

First successful growing of guayule, 1942 October 19.

Container Summary: (20 × 28.5 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper, matted)

Scope and Contents note

"The first successful growing of -- guayule rubber plant cuttings."
Signed.
box 1, folder 9

Progress after one year, 1943 May 14.

Container Summary: (22 × 32 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper and inset black and white photograph, matted)

Scope and Contents note

"Progress after one year. The mess hall line."
With inset photo caption: "Wall painting by Takamura."
Signed.
box 1, folder 10

Mr. Akaboshi, 1943.

Container Summary: (25.5 × 36 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper, matted)

Scope and Contents note

"Rooted cuttings are transplanted to milk cartons and then to the field. Transplanting is done carefully and speedily by hand of the experimenters. Mr. Akaboshi."
Signed.
box 1, folder 11

Manzanar High School commencement of 1944, [1944].

Container Summary: (23.5 × 41.5 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"Manzanar High School commencement of 1944. Our democratic country has people representing all nation[s] -- Mr. Ralph P. Merritt."
Unsigned with Japanese characters.
box 1, folder 12

Untitled view of camp street, [1944?].

Container Summary: (24.5 × 39 cm. Watercolor on paper)

Scope and Contents note

No caption.
Signed.
box 3, folder 3

Keeping the camp clean and tidy, n.d.

Container Summary: (37.5 × 51 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

No caption.
Unsigned with Japanese characters.
box 1, folder 13

A huge blender, n.d.

Container Summary: (37 × 27.5 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"A huge blender speedily stirring gallons of water mixed with chopped guayule, forces rubber out of the wood. This is a mechanical method which has been proved most efficient in extracting rubber from guayule shrubs."
Signed.
box 1, folder 14

Mr. Nishimura, n.d.

Container Summary: (26.5 × 36.5 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"Mr. Nishimura. Analysis of the plant extracts is one of many research works which are carried out by the chemists. Here a chemist is working with a special apparatus for the determination of nitrogen."
Signed.
box 1, folder 15

Easter sunrise service, 1944 April 9.

Container Summary: (36 × 50.5 cm. Watercolor on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"Easter sunrise service."
Signed.
box 1, folder 16

Saturday afternoon looking south from block 8, 1943 May.

Container Summary: (31.5 × 50.5 cm. Watercolor on paper)

Scope and Contents note

No caption.
Signed.
box 1, folder 17

Mr. Hata, 1943.

Container Summary: (26.5 × 37 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"Propagation of plants by cutting method has been succeeded for the first time. Guayule cuttings are treated with a phytohormone before setting in a flat."
Signed.
box 2, folder 24

Home sweet home, 1942 June 16.

Container Summary: (21 × 28 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"Home sweet home for men coming home to Manzanar from [feet] furlough."
Unsigned with Japanese characters.
box 1, folder 18

First impression of Manzanar, 1942 June.

Container Summary: (21.5 × 29 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"First impression of Manzanar."
Unsigned with Japanese characters.
box 2, folder 26

I visited Dr. Carter today, 1942 October 8.

Container Summary: (21.5 × 29.5 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"I visited Dr. Carter today because school has opened and I am to make drawings of class scenes. It seemed a hundred people were rushing in and out of her office. All over her desk; the telephone rang all the time."
Unsigned.
box 2, folder 27

Its nap time, n.d.

Container Summary: (22 × 28.5 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"It's nap time, but there's more noise than rest. The youngsters wriggle around, won't lie still. The teachers look exhausted. The scam in the foreground turns around: 'Hiya popa, watcha doin?' Rest time in the nursery class."
Signed.
box 2, folder 28

Children in the classroom, n.d.

Container Summary: (20 × 29 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

No caption.
Signed.
box 2, folder 29

Teacher, I know, n.d.

Container Summary: (22 × 26.5 cm. Watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"'Teacher, I know - ' At the other end of the same barrack. First graders of Miss Joh sit awkwardly about the mess table. A question has just been asked. Little Hiroshi, on the end slowly lifts his hand 'Teacher, I know.'"
Signed.
box 2, folder 30

Did you ever see such individual dress attire?, n.d.

Container Summary: (21 cm × 28 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"Did you ever see such individual dress attire? This is a high school gym class I ran into on the dusty field next to block 7. Facing each other in a circle, they would clap their hands, say something, laugh. Off in the corner another class came dashing by in a cloud of dust. But school is wonderful."
Unsigned.
box 2, folder 31

A cooking class, 1942.

Container Summary: (22 × 30 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"A cooking class. What vitamins do potatoes have? Miss Smith teaches her girls in what used to be the kitchen of mess hall 7."
Signed.
box 2, folder 32

Gee, that Angleworm's my name, n.d.

Container Summary: (22.5 × 29.5 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"'Gee, that angleworm's my name.' said Haruo, slouched over the classroom steps as Mr. Lamphere showed his shorthand pupils how to write their name in the Gregg manner."
Signed.
box 2, folder 33

The boys in the woodcarving class, n.d.

Container Summary: (21.5 × 29 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"The boys in the woodcarving class of Mr. Bouche were being praised for their good work that day. The teacher was kept very busy showing his pupils how to hold the chisel."
Signed.
box 2, folder 34

Manzanar High School, 1942 October 8.

