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Eden, Idaho--Newly arrived evacuees from the assembly center at Puyallup, Washington, are registered and assigned apartments
at this War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Hunt, Idaho. 8/17/42
Eden, Idaho--Newly arrived evacuees from the assembly center at Puyallup, Washington, are registered and assigned apartments
at this War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Hunt, Idaho. 8/17/42
Eden, Idaho--Newly arrived evacuees from the assembly center at Puyallup, Washington, are registered and assigned apartments
at this War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Hunt, Idaho. 8/17/42
Eden, Idaho--A view of the Twin Falls North Side Canal which borders this War Relocation Authority center on the south.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Hunt, Idaho. 8/18/42
Eden, Idaho--A view of the Twin Falls North Side Canal which borders this War Relocation Authority center on the south.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Hunt, Idaho. 8/18/42
Eden, Idaho--A view of the Twin Falls North Side Canal which borders this War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Hunt, Idaho. 8/18/42
Eden, Idaho--A view of a farm a few miles south of the Minidoka War Relocation Authority center. Beans are growing in the
foreground.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Hunt, Idaho. 8/18/42
Fumi Onodera, 20, proudly points at the names of her 3 brothers, Ko, Kaun, 24; and Satoru, 22, on the Honor Roll of Japanese
Americans serving in the U. S. Army from the Minidoka Relocation Center, Hunt, Idaho. The 3 brothers are in training in a
combat team at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, with other Americans of Japanese parentage. Some have already seen action in Italy.
The Onodera brothers are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Toyosuke Onodera of Hunt. He was formerly a tailor in Seattle, Washington.
The Hunt Honor Roll numbers 416 now and the list is still growing. More than half volunteered since Pearl Harbor.
Hunt, Idaho. 10/14/43
Eden, Idaho--A view of a farm a few miles south of the Minidoka War Relocation Authority center. Beans are growing in the
foreground.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Hunt, Idaho. 8/18/42
Adult education class in carpentry, building chicken houses.
Hunt, Idaho. 6/?/43
Swimming hole located south of warehouse are adjacent to the North Side Irrigation Canal, which may be seen at upper right.
Water flows from canal into pool and out again. The average depth of pool is 6 feet.
Hunt, Idaho. 8/28/43
Adult education class in auto mechanics.
Hunt, Idaho. 6/?/43
Norakuro band. This is called a harmonica band although harmonicas are augmented by an equal number of other instruments.
The organization, including the name, is patterned after Borrah Minnevitch's Harmonica Rascals. This band plays for center
dances and is very popular. They play both American and Japanese music, often putting Japanese lyrics to American music. Roy
Matsunaga, right, with baton, formerly of Portland, Oregon, is leader.
Hunt, Idaho. 8/20/43
Henry Tambora, a former radio repairman from Portland, Oregon, continues at his old trade in the radio repair shop at this
center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Hunt, Idaho. 12/10/42
Luncheon serving ....... Menu: Baked macaroni with Spanish sauce, spinach, pickled beets, bread pudding, tea, bread and butter.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Hunt, Idaho. 12/2/42
Hospital Series. One of the wards.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Hunt, Idaho. 12/10/42
Mud from rain and melting snow.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Hunt, Idaho. 12/10/42
Evacuee stenographers and clerks at work in Administrative Office.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Hunt, Idaho. 1/28/43
Shown here are the four Sakura brothers and their mother Mrs. Misa Sakura. The boys have volunteered for service in the combat
team in the United States Army, which is composed of Americans of Japanese ancestry. They are fulfilling a vow made to their
father, who died 20 years ago, to live and die for the United States, if Japan and America should ever go to war. Left to
right are Kenny, Ted, Mrs. Sakura, Chester, and Howard.
Photographer: Bigelow, John
Hunt, Idaho. 3/12/43
Hospital Series, Dental Laboratory.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Hunt, Idaho. 12/10/42
Series 10: Rohwer
Part of a crowd watching a football game between the Stockton and Santa Anita Teams.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/15/42
The crowd floods the football field as the game ends. Stockton and Santa Anita teams clashed mightily.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/15/42
The crowd floods the football field as the game ends. Stockton and Santa Anita teams clashed mightily.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/15/42
Junior High School students are here changing classes.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
Junior High School students are here changing classes.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
Evacuee High School students are here shown changing classes.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/17/42
Evacuee High School students are here shown changing classes.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/17/42
Evacuee High School students are here shown changing classes.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/17/42
A group of evacuee High School students are here shown changing classes.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/17/42
Volunteer workers are here constructing apartments for the administrative staff.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/19/42
Volunteer workers are here constructing apartments for the administrative staff.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/19/42
Volunteer workers are here constructing apartments for the administrative staff.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/19/42
Volunteer workers constructing apartments for the administrative staff.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/19/42
Volunteer workers are here constructing apartments for the administrative staff.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/19/42
Volunteer crews unloading supplies on a railroad siding for transportation to the warehouses at this relocation center.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/17/42
Residents of this center are cutting plaques from a green oak log for an oil painting.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/17/42
Three small boys compete in a stiff marble game on a Sunday afternoon in Block [cut off].
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/15/42
If he's a boy in America he plays marbles, as these lads of Japanese parentage are doing at the Rohwer Relocation Center.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/17/42
Voluntary workers cutting up cleared logs for stove wood and fuel collection.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/21/42
Voluntary workers cutting up cleared logs for stove wood and fuel collection.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/21/42
Voluntary workers transporting supplies from a railsiding to warehouses at this center by truck.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/21/42
Volunteer workers loading a truck from a boxcar for transportation to the warehouse at this center.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/21/42
Evacuees loading trucks with supplies for transportation to the warehouses at this relocation center.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/21/42
Volunteer workers loading coal from a gondola to trucks for transportation to mess halls. Wood is used for barracks heating.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/21/42
A view of the warehouse area at this relocation center.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/21/42
A group of girls who are residents at this center and a puppy at a football game.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/15/42
A group of girls who are residents at this center and a puppy at a football game.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/15/42
Dick Kunishima, Coach and former California High School Athletic Director, tears his team apart between halves of a Stockton-Santa
Anita game.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/15/42
Dick Kunishima, Coach and former California High School Athletic Director, tears his team apart between halves of a Stockton-Santa
Anita game.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/15/42
A football game between teams representing Stockton and Santa Anita.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/15/42
A football game between teams representing Stockton and Santa Anita.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/15/42
A crowd of evacuees watching a football game between teams representing Stockton and Santa Anita Assembly Centers.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/15/42
The crowd breaks the line during a tense moment of a football game between Stockton and Santa Anita teams.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/15/42
The crowd gathers on all available spots to see a football game. This game was between the Stockton and Santa Anita teams.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/15/42
The crowd stands on benches to see the football game between the Stockton and Santa Anita teams.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/15/42
Changing classes at the temporary high school quarters.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/23/42
Changing classes at the temporary high school quarters.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/23/42
Changing classes at the temporary high school quarters.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/23/42
Two young grade school students watch the camera as their pictures are being taken.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/22/42
The arrival of kindling wood from the contractor's stock pile means new shiny blocks for the Grade School children.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/22/42
This young lad was late for school and he isn't wasting any time.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/21/42
A typical wood cutting scene in the street in the north of the Rohwer Relocation Center, where former west coast residents
of Japanese ancestry are now residing. Wood, to be cleared from the prospective center farm lands. The cutting is accomplished
by volunteer teams selected by Block Managers, and each capable block resident contributes an equal amount of his time in
sawing and chopping the logs.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/21/42
Adding a front porch to their barracks, these centerites are thinking of winter snow and rain.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/21/42
At the Rohwer Relocation Center, wood for fuel is piled in the barracks street, while a group of residents use scraps for
constructing a sheltered stoop over the barracks porch. The fuel is provided by volunteer block groups, who saw and chop timbers
brought from the cleared center farm lands.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/21/42
A High School office assistant leaves the principal's office ringing the temporary class change bell. (A cow bell)
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/21/42
Ikebana. An example of the Japanese art of arranging plants, flowers and twigs.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
A Football squad at the Rohwer Center.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/?/42
Ray D. Johnston, the Project Director at this center, seated at his desk in the Administrative Office.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/27/42
Ray D. Johnston, the Project Director at this center, seated at his desk in the Administrative Office.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/27/42
A view of the Social Service Office Section.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
Ray D. Johnston, Project Director, in conference with the staff.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
A Judo class at this relocation area. Classes are held every afternoon and evening.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
A Judo class. Lessons are held every afternoon and evening at this relocation center.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
A Judo class. Lessons are held every afternoon and evening at this relocation center.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
A Judo class. Lessons are held every afternoon and evening at this relocation center.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
A Judo class. Lessons are held every afternoon and evening at this relocation center.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
A Judo class. Lessons are held every afternoon and evening at this relocation center.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
Ninth grade class being held in the Home Room. Mrs. Pearl Bristow, ninth grade teacher.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
The boys of 9A in shop class. Yataka Ito, teacher.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
Students of Japanese parentage of Grade 9-A in Spanish. Mrs. Marie McCullough, teacher.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
The Latin Class, 10-A. Miss Elaine Simpson, teacher.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/23/42
A Music Class. Vocal lessons are taught by Miss Leola Parsley.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
A scene in Jr. High School--the ninth grade. Mrs. M. H. Ziegler, teacher.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/24/42
Fourth Grade School in Barracks 43-4-B. Nareen Oura, teacher.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/24/42
Story hour in the first grade. Miss Margaret Morrissy.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/22/42
Eighth Grade Science class. Mr. Kinji Sayama, teacher.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
Kindergarten class in barracks 35-4-F. Shigeko Tabuchi, teacher.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/24/42
A student acting as teacher in a second grade class of the Rohwer Relocation Center grammar school. The assistant teacher
is a qualified center resident, who has been selected, among others, to assist the appointed personnel teaching. The class
room, a regular barracks room, and the furniture, temporary center constructed. Lily Namimoto, teacher.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/22/42
A third grade class at this relocation center. Miss Rose Shada, teacher.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/22/42
One of the third grade classes. Miss Rita Hayes, teacher.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/22/42
A third grade class at this relocation center. Miss Velma Mullins, teacher.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/22/42
Study Hall--a converted mess hall--High School. Miss Opal Albright, teacher.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
Interior view of the machine shop. (L to R) Ben D. Ramsdell, Instructor; Junidi Amada, William Tak[...] and Nirosh Uyshara,
Assistant Instructors in the Tool Shop. George Ota, Machinist.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
Mr. H. Zeigler, Elementary Principal at this relocation center.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/22/42
View of barracks at Rohwer Relocation Center showing front yards and drainage ditch which surrounds each block.