Container Summary: (21 × 29 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"Manzanar High School. Studies took on great importance in these barrack classrooms. This was a day before the week-end holiday."
Signed.
box 2, folder 35

Roll call is taken, 1942 October 8.

Container Summary: (21.5 × 28 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"Roll call is taken. This was first day of school he study hall. Converted from a former mess hall, resounded with laughter as Mr. Vanderjagt aide would call a name and a squeaky soprano would respond 'Here,' only to be followed by an off-pitch bass 'Heah.' Unsigned.
box 2, folder 36

Students hurry to the classes, 1943 Feb.

Container Summary: (20 × 30.5 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"Students hurry to the classes as the bell rings on this foggy morning."
Signed.
box 2, folder 37

Approximately 200 students graduated, 1943 July 3.

Container Summary: (22 × 30.5 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"Approximately 200 students graduated at second Manzanar High School commencement."
Signed.
box 2, folder 38

More Mochi at Manzanar, n.d.

Container Summary: (18.5 × 27 cm. Watercolor, pencil, and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

No caption.
Signed with Japanese characters.
box 2, folder 39

Making rice cakes, n.d.

Container Summary: (21 × 28.5 cm. Watercolor and pencil on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"Making rice cakes. New Year custom."
Unsigned.
box 2, folder 40

Pounding the Mochi, n.d.

Container Summary: (21.5 × 28 cm. Watercolor, pencil, and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

No caption.
Signed with Japanese characters.
box 2, folder 41

Mochi-Tsuki, n.d.

Container Summary: (20.5 × 28 cm. Watercolor, pencil, and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"Mochi-Tsuki."
Signed with Japanese characters.
box 2, folder 42

Mochi-Tsuki, Making rice cakes, n.d.

Container Summary: (19.5 × 25.5 cm. Watercolor, pencil, and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"Mochi-Tsuki. Making rice cakes. New Year custom."
Signed.
box 2, folder 43

Clothing allowance, 1942 October 12.

Container Summary: (19 × 28.5 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"Clothing allowance."
Unsigned with Japanese characters.
box 2, folder 44

Bainbridge people, 1942 February 24.

Container Summary: (21.5 × 30 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"Bainbridge people bidding farewell as they leave for Minnedoka relocation camp."
Unsigned.
box 2, folder 45

Residents installed plaster boards, 1942 November 1.

Container Summary: (19.5 × 29 cm. Watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"Residents installed plaster boards inside barracks. This was the room of Mr. and Mrs. Kurahashi."
Signed.
box 2, folder 46

At leisure on New Year's afternoon, 1943 January 1.

Container Summary: (22 × 34.5 cm. Watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper)

Scope and Contents note

No caption.
Signed.
box 2, folder 47

She is knitting. He is carving, 1943 February 18.

Container Summary: (19 × 27 cm. Watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"She is knitting. He is carving wood. They enjoy their hobbies."
Signed.
box 2, folder 48

Snow in January 1944, 1944 January 6.

Container Summary: (21.5 × 30.5 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"Snow in January 1944, block 35 at Manzanar."
Signed.
box 2, folder 49

Oil for the barracks, 1944 February 22.

Container Summary: (22 × 33 cm. Watercolor on paper)

Scope and Contents note

No caption.
Unsigned.
box 2, folder 50

The residents transformed dusty semi-arid land, 1942 October 26.

Container Summary: (20 × 29 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"The residents transformed dusty semi-arid land into green truck forms, growing vegetable crops of all kinds. I sketched this scene of workers harvesting large, ripe, sweet watermelons."
Unsigned.
box 2, folder 51

Manzanar farm, 1942 October 26.

Container Summary: (17 × 28.5 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"Manzanar Farm."
Signed.
box 2, folder 52

Farm workers, 1942 October 26.

Container Summary: (22 × 28.5 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"Farm workers harvest a crop of Manzanar grown okra."
Unsigned.
box 2, folder 53

Guayule shrub and leaf types, n.d.

Container Summary: (20 × 25 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"Guayule shrub and leaf types. Some of the leaf types can be used to distinguish one strain from another."
Unsigned.
box 2, folder 54

A biologist hybridizes, n.d.

Container Summary: (24 × 35 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"A biologist hybridizes Guayule trying to produce plants superior in quality than those existing now."
Signed.
box 2, folder 55

After the rain an abandoned baby cart, 1945 October 30.

Container Summary: (22.5 × 35 cm. Watercolor on paper)

Scope and Contents note

No caption.
Signed.
box 2, folder 56

The Manzanar auditorium, 1944 May 24.

Container Summary: (16 × 29.5 cm. Watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper)

Scope and Contents note

"The Manzanar auditorium and community hall nears completion."
Unsigned.
box 2, folder 57

Original mounts and titles, n.d.

Container Summary: (Paper)
box 3, folder 2

Untitled winter landscape, n.d.

Container Summary: (38.5 × 51 cm. Watercolor and ink on paper, matted)

Scope and Contents note

No caption.
Unsigned with Japanese characters.