Photographer: Van Tassel, Gretchen
McGehee, Arkansas. 12/9/43
Dr. P. A. Weber, from the WRA office in Salt Lake City, who speaks fluent Japanese, talks with some of the evacuees during
the visit of a Relocation Team to the Rohwer Project.
Photographer: Van Tassel, Gretchen
McGehee, Arkansas. 12/9/43
There is provision for weaving and spinning at Rohwer Relocation Center. This man has grown his own cotton on a little plot
by his barrack. Here he is spinning it into thread preparatory to weaving it.
Photographer: Van Tassel, Gretchen
McGehee, Arkansas. 12/9/43
Many of the evacuees are very skillful woodcarvers. This man at Rohwer Relocation Center is at work on a cane.
Photographer: Van Tassel, Gretchen
McGehee, Arkansas. 12/9/43
This Issei woman is winding yarn in the weaving room at Rohwer Relocation Center.
Photographer: Van Tassel, Gretchen
McGehee, Arkansas. 12/9/43
Harold Fistere, Relocation Supervisor from Cleveland, and Elmer Shirrell, Relocation Supervisor from Chicago, discuss their
respective areas with an evacuee during a recent visit of a Relocation Team to Rohwer Relocation Center.
Photographer: Van Tassel, Gretchen
McGehee, Arkansas. 12/9/43
Scene at Rohwer Relocation Center. Alongside the barracks, many of the evacuees have small vegetable and flower gardens.
Photographer: Van Tassel, Gretchen
McGehee, Arkansas. 12/9/43
Mr. H. Zeigler, Elementary Principal, and his office staff, Miriam Minamo, Secretary (right), and Barbara Hamabe, File Clerk.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/22/42
General Office in the High School.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
Principal Wm. M. Beasley and his office staff, Nobu Sayama, Secretary, and Mary Fujita, clerk. (L to R) Nobuo Sayama, Secretary;
H. S. Principal, Wm. M. Beasley; Mary Fujita, clerk.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
John Bledsoe, Jr. High School principal, his secretary and two school students. (L to R) Jr. High School Principal, John T.
Bledsoe; Stenographer Stella Nawa; Students Agnes Yayosho and George Hanzawa.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
The 11th grade class in American History in the temporary High School. Mrs. B.D. Ramsdell.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
The third Grade class in the temporary elementary school in barracks 35-6-F. Teacher: Tokio Inouye.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
A football game, between teams representing Stockton and Santa Anita Assembly Centers, brings out practically the entire population
of the Rohwer Relocation Center, where persons of Japanese ancestry, formerly residents in west coast defense areas, now reside.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/24/42
Part of the football crowd at a game between teams representing Stockton and Santa Anita Assembly Centers.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/15/42
A view of the football crowd at a game between teams representing Stockton and Santa Anita Assembly Centers.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/15/42
A Japanese folk dancer at an outdoor entertainment.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/15/42
The engineering staff at this relocation center.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
A section of the office staff at the Rohwer center.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
A section of the office staff at this relocation center.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
A section of the office staff at the Rohwer Center.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
The Mail and File Section of the Office Staff at the Rohwer Center.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
J. A. Trice, Superintendent of Schools, and staff.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
Senior Physics Class in Barracks 11-F at the temporary High School quarters. D. L. Cook.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
A class in English at the Rohwer center. This class, a part of the Adult Education Program, is attended chiefly by issei women
who after having their first opportunity to learn English.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
A section of the Office Staff at the Rohwer Center.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
The Thanksgiving day dinner at the Staff mess hall.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
The Thanksgiving day dinner at the Staff mess hall.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
An art class at a recreation center at the Rohwer project.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
A section of the office staff at the Rohwer Center.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
Residents of this center gather strange root and tree formations from the surrounding forests of oak, cypress and gum, and
by deft handiwork make many art objects.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
A first generation mother learning to spin an old fashioned wheel at the Recreation Center.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/25/42
A 5-day Boy Scout Camp on the bank of the Mississippi River was composed of nearly a hundred boys from the Rohwer Center,
a few less from the Jerome Center, together with a small group from the nearby town of Arkansas City.
McGehee, Arkansas. 8/10/43
A 5-day Boy Scout Camp on the bank of the Mississippi River was composed of nearly a hundred boys from the Rohwer Center,
a few less from the Jerome Center, together with a small group from the nearby town of Arkansas City.
McGehee, Arkansas. 8/19/43
The championship softball game between two center clubs, Stockton Rebels and the Los Angeles Mutineers.
McGehee, Arkansas. 8/25/43
A tense moment in a football game between Stockton and Santa Anita teams finds spectators perched everywhere.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 11/15/42
In a sewing class at the Rohwer Center schools, Misaye Oku gets pointers from instructress, Mrs. Sadako Yasue. Adult classes,
teaching subjects which contribute to the comforts or living requirements of center life, are very popular with housewives
and mothers.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/7/43
A sewing class in the adult education division of the Rohwer schools. This class is conducted by center resident, Mrs. Sadako
Yasue, a qualified Home Economics Teacher, who, with other assistant teachers, have been recruited from among center residents
(former west coast persons of Japanese ancestry).
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/7/43
Much of the timber cleared from reclaimed farm lands is used for fuel to heat barracks homes. Cutting and chopping is done
by volunteer workers enlisted by block managers, to provide fuel for each individual block. Each capable resident is expected
to contribute his share of time to the fuel project.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/7/43
A big oak goes down with a crash, as center workmen begin clearing reclaimed land, which will be used for center agricultural
purposes. Workers, for this and other farm activities, are recruited from center residents (former west coast persons of Japanese
ancestry).
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/7/43
John K. Matsuhiro, a former California radio service man, carries on his trade at the Rohwer Center, where, despite difficulties
in securing repair parts, John has been able to keep many center radios functioning. Skilled workers, of nearly every type,
are found among the center residents (former west coast persons of Japanese ancestry).
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/8/43
Larry Sato, a former southern California dragline operator back at his old trade on a dragline at the Rohwer Relocation Center.
The task of maintaining the center and its facilities, and distribution of fuel, food supplies, etc., is carried on by workers
recruited from center residents (former west coast persons of Japanese ancestry).
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/8/43
Larry Sato, former southern California dragline operator back at his old trade on a dragline, at the Rohwer Relocation Center.
The task of maintaining the center and its facilities and distributing fuel, food supplies, etc., is carried on by workers
recruited from center residents, (former west coast persons of Japanese ancestry).
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/8/43
Sam Takeda and George Yoshihara, former west coast butchers, cutting meat for center mess halls. With meat rationing strictly
adhered to, only experienced butchers are employed in distributing the limited meat supply to mess hall kitchens. They are
recruited from center residents (former west coast persons of Japanese ancestry).
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/10/43
Sam Takeda, a former west coast butcher, cutting a beef quarter in the refrigerator room at the Rohwer Center. With meat rationing
strictly adhered to, only experienced butchers are employed in distributing the limited meat supply to mess hall kitchens.
They are recruited from center residents (former west coast persons of Japanese ancestry).
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/10/43
A group of farm workers assembling equipment, in preparing for spring plowing. Farm workers, for the extensive project agricultural
activities, are recruited from center residents (former west coast persons of Japanese ancestry).
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/9/43
Gathering a supply of food stuffs, in the produce cooler for delivery to center mess halls, are these two young former Californians
(former west coast persons of Japanese ancestry).
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/10/43
Husky young former west coast residents in the produce cooler at the Rohwer Center. Workers who handle the storage and distribution
of food supplies throughout the center, are recruited from center residents (former west coast persons of Japanese ancestry).
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/10/43
A part of the reed section of the High School band in a practice session. Most of the student band members are playing instruments
for the first time, and the band is fast becoming a matter of much pride among center residents (former west coast persons
of Japanese ancestry).
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/9/43
A part of the brass and reed section of the High School band of the High School in a practice session at the school's band
room. Most of the student band members are playing instruments for the first time, and the band is fast becoming a matter
of much pride among center residents (former west coast persons of Japanese ancestry).
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/9/43
A trombone section of the High School Band in a practice session at the school band room. Most of the student band members
are playing instruments for the first time, and the band is fast becoming a matter of much pride among center residents (former
west coast persons of Japanese ancestry).
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/9/43
A snare drum section of the high school band, in a practice session. Most of the student band members are playing instruments
for the first time, and the band is fast becoming a matter of much pride among center residents (former west coast persons
of Japanese ancestry).
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/9/43
A part of the brass section of the High School Band, at the Rohwer Center. The students learning to play instruments for the
band are former Californians, who, with their parents, were evacuated from strategic west coast areas.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/9/43
Captain John A. Holbrook, of a special Army Recruitment Team, points out the dotted line to Fred H. Kitagawa and Tommy Hiraoka,
who are volunteering for combat duty with a special Japanese-American unit in the United States Army.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/10/43
Sergeant Isamu Adachi, of the Army Recruiting Team, congratulates center residents Fred H. Kitagawa and Tommy Hiraoka on accepting
their enlistment papers for duty with a special combat unit of the United States Army.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/10/43
Ray D. Johnston, left, center director, and Captain John A. Holbrook, chief of an army recruiting team, discuss army with
a group of volunteers and Sergeant Isamu Adachi, at the Rohwer Relocation Center.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/10/43
Center Director Ray Johnston, right, congratulates George Kiwashima on his voluntary enlistment in the United States Army
while Captain John Holbrook and two other volunteers look on. (L to R) Captain John A. Holbrook, George Kiwashima, Charles
Afuso, Tommy Hiraoka and Ray Johnston.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/10/43
Allan Hagio, a former Californian artist, preparing a sign in the sign shop at the Rohwer Relocation Center, where former
west coast residents are temporarily residing.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/8/43
In the sign shop, at the Rohwer Center, experienced artists and sign painters prepare sign boards for center use.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/8/43
In the motor pool repair station. George Baba and Toki Umeda begin over hauling a truck loader. Motorized equipment at the
center is maintained by qualified mechanics volunteered from center residents (former west coast persons of Japanese ancestry).
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/10/43
In repairing a piece of farm machinery, Chester Ishii raises his welder's hood to inspect the job. Chester, a former California
mechanic, now resides at the Rohwer Center and contributes his knowledge and experience to the maintenance of center motorized
equipment.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/10/43
In center motor pool shop, George Kenotsu and George Baba, former, Stockton, California mechanics, prepare to remove an automobile
motor for over haul. Mechanical repairs to all center motor equipment is carried out by residents (former west coast persons
of Japanese ancestry).
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/10/43
In a wood carving class, this center resident, a former Californian of Japanese ancestry, works on a patriotic carving cut
from a natural hardwood formation.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/7/43
In the wood carving class, at the Rohwer Center, this young former Californian, begins work on a new piece of Arkansas birch.
Classes teaching arts and crafts, which enable center residents (former west coast persons of Japanese ancestry), to provide
art objects for their barracks, are very popular.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/7/43
Among the unusual hobbies to be found in the relocation center, whose residents are former west coast persons of Japanese
ancestry, is this former Californian's semi-precious stone cutting. He has prepared much interesting jewelry from bits of
unusual stone picked up on the center grounds.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/7/43
In a wood carving class, at the Rohwer Relocation Center, center residents (former west coast persons of Japanese ancestry)
enthusiastically take up the art of wood carving. They gather unusual shaped cypress roots and hard wood knots, as a basis
for carving art objects.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/7/43
Special trains are leaving from WRA relocation centers to return people of Japanese ancestry to their homes on the West Coast.
On July 26, a train left the Rohwer Relocation Center at McGehee, Arkansas, to take people to Sacramento, Stockton, Lodi,
Fresno, and Los Angeles. Pullman accommodations were provided for only the old and sick and for mothers with small babies,
others rode in antiquated coaches. Mrs. Cecelia Sutow, U.S. citizen, and her baby are on their way back to Los Angeles while
the husband and father is on his way overseas with the U.S. Army.
McGehee, Arkansas. 7/26/43
Special trains are leaving from WRA relocation centers to return people of Japanese ancestry to their homes on the West Coast.
On July 26, a train left the Rohwer Relocation Center at McGehee, Arkansas, to take people to Sacramento, Stockton, Lodi,
Fresno, and Los Angeles. Pullman accommodations were provided for only the old and sick and for mothers with small babies,
others rode in antiquated coaches. Loading at Rohwer Center of special train of July 26.
McGehee, Arkansas. 7/26/43
Special trains are leaving from WRA relocation centers to return people of Japanese ancestry to their homes on the West Coast.
On July 26, a train left the Rohwer Relocation Center at McGehee, Arkansas, to take people to Sacramento, Stockton, Lodi,
Fresno, and Los Angeles. Pullman accommodations were provided for only the old and sick and for mothers with small babies,
others rode in antiquated coaches. Mr. and Mrs. George Kaneko bid farewell to a friend before they leave on the special train
of July 26. Mr. Kaneko's father was also a U.S. citizen, and he has a brother in the Army and a sister in the WAC. (Mrs. Kaneko
is in dark suit.)
McGehee, Arkansas. 7/26/43
Special trains are leaving from WRA relocation centers to return people of Japanese ancestry to their homes on the West Coast.
On July 26, a train left the Rohwer Relocation Center at McGehee, Arkansas, to take people to Sacramento, Stockton, Lodi,
Fresno, and Los Angeles. Pullman accommodations were provided for only the old and sick and for mothers with small babies,
others rode in antiquated coaches. Crowd of Rohwer Center residents watches loading of special train of July 26.
McGehee, Arkansas. 7/26/43
Special trains are leaving from WRA relocation centers to return people of Japanese ancestry to their homes on the West Coast.
On July 26, a train left the Rohwer Relocation Center at McGehee, Arkansas, to take people to Sacramento, Stockton, Lodi,
Fresno, and Los Angeles. Pullman accommodations were provided for only the old and sick and for mothers with small babies,
others rode in antiquated coaches. Mrs. Hideo Kanow, Mother of four sons in the Army in Italy, all of whom have been wounded,
packs to return to Los Angeles on the special train of July 26.
McGehee, Arkansas. 7/26/43
Special trains are leaving from WRA relocation centers to return people of Japanese ancestry to their homes on the West Coast.
On July 26, a train left the Rohwer Relocation Center at McGehee, Arkansas, to take people to Sacramento, Stockton, Lodi,
Fresno, and Los Angeles. Pullman accommodations were provided for only the old and sick and for mothers with small babies,
others rode in antiquated coaches. Mr. and Mrs. George Kaneko, U.S. citizens, and their son Byron pack to return to Los Angeles
on the special train of July 26. Mr. Kaneko's father was also a citizen. He has a brother in the Army and a sister in the
WAC.
McGehee, Arkansas. 7/26/43
Special trains are leaving from WRA relocation centers to return people of Japanese ancestry to their homes on the West Coast.
On July 26, a train left the Rohwer Relocation Center at McGehee, Arkansas, to take people to Sacramento, Stockton, Lodi,
Fresno, and Los Angeles. Pullman accommodations were provided for only the old and sick and for mothers with small babies,
others rode in antiquated coaches. Mr. and Mrs. George Kaneko and their son, Byron, pack to return to Los Angeles. Mr. Kaneko,
whose father, too, was a United States citizen, has a brother in the Army and a sister in the W.A.C.
McGehee, Arkansas. 7/26/43
Special trains are leaving from WRA relocation centers to return people of Japanese ancestry to their homes on the West Coast.
On July 26, a train left the Rohwer Relocation Center at McGehee, Arkansas, to take people to Sacramento, Stockton, Lodi,
Fresno, and Los Angeles. Pullman accommodations were provided for only the old and sick and for mothers with small babies,
others rode in antiquated coaches. Mrs. Hideo Kanow, mother of four sons in the Army in Italy, all of whom are entitled to
wear the Purple Heart, bids farewell to one of her friends before she returns to Los Angeles on the special train of July
26.
McGehee, Arkansas. 7/26/43
Special trains are leaving from WRA relocation centers to return people of Japanese ancestry to their homes on the West Coast.
On July 26, a train left the Rohwer Relocation Center at McGehee, Arkansas, to take people to Sacramento, Stockton, Lodi,
Fresno, and Los Angeles. Pullman accommodations were provided for only the old and sick and for mothers with small babies,
others rode in antiquated coaches. Mr. Kaei Kamiya, U.S. Citizen, bids farewell from the truck before he boards the train
for Los Angeles with his wife and four children.
McGehee, Arkansas. 7/26/43
Special trains are leaving from WRA relocation centers to return people of Japanese ancestry to their homes on the West Coast.
On July 26, a train left the Rohwer Relocation Center at McGehee, Arkansas, to take people to Sacramento, Stockton, Lodi,
Fresno, and Los Angeles. Pullman accommodations were provided for only the old and sick and for mothers with small babies,
others rode in antiquated coaches. Mr. and Mrs. George Kaneko, U.S. citizens, and their son Byron wait for the train to pull
out to Los Angeles. Mr. Kaneko's father was also a U.S. citizen and he has a brother in the Army and a sister in the WAC.
McGehee, Arkansas. 7/26/43
Special trains are leaving from WRA relocation centers to return people of Japanese ancestry to their homes on the West Coast.
On July 26, a train left the Rohwer Relocation Center at McGehee, Arkansas, to take people to Sacramento, Stockton, Lodi,
Fresno, and Los Angeles. Pullman accommodations were provided for only the old and sick and for mothers with small babies,
others rode in antiquated coaches. Mr. and Mrs. George Kaneko, U.S. citizens, and son, Byron, bid farewell to friends at the
Block Mess Hall before they board the train for Los Angeles. Mr. Kaneko's father was also a U.S. citizen and he has a brother
in the Army and a sister in the W.A.C.
McGehee, Arkansas. 7/26/43
Special trains are leaving from WRA relocation centers to return people of Japanese ancestry to their homes on the West Coast.
On July 26, a train left the Rohwer Relocation Center at McGehee, Arkansas, to take people to Sacramento, Stockton, Lodi,
Fresno, and Los Angeles. Pullman accommodations were provided for only the old and sick and for mothers with small babies,
others rode in antiquated coaches. Center residents waving goodbye to friends from doorway of special train which left Rohwer
enroute to California July 26. [Left, Mrs. Cecilia Sutow and Christine.]
McGehee, Arkansas. 7/26/43
Noboru Matsumoto and Jimmie Ishida inspect tall corn they are helping to grow on the extensive agricultural project in connection
with the Rohwer Relocation Center where they reside.
Photographer: Mace, Charles E.
McGehee, Arkansas. 7/?/43
Residents of the Rohwer Relocation Center near McGehee, Arkansas, are shown harvesting a large crop of cucumbers grown at
the center's agricultural project.
Photographer: Mace, Charles E.
McGehee, Arkansas. 7/?/43
A young resident of the Rohwer Center views the grave of one of his relatives buried in the permanent cemetery, built and
maintained by the evacuees.
Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru
McGehee, Arkansas. 6/16/44
Residents of the Rohwer Relocation Center harvest a truck load of mustard on the extensive acreage they have helped cultivate
near-by.
Photographer: Mace, Charles E.
McGehee, Arkansas. 7/?/43
One of many truck loads of mustard harvested by the residents of the Rohwer Relocation Center on the land cultivated by the
evacuees.
Photographer: Mace, Charles E.
McGehee, Arkansas. 7/?/43
In contrast to most of the relocation center sites, many of the blocks in the Rohwer Center are shaded by trees. The residents
have done much to make their tar paper barracks more livable by the planting of flowers and vegetable gardens and the building
of rustic walks and bridges. This view is in block 7.
Photographer: Mace, Charles E.
McGehee, Arkansas. 6/16/44
Vines hide the tar paper on this Rohwer residence.
Photographer: Mace, Charles E.
McGehee, Arkansas. 6/16/44
One of the many small victory gardens seen throughout the Rohwer Center.
Photographer: Mace, Charles E.
McGehee, Arkansas. 6/16/44
Rohwer maintains its own cemetery at the edge of the center. Permanent tombstones and monuments are constructed by the residents.
The plot is landscaped and cared for by the evacuees. Comparatively few are buried here as cremation is the rule among Japanese
Americans.
Photographer: Mace, Charles E.
McGehee, Arkansas. 6/16/44
Rohwer maintains its own cemetery at the edge of the center. Permanent tombstones and monuments are constructed by the residents.
The plot is landscaped and cared for by the evacuees. Comparatively few are buried here as cremation is the rule among Japanese
Americans.
Photographer: Mace, Charles E.
McGehee, Arkansas. 6/16/44
Noboru Matsumoto, left, and Jimmie Ishida look for a ripe one. The men are residents of the Rohwer Relocation Center and have
helped cultivate the extensive acreage being farmed by the evacuees. In common with most Americans they are very fond of watermelons
and many acres are being harvested.
Photographer: Mace, Charles E.
McGehee, Arkansas. 7/?/43
The championship softball game between two center clubs, the Stockton Rebels and the Los Angeles Mutineers.
McGehee, Arkansas. 8/25/43
Special trains are leaving from WRA relocation centers to return people of Japanese ancestry to their homes on the West Coast.
On July 26, a train left the Rohwer Relocation Center at McGehee, Arkansas, to take people to Sacramento, Stockton, Lodi,
Fresno, and Los Angeles. Pullman accommodations were provided for only the old and sick and for mothers with small babies,
others rode in antiquated coaches. Mrs. Hideo Kanow, mother of four sons in the Army in Italy, packs to return to Los Angeles.
All of the four boys have been wounded. Mrs. Kanow said, I'm going back to Los Angeles to make a home for my boys to come
back to.
McGehee, Arkansas. 7/26/45
Special trains are leaving from WRA relocation centers to return people of Japanese ancestry to their homes on the West Coast.
On July 26, a train left the Rohwer Relocation Center at McGehee, Arkansas, to take people to Sacramento, Stockton, Lodi,
Fresno, and Los Angeles. Pullman accommodations were provided for only the old and sick and for mothers with small babies,
others rode in antiquated coaches. Stretcher case being loaded on pullman for return to Los Angeles. Only bed patients, the
infirm, and mothers with infants rode the pullman.
McGehee, Arkansas. 7/26/45
Special trains are leaving from WRA relocation centers to return people of Japanese ancestry to their homes on the West Coast.
On July 26, a train left the Rohwer Relocation Center at McGehee, Arkansas, to take people to Sacramento, Stockton, Lodi,
Fresno and Los Angeles. Pullman accommodations were provided for only the old and sick and for mothers with small babies,
others rode in antiquated coaches. Mrs. Hideo Kanow, Japanese citizen, mother of four sons in the service in Italy, all of
whom are entitled to wear the Purple Heart, bids farewell to a friend as the train pulls out. Mrs. Kanow said, I'm going back
to Los Angeles to make a home for my boys to come back to.
McGehee, Arkansas. 7/26/45
Forty head of Arkansas mules have been acquired by the Rohwer Relocation Center for use in the agricultural program.. The
residents (former west coast persons of Japanese ancestry), more accustomed to the use of mechanized equipment, are fast learning
the traditional character of the Arkansas mule.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/11/43
Morio Higashi, a former California plumber, marks out a steel casting for welding. The maintenance of center plumbing, electrical
and water supply facilities are carried on by qualified workers selected from center residents (former west coast persons
of Japanese ancestry).
Photographer: Parker, Tom
McGehee, Arkansas. 3/8/43
Series 11: Tule Lake
Tule Lake, Calif.--Construction begins April 23, 1942, on this War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Constriction of this War Relocation Authority center has commenced. Approximately 10,000 evacuees
of Japanese ancestry will be housed here for the duration.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Calif.--Bird's-eye view of War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Drainage ditch near the War Relocation Authority center which is being established to house 10,000
evacuees of Japanese ancestry for the duration.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Calif.--Construction begins on War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry near Tule Lake
in Modoc County, California, south of the Oregon border.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Site on which a War Relocation Authority center is to be constructed for the housing of 10,000
evacuees of Japanese ancestry for the duration.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Construction of barrack apartments has begun at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees
of Japanese ancestry.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Work commences on the construction of barrack homes for evacuees of Japanese ancestry on the site
selected for this War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--This site near Tule Lake in Modoc County, just south of the Oregon border, has been selected for
the construction of a War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Construction begins on the site selected for this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees
of Japanese ancestry.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tulelake, Calif.--View of a main street of this town which is located near the site selected for the construction of a War
Relocation Authority center for the housing of evacuees of Japanese ancestry for the duration.
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Calif.--Construction begins on this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry near Tule
Lake in Modoc County, California, south of the Oregon border.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Drainage ditch at this War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Calif.--Beauford Hayden, Superintendent Reclamation Project, displaying chart showing the location of the site
selected for a War Relocation Authority center for the housing of evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--A scene on a farm near the site selected for a War Relocation Authority center where evacuees of
Japanese ancestry will spend the duration.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tulelake, Calif.--This field of sugar beets is located three miles southeast of Tulelake, California, near the site selected
for a War Relocation Authority center for the housing of 10,000 evacuees of Japanese ancestry for the duration.
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Calif.--Construction begins on War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry near Tule Lake
in Modoc County, California, south of the Oregon border.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Calif.--Potato digger operating at Hatfield, California. Adaptable for growing potatoes is acreage in War Relocation
Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry near Tule Lake in Modoc County, south of the Oregon border.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Calif.--View of Canadian Honker geese in formation over Tule Lake Sump Wildlife Refuge. The geese nest here and
may be seen the year around. In this area in Modoc County, south of the Oregon border, a War Relocation Authority center is
being built for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Calif.--Construction begins on a War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry near Tule Lake
in Modoc County, California, south of the Oregon border.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Great originality in costumes was shown at the Harvest Festival parade held at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 10/31/42
Great originality in costumes was shown at the Harvest Festival Parade held at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 10/31/42
Two evacuees in the Harvest Festival Parade who wore cleverly designed costumes.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 10/31/42
Great originality in costume designs was shown at the Harvest Festival Parade which was held at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 10/31/42
Some of the evacuees who participated in the Harvest Festival Parade held at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 10/31/42
Two of the participants of the Harvest Festival parade, which was witnessed by a large crowd of the residents at this relocation
center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 10/31/42
The Harvest Day Festival parade.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 10/31/42
A scene at the Harvest Festival held at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 10/31/42
Harvest day festival concessionary.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 10/31/42
A scene at the Harvest Festival held at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 10/31/42
Harvest day festival. An artist sketches one of the festive throng in the concessionary.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 10/31/42
Two of the evacuees who participated in the Harvest Festival Parade which was held at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 10/31/42
Farm workers who participated in the Harvest Festival Parade held at this relocation center. Their hats were fashioned from
turnips.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 10/31/42
Two of the participants in the Harvest Festival Parade. Note the large crowd in the background that witnessed this parade.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 10/31/42
Part of the evacuees who participated in the Harvest Festival Parade at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 10/31/42
Part of the High School group that participated in the Harvest Festival Parade at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 10/31/42
Two of the Nursery School children who participated in the Harvest Festival Parade held at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 10/31/42
Three costumes that were worn in the Harvest Festival Parade held at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 10/31/42
A sixth grade pupil in the classroom. Miss Mae Hert is the teacher.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/3/42
Sixth grade pupils in the classroom. Miss Mae Hert is the teacher.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/3/42
A sixth grade pupil in the classroom. Miss Mae Hert is the teacher.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/3/42
Sixth grade pupils in the classroom. Miss Mae Hert is the teacher.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/3/42
Low fifth grade pupils and their teacher, Mrs. Rhoda McGarva, outside the barracks school room.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/3/42
The boys of the lower fifth grade, taught by Mrs. Rhoda McGarva, shown here are choosing sides for games.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/3/42
These boys of the low fifth grade, taught by Mrs. Rhoda McGarva, are playing Cock Fight.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/3/42
These girls of the low fifth grade, taught by Mrs. Rhoda McGarva, are here shown playing Two Deep.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/3/42
A view showing the artistic way in which the evacuees decorate the exterior of the barracks to make them more homelike.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/3/42
A view showing the way in which the evacuees decorate the exterior of the barracks to make them more homelike.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/3/42
A view down one of the streets of this relocation center, showing the artistic way in which the evacuees decorate the exterior
of their barracks to make them more homelike.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/3/42
A close up of hogs feeding at the temporary location of the hog farm at this center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
A view of hogs on the temporary hog farm at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
A view of hogs at the temporary hog farm.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
A close up of hogs feeding at the temporary location of the hog farm at this center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
A close up of hogs eating garbage at the temporary location of the hog farm. The garbage is brought to the farm by truck from
the center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
A close up of hogs eating garbage at the temporary location of the hog farm. The garbage is brought to the farm by truck from
the center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
A close up of hogs feeding at the temporary location of the hog farm at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
A close up of hogs eating garbage at the temporary location of the hog farm. The garbage is brought to the farm by trucks
from the center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
A close up of hogs eating garbage at the temporary location of the hog farm. The garbage is brought to the farm by trucks
from the center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
A close up of hogs eating garbage at the temporary location of the hog farm. The garbage is brought to the farm by trucks
from the center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
A close up of evacuees feeding garbage from the center to the hogs at the temporary location of the hog farm.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
A close up of hogs eating garbage at the temporary location of the hog farm. The garbage is brought to the farm by trucks
from the center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
A close up of hogs eating garbage at the temporary location of the hog farm. The garbage is brought to the farm by truck from
the center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
A view of hogs at the temporary hog farm at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
A close up of a garbage truck from the center which is used to bring garbage to the hogs at the temporary location of the
hog farm.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
A view of hogs eating garbage which was brought to them by a truck from the center. This hog farm is in a temporary location.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
Evacuees unloading a truck load of garbage at the temporary hog farm.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
Truck loads of garbage from the center are brought to the hogs at the temporary hog farm.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
A view showing the hogs at the temporary hog farm at this center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
Two of the many hogs at the temporary hog farm at this center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
One of the barracks at this center which is used for a high school. As yet the students haven't decided on a name for the
school.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
One of the barracks at this center which is used for a high school. As yet, the students haven't decided on a name for the
school.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/3/42
Evacuee farmers loading a truck with potatoes from the farm at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/5/42
Evacuee farmers loading a truck with recently dug potatoes at the farm at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/5/42
An evacuee farmer ready to put a sack of newly dug potatoes on the truck at the farm at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/5/42
Sacks which are being filled with newly dug potatoes by evacuee farmers at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/5/42
Crew harvesting potatoes.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 12/4/42
View of wild geese on farm. These geese, which are protected by game laws, cause hundreds of dollars of damage to the crops.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 12/4/42
View of wild geese on farm. These geese, which are protected by game laws, cause hundreds of dollars of damage to the crops.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 12/4/42
View of farm.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 12/4/42
Two women of Japanese ancestry pause from their potato harvesting to pose for this picture.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/5/42
Evacuee farmers filling sacks with newly dug potatoes at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/5/42
Evacuee farmers filling sacks with newly dug potatoes on the farm at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/5/42
Potatoes on the farm at this relocation center dug by a mechanical digger pulled by a tractor.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/5/42
Evacuee farmers at this relocation center filling sacks with newly dug potatoes.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/5/42
Evacuee farmers at this relocation center filling sacks with newly dug potatoes.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/5/42
Evacuee farmers at this relocation center filling sacks with newly dug potatoes.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/5/42
Potatoes on the farm at this relocation center are dug by a mechanical digger pulled by a tractor--then sacked by evacuee
farmers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/5/42
Evacuee farmers on their way to the fields at this relocation center to harvest potatoes.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/5/42
A group of evacuee farmers warming their hands over a bonfire before they start harvesting potatoes.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/5/42
Artist at Fair. Harvest Festival.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 10/31/42
Harvest Festival crowds.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 10/31/42
Harvest Festival crowds.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 10/31/42
Harvest Festival crowds.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 10/31/42
Artist at fair.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 10/31/42
Harvest Festival crowds.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 10/31/42
Cabaret Internationale evacuee show.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/1/42
Woodie Ichihashi band.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/1/42
Drummer in Woodie Ichihashi band. George Sumida, Sacramento.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/1/42
Ziegfield number in Cabaret Internationale program.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/1/42
Entertainers at the Cabaret Internationale Program held at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/1/42
Yuki Shimoda does an imitation of Carmen Miranda's Mama Yo Quiero at the Cabaret Internationale Program held at this center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/1/42
Nursery school children playing house.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/2/42
Home made toilets for nursery school children.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/2/42
Nursery school children singing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/2/42
Nursery school children singing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/2/42
Nursery school children singing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/2/42
Little nursery school girl singing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/2/42
Nursery school children with model barracks.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/2/42
A general view of the office of the Tulean Dispatch.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/2/42
Evacuee artists who work on the Tulean Dispatch. (L to R) Dick Kurihara, Martha Mizuguchi, Mas Inada.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/2/42
Evacuees working at the city desk of the Tulean Dispatch.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/2/42
Absentee voters of Japanese descent getting ballots and having them notarized.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/2/42
Mary Oshiro of the Tulean Dispatch Staff cuts a Japanese stencil. Former occupation: clerk. Former residence: Sacramento.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/2/42
Absentee voters of Japanese descent getting ballots and having them notarized.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/2/42
Notarizing and getting absentee ballot. Alice Fujinaga, formerly of Seattle, Washington.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/2/42
Absentee voters of Japanese descent getting ballots and having them notarized.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/2/42
View in grammar school at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
View in grammar school at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
View in grammar school at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
A view in grammar school at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
World History and English, a two hour class taught by Mrs. Hanny Billigmei.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
Arthur Ramey, supervisor of student teachers in counselor's room.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
Seventh grade pupils in one of the school rooms at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
Seventh grade pupils at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
The Seventh Grade in Barracks 6602-B.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 11/4/42
Joe Hayes, Assistant Project Director.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 12/5/42
Joe Hayes, Assistant Project Director.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 12/5/42
Elva Shinozaki. Present occupation: stenographer. Former occupation: stenographer. Former residence: Seattle, Washington.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/28/43
Elva Shinozaki. Present occupation: stenographer. Former occupation: stenographer. Former residence: Seattle, Washington.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/28/43
Haru Uno. Present occupation: stenographer. Former occupation: stenographer. Former residence: Loomis, California.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/28/43
Housing Staff group . . . Frank Smith in charge.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/28/43
Hana Uyeno, Filing Clerk.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/28/43
Hana Uyeno, Filing Clerk.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/28/43
Mortimer Cook. In charge of Transportation Department. (Guess why this pix was taken)
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/28/43
Mortimer Cook. In charge of Transportation Department. (Guess why this pix was taken)
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/28/43
Margaret Ito, cashier. Former occupation: cashier. Former residence: Portland, Oregon.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/29/43
Margaret Ito. Present occupation: cashier. Former occupation: cashier. Former residence: Portland, Oregon.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/29/43
View of barracks looking east down the main fire break.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/29/43
Alex Mayeda. Present occupation: warehouseman. Former occupation: student. Former residence: Sacramento, California.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/29/43
Tom Yamaoka. Present occupation: truck driver. Former occupation: lumber mill worker. Former residence: Enumclaw, California.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/29/43
Exterior views of the motor pool and gas station. This motor pool is used as a checking station for all vehicles used on the
project.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/30/43
Exterior views of the motor pool and gas station. This motor pool is used as a checking station for all vehicles used on the
project.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/30/43
Evacuee blacksmiths do all the blacksmith work necessary in the garage, at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/30/43
Evacuee blacksmiths do all the blacksmith work necessary in the garage, at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/30/43
Frank K. Mizuni, former garage owner and mechanic, from Auburn, Washington, welds a radiator in the local garage, at this
War Relocation Authority center. All repair work on the cars, trucks, tractors, and other vehicles is done by evacuee workers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/30/43
An expert job of motor repairing is done on a heavy truck by garage mechanics. All repair work on cars, trucks, tractors,
and other motor vehicles is done by evacuee mechanics.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/30/43
The treads on a caterpillar tractor are repaired by local mechanics. All repair work on cars, trucks, tractors, and other
motor vehicles is done by evacuee workers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/30/43
A view in the paint shop in the garage, at this relocation center. All repair work on cars, trucks, and other motor vehicles
is done by evacuee labor.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/30/43
Mechanics check parts and tools from the tool room, in the garage, at this relocation center. All repair work on cars, trucks,
and other motor vehicles is done by evacuee labor.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/30/43
A pleasant Sunday afternoon's recreation is spent by evacuee winter sports enthusiasts, on the slopes of Castle Mountain.
Home made sleds and various other home made pieces of equipment were used by these young people.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/31/43
A pleasant Sunday afternoon's recreation is spent by evacuee winter sports enthusiasts, on the slopes of Castle Mountain.
Home made sleds and various other home made pieces of equipment were used by these young people.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/31/43
A pleasant Sunday afternoon's recreation is spent by evacuee winter sports enthusiasts, on the slopes of Castle Mountain.
Home made sleds and various other home made pieces of equipment were used by these young people.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/31/43
A pleasant Sunday afternoon's recreation is spent by evacuee winter sports enthusiasts, on the slopes of Castle Mountain.
Home made sleds and various other home made pieces of equipment were used by these young people.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/31/43
Evacuee members of the Fire Department brave the cold weather to have a practice drill.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/3/43
Evacuee members of the Fire Department brave the cold weather to have a practice drill.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/3/43
The evacuee firemen spend their recreation moments, as do all firemen, by playing a good old American game of cards.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/3/43
Granary storage buildings, which are used to store feed for the poultry farm.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/2/43
Granary storage buildings, which are used to store feed for the poultry farm.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/2/43
A view in the slaughter house and butcher shop. Hogs, which are grown in the evacuee run hog farm, are slaughtered here, for
consumption by the residents of the center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/2/43
A view in the slaughter house and butcher shop. Hogs, which are grown in the evacuee run hog farm, are slaughtered here, for
consumption by the residents of the center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/2/43
A view in the slaughter house and butcher shop. Hogs, which are grown in the evacuee run hog farm, are slaughtered here, for
consumption by the residents of the center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/2/43
A view in the slaughter house and butcher shop. Hogs, which are grown in the evacuee run hog farm, are slaughtered here, for
consumption by the residents of the center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/2/43
Great care is given the baby pigs at the hog farm here. Evacuee workers jealously guard the health of these animals, realizing
that later on, this will mean more pork chops for the residents of the center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/2/43
Great care is given the baby pigs at the hog farm here. Evacuee workers jealously guard the health of these animals, realizing
that later on, this will mean more pork chops for the residents of the center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/2/43
Great care is given the baby pigs at the hog farm here. Evacuee workers jealously guard the health of these animals, realizing
that later on, this will mean more pork chops for the residents of the center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/2/43
Evacuee workers unload coal at Staley Junction, which is the rail head for this center. This coal is used by the residents
during the extremely cold winters which northern California offers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/2/43
Evacuee workers unload coal at Staley Junction, which is the rail head for this center. This coal is used by the residents
during the extremely cold winters which northern California offers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/2/43
Evacuee workers unload coal at Staley Junction, which is the rail head for this center. This coal is used by the residents
during the extremely cold winters which northern California offers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/2/43
Evacuee workers unload coal at Staley Junction, which is the rail head for this center. This coal is used by the residents
during the extremely cold winters which northern California offers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/2/43
Evacuee workers unload coal at Staley Junction, which is the rail head for this center. This coal is used by the residents
during the extremely cold winters which northern California offers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/2/43
Evacuee workers unload coal at Staley Junction, which is the rail head for this center. This coal is used by the residents
during the extremely cold winters which northern California offers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/2/43
Thaws turn the streets and fire breaks into seas of mud, and makes difficult motor transportation through the center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/2/43
Thaws turn the streets and fire breaks into seas of mud, and makes difficult motor transportation through the center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/2/43
Thaws turn the streets and fire breaks into seas of mud, and makes difficult motor transportation through the center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/2/43
A complaint is filed, by a resident of this War Relocation Authority center, at the Warden's Office.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/3/43
An evacuee warden inspects flashlight equipment, which is supplied to wardens for their night duty. This equipment is checked
out only when wardens go on duty.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/3/43
A winter time view of the central heating plant, which supplies the Tule Lake Hospital with heat and the necessary hot water.
The snowy hill in the background is Castle Mountain.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/28/43
A winter time scene looking east down the main fire break.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/28/43
A wintry view, showing fire department No. 1 on the right with the hospital in the background.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/28/43
A wintry view of early construction work on the Tule Lake schools. All work is being done by evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/28/43
This photo shows friends wishing bon voyage to a group of 11 evacuees who were leaving the center. Of this group, four were
transfers to the Central Utah project, and the other seven were students and workers going out on indefinite leave.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/28/43
A large group of friends wish bon voyage to a group of eleven evacuees, who are leaving the center. Of this group, seven were
students and workers going out on indefinite leave, and the other four were transferred to the Central Utah Project. Mixed
emotions were displayed as these people boarded the bus.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/28/43
Mixed emotions are displayed by this group of friends and well wishers, who gathered to wish gods speed to a group of eleven
evacuees, who were leaving the center. Of this group, four were transfers to the Central Utah Project, and the other seven
were students and workers going out on indefinite leave. This photo shows that not all people of Japanese ancestry are stoical.
Note the girl on the left crying.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/28/43
Quick work, by the evacuee fire department, kept the fire which broke out in the office located at the old hog farm from doing
other than minor damage.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/28/43
Quick work, by the evacuee fire department, kept the fire which broke out in the office located at the old hog farm, from
doing other than minor damage.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/28/43
A large iron stove is enjoyed on cold winter days by the evacuee workers in the motor pool.
Photographer: Parker, Tom
Newell, California. 1/30/43
All vehicles, whether used by the Administrative Staff or evacuee workers, must be checked out at the motor pool, where accurate
checks are kept on the use and mileage. This photo shows a resident employee signing out a sedan for official use within the
project area.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 1/30/43
The staff of firemen at Fire Station No. 1. The two girls in the center, are the Mascots of the group, and are the stenographers
who work in their office.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/1/43
A group of firemen from Fire Department No. 1 proudly display their fire equipment.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/1/43
Pupils in the Activities Class at the Rim Rock school enjoy diversified fields of training. The two boys in the background
are painting on a mural, which is entirely conceived and executed by themselves. Mrs. Eva Adams is the instructor in this
third grade class.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/2/43
A group picture of all the wardens at this War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/3/43
A group picture, showing supervisors and field supervisors from the warden's office, at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/3/43
A group of four supervisors, who direct the activities of the rest of the wardens. Evacuee wardens patrol the relocation center
24 hours a day, and are responsible for the maintenance of law and order.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/3/43
A group of 19 newspapermen, wire service, and news reel cameramen, and representatives of OWI visited the Tule Lake Relocation
Center. This was the first inspection tour granted the press.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/26/43
Harry Makino, manager of the Tule Lake poultry farm, is shown talking to Clarence Zimmer, in charge of agriculture and industry
at this project, in the office at the poultry farm.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/24/43
S. Uyeda, evacuee from Auburn, Washington, is shown gathering eggs on the poultry farm here. Uyeda owned his own poultry business
which consisted of 2,000 chickens. He operated this farm for 10 years.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/24/43
S. Uyeda, evacuee from Auburn, Washington, is shown gathering eggs on the poultry farm here. Uyeda owned his own poultry business
which consisted of 2,000 chickens. He operated this farm for 10 years.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/24/43
S. Uyeda, evacuee from Auburn, Washington, is shown gathering eggs on the poultry farm here. Uyeda owned his own poultry business
which consisted of 2,000 chickens. He operated this farm for 10 years.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/24/43
M. Iseri is shown feeding baby bronze turkeys on the poultry farm here. For 26 years he owned and operated a 60 acre turkey
farm at Marysville, California.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/24/43
M. Iseri is shown feeding baby bronze turkeys on the poultry farm here. For 26 years he owned and operated a 60 acre turkey
farm at Marysville, California.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/24/43
A general view of the hog farm at the Tule Lake Relocation Center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/24/43
A general view of the poultry farm at the Tule Lake Relocation Center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/24/43
Harry Makino, manager of the Tule Lake poultry farm, is shown talking to Clarence Zimmer, in charge of agriculture and industry
at this project, in the office of the poultry farm.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/24/43
Seed potato cutting at the cutting sheds of the Tule Lake Relocation Center farm. 7,500 sacks of potatoes will be cut by the
48 workers in 2-1/2 weeks. This will be enough seeds to plant the 600 acres.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/24/43
Seed potato cutting at the cutting sheds of the Tule Lake Relocation Center farm. 7,500 sacks of potatoes will be cut by the
48 workers in 2-1/2 weeks. This will be enough seeds to plant the 600 acres.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/24/43
Seed potato cutting at the cutting sheds of the Tule Lake Relocation Center farm. 7,500 sacks of potatoes will be cut by the
48 workers in 2-1/2 weeks. This will be enough seeds to plant the 600 acres.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/24/43
Seed potato cutting at the cutting sheds of the Tule Lake Relocation Center farm. 7,500 sacks of potatoes will be cut by the
48 workers in 2-1/2 weeks. This will be enough seeds to plant the 600 acres.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/24/43
Seed potato cutting at the cutting sheds of the Tule Lake Relocation Center farm. 7,500 sacks of potatoes will be cut by the
48 workers in 2-1/2 weeks. This will be enough seeds to plant the 600 acres.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/24/43
Man feeding baby chicks.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/24/43
Seed potato cutting at the cutting sheds of the Tule Lake Relocation Center farm. 7,500 sacks of potatoes will be cut by the
48 workers in 2-1/2 weeks. This will be enough seeds to plant the 600 acres.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/24/43
Seed potato cutting at the cutting sheds of the Tule Lake Relocation Center farm. 7,500 sacks of potatoes will be cut by the
48 workers in 2-1/2 weeks. This will be enough seeds to plant the 600 acres.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/24/43
Seed potato cutting at the cutting sheds of the Tule Lake Relocation Center farm. 7,500 sacks of potatoes will be cut by the
48 workers in 2-1/2 weeks. This will be enough seeds to plant the 600 acres.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/24/43
Newspaper reporters and cameramen, newsreel cameramen, representatives from the West Coast OWI office, and wire service reporters
visited the Tule Lake Relocation Center to make an on the spot inspection of this camp . This was the first such inspection
permitted the press.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/26/43
Newsreel cameramen and newspaper cameramen from the San Francisco newspapers photograph potato planting on the farm at the
Tule Lake Relocation Center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/26/43
Frank Vail, Cameraman for Pathe, photographs home life in one of the evacuee apartments.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/26/43
Hermie Bryant, Cameraman for the San Francisco News, pictures evacuee actors making-up before putting on a stage show.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/26/43
Cameramen from the San Francisco newspapers photograph potato planting.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/26/43
Robert Cozzens, field director of the WRA, discusses potato planting with one of the evacuee farmers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/26/43
Gertrude Michaelove, member of the West Coast OWI office, takes field notes on living conditions at the Tule Lake Relocation
Center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/26/43
Cameramen from the San Francisco newspapers picture life at a relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/26/43
Peter O'Crotty, photographer for OWI overseas, pictures actors making-up before putting on a stage show.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/26/43
Joe Rucker, newsreel cameraman for Paramount Pictures, changes film reels on the potato farm. Rucker spent several days picturing
relocation center life.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/26/43
Newspaper cameramen from the San Francisco newspapers photograph a general view of the Tule Lake Relocation Center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/26/43
Carl Bigelow, cameraman from the Oakland Tribune, photographs a general view of The Tule Lake Relocation Center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 5/26/43
Tule Lake, Calif.--Construction begins on a War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry near Tule Lake
in Modoc County, California, south of the Oregon border.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Calif.--Construction begins on a War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry near Tule Lake
in Modoc County, California, just south of the Oregon border.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Calif.--Construction begins on a War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry near Tule Lake
in Modoc County, California, just south of the Oregon border.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tulelake, Calif.--Douglas Puckett and George M. Smith, Tulelake farmers.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Klamath Falls, Oregon--Beauford Hayden, Supt. Klamath Reclamation Project, pointing to a chart showing the location of the
site selected for the Tule Lake War Relocation Authority center, just south of the Oregon border, for housing 10,000 evacuees
of Japanese ancestry.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/?/42
Tulelake, Calif.--A. A. Rodenberger, Mayor of Tulelake.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/?/42
Tulelake, Calif.--Edwin Davis, Editor of The Tulelake Reporter.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/?/42
Tule Lake, Calif.--Bird's-eye view of site of a War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry near Tule
Lake in Modoc County, California, south of the Oregon border.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tulelake, Calif.--A. A. Rodenberger, Mayor of Tulelake.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tulelake, Calif.--Geo. M. Smith, Tulelake farmer.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/?/42
Tulelake, Calif.--C. V. Sommerville, a Tulelake farmer.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/?/42
Raymond R. Best, Tule Lake Center Director.
Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru
Newell, California. 7/?/43
Tulelake, Calif.--H. E. Dickson, President of the Tulelake Chamber of Commerce.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/27/42
Klamath Falls, Oregon--Frank Jenkins of the Klamath Falls News and the Klamath Falls Herald.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/?/42
Klamath Falls, Oregon--Earl C. Reynolds, Executive Secretary of the Klamath Falls Chamber of Commerce.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/?/42
Klamath Falls, Oregon--L. L. Low, Sheriff of Klamath Falls.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/?/42
Evacuee firemen spend much of their time in checking equipment and training themselves in fire fighting techniques. The crew
of Fire Department No. 2 are readying their fire fighting apparatus.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/3/43
S. Kanda, poultry caretaker and former oyster worker from Olympia, Washington, tends baby chicks at the poultry farm.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/2/43
Harry Makino, General Manager of the poultry farm, and former farmer from Sacramento, California, is shown with some eighteen
day old baby chicks. The chickens grown at this poultry farm will furnish the residents with all the eggs and chicken meat
that will be consumed.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/2/43
Eighteen day old chicks which were grown at the poultry farm at this War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/2/43
M. Nakamura, poultry caretaker, and former farmer of Sacramento, California, feeds four months old chickens. It is anticipated
that the chickens grown here will furnish the residents of the project with all the eggs and chicken meat which will be consumed.
These chickens were raised from baby chicks.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/2/43
An exterior view of one of the buildings which house the chickens during the winter months. All poultry at this center have
been raised from baby chicks, and it is expected that these chickens will supply all the eggs and chickens consumed on the
project.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/2/43
A general view, showing buildings which house the chickens during the winter months, on the evacuee run poultry farm.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 2/2/43
K. Kubo, farmer-evacuee from Clarksburg, California, putting white onion seeds in onion planter. Each planter can plant 15
acres of the 100 acres which are set aside for the growing of onions.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Proud Mrs. Kumiko Noda, 23, evacuee from Florin, California, holds her new son, Newell Kazuo Noda.
Baby Newell arrived at 6:12 A.M., Sunday, June 12, and was the first child born at this War Relocation Authority center for
evacuees of Japanese descent.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Kiyo Kobayashi, R.N., exhibits Newell Kazuo Noda, first baby born at this War Relocation Authority
center on Sunday, June 12, 1942, at 6:12 A.M. Little Newell's family, Mr. and Mrs. George Noda, lived at Florin, California,
prior to evacuation.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Lillian Hiraike, 18, evacuee from Seattle, Washington, shows a sweater to a prospective buyer in
the general store at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake--Newell, Calif.--A view showing part of the crowd at general store no. 1 at this War Relocation Authority center
where evacuees of Japanese descent are spending the duration.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Shinkichi Kiyono, 56, evacuee from Longview, Washington, exhibits the cabinet which won for him
first prize (a carpenter's plane) in a furniture building contest. All pieces of furniture were made from scrap lumber.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Four little evacuees from Sacramento, California, read comic books in the newsstand at this War
Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese descent.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Cabinet worker's saw is expertly used by Jime Kabayashi, 62, on the interior construction of general
store no. 2 at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese descent. Jime, prior to evacuation, had resided
in Sacramento for 24 years and has been a carpenter for 42 years.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--A potato warehouse used to store and cut seed potatoes by evacuee-farmer s at this War Relocation
Authority center. Note that earth has been thrown over the side of the building. This protects the seed potatoes from frost
and heat.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--A view showing evacuee farmers cutting seed potatoes in the cutting house at this War Relocation
Authority center .
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
A crew of four feeding rotary planters seeding 500 acres at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese
ancestry.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
A view showing evacuee farmers cutting seed potatoes in the cutting house at this War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Evacuee-farmers sorting seed potatoes in the seed storage warehouse at this War Relocation Authority
center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Three evacuee workers exhibit the tags given them in conjunction with the first pay day at this
War Relocation Authority center. Evacuee workers are paid every month for their labors. The group are: (left to right) Ben
Kasubuchi, block manager of block 14; Tomijira Maekawa, block manager of block 5; and Yoshio Saiki who does guide work.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--May Minyamoto, executive clerk, and Hyrum L. Clark, project personnel clerk, distribute identification
tags to be used in conjunction with the first pay day at this War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell Calif.--A line up of evacuee workers waiting for their identification tags which are to be used in conjunction
with the first pay day at this War Relocation Authority Center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Shinkichi Kiyono, 56, carpenter-evacuee from Longview, Washington, is shown using a carpenter's
plane which he won as first prize in a furniture contest among the evacuees of Japanese descent at this War Relocation Authority
center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Kendall Smith, Assistant Supervisor of Community Enterprises, on left and Mortimer Cooke, Supervisor
of Community Enterprises, on right, assist John Ito, store manager, in arranging stock at the Community Store No. 1.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, -Newell, Calif.--A panoramic view of this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.-- Maye Ikemoto, 5, evacuee from Sacramento, California, takes a ride on the teeter-totter at the
nursery school for children at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese descent.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Mortimer Cooke, Supervisor of Community Enterprises, enjoys the first hair-cut given in the barber
shop at this War Relocation Authority center. Frances Imura, evacuee from Sacramento is the barber.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
John Matsumoto, 28, former tenant farmer from Staten Island Land Company San Joaquin County, California, puts seed peas in
pea drill. Twenty acres of peas are now being planted at the relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, -Newell, Calif.--A view showing evacuee farmers cutting seed potatoes in the cutting house at this War Relocation
Authority center.
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--A potato warehouse used to store and cut seed potatoes by the evacuee farmers at this War Relocation
Authority center. Note that earth has been thrown over the side of the building. This protects the seed potatoes from frost
and heat.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake--Newell, Calif.--A group of nursery school children take a ride in a home-made wagon. This wagon was made by evacuee-craftsmen
at this War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Five little nursery school try out the slide in the playground at this War Relocation Authority
center. All playground equipment was built from scrap lumber by evacuee-craftsmen.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.-- A view showing the recently completed Store No. 2 at this War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--A view of Selective Service registration headquarters where 420 youths of 18 to 20 signed up in
the latest draft registration.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 6/30/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--A view of Selective Service registration headquarters where 420 youths of 18 to 20 signed up in
the latest draft registration.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 6/30/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--A view of Selective Service registration headquarters where 420 youths of 18 to 20 signed up in
the latest draft registration.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 6/30/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--A view of Selective Service registration headquarters where 420 youths of 18 to 20 signed up in
the latest draft registration.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 6/30/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--A panorama view of this War Relocation Authority project where evacuees of Japanese descent are
spending the duration.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Loading seed potatoes onto a feed rotary potato planter on the 500-acre farm at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees
of Japanese ancestry.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--A view of evacuee farmers at work on a semi-automatic-feeding, rotary potato planter.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Potatoes are planted in the rich black earth by crews of evacuee farmers at the relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Evacuees distribute scrap lumber to each block. This scrap will be used by the residents to construct
furniture for their apartments and also for firewood.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.-- K. Kubo, evacuee-farmer from Clarksburg, Calif., putting onion seed in an automatic planter. Each
machine can plant about fifteen acres of white onions a day.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
A tractor disk is used to cover potatoes which had not been planted to sufficient depth. This practice is not generally necessary
as adjustments were later made on the planting machines.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.-- Seed potatoes are placed in the rich black earth by this evacuee farmer crew on the farm near
this War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.-- George Nakanishi, 25, evacuee farmer from Isleton, California, operates a gas pump as a farm grease
unit at the scene of potato planting at this War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
K. Fukushima, 38, farmer-evacuee from Clarksburg, California, adjusts the flow of seed potatoes on a feeding rotary potato
planter . Five hundred acres of potatoes are being planted on this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
A view of general store No. 1 at the relocation center.
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--An exterior view of the General Store No. 1.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
A view of the bank and newsstand at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. The bank is open
on Tuesdays and Fridays only.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Calif.-- A panoramic view of the agricultural land which will be cultivated by evacuee farmers at this War Relocation
Authority center. Tule Lake is shown in the background. (See also C-53, C-54, and C-55 for complete panorama.)
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Calif.-- A panoramic view of the agricultural land which will be cultivated by evacuee farmers at this War Relocation
Authority center. Tule Lake is shown in the background. (See also C-52, C-54, and C-55 for complete panorama).
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Evacuees distribute scrap lumber to each block. This scrap will be used by the residents to construct
furniture for their apartments and also for firewood.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Calif.-- A panoramic view of the agricultural land which will be cultivated by evacuee farmers at this War Relocation
Authority center. Tule Lake is shown in the background. (See also C-53, C-52, and C-55 for complete panorama).
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Evacuees distribute scrap lumber to each block. This scrap will be used by the residents to construct
furniture for their apartments and also for firewood.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Calif.-- A panoramic view of the agricultural land which will be cultivated by evacuee farmers at this War Relocation
Authority center. Tule Lake is shown in the background. (See also C-52, C-53, and C-54 for complete panorama).
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Calif.-- A panoramic view showing site of Tule Lake War Relocation Authority center. (See also nos. C-57, C-58,
and C-59 for complete panorama.)
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.-- A dredge is used to dig a drainage ditch on the farm at this War Relocation Authority center.
As this picture shows, water is found only a few feet under the surface of the earth.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Calif.-- A panoramic view showing site of Tule Lake War Relocation Authority center. (See also nos. C-56, C-58,
and C-59 for complete panorama.)
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Seed potatoes are brought to the 500 acre farm at this War Relocation Authority Center by truck and are then loaded into a
feed rotary potato planter.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Calif.-- A panoramic view showing site of Tule Lake War Relocation Authority center. (See also nos. C-56, C-57,
and C-59 for complete panorama.)
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
A crew operating an onion planter on the evacuee farm near the relocation center. Each onion planter can seed about 15 acres
of white onions per day.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--K. Kubo, evacuee farmer from Clarksburg, California, putting onion seed in an automatic planter.
Each machine can plant about fifteen acres of white onions a day.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Calif.-- A panoramic view showing site of Tule Lake War Relocation Authority center. (See also nos. C-56, C-57,
and C-58 for complete panorama.)
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Nancy Motomatsu, 11, chooses a package of Petunia seed from the assortment in the general store
at this War Relocation Authority center. Nancy, prior to evacuation, attended the seventh grade at Woodenville, Washington.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Two evacuee crews are shown operating onion planters on the farm at this War Relocation Authority
center. Each planter can seed about fifteen acres of white onion per day.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Calif.-- A panoramic view showing a portion of the site for Tule Lake War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
A panoramic view showing a portion of the site for the Tule Lake War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Jimmy Inahara, 24, farmer-evacuee from Stockton, California, operates a tractor on the farm at
this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
A panoramic view showing a portion of the site for the Tule Lake War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Jimmy Inahara, 24, farmer-evacuee from Stockton, California, operates a tractor on the farm at
this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.-- Foster Goss, associate information specialist, and Edwin Bates, Chief of the Information Division,
interview evacuee-farmers on the farm at this War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
A panoramic view showing a portion of the site for the Tule Lake War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.-- Evacuee crew is shown operating a pea drill on the farm at this War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
A panoramic view showing a portion of the site for the Tule Lake War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Albers, Clem
Newell, California. 4/23/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--This group of evacuees have just arrived at this War Relocation Authority center and are being
assigned quarters and bedding.
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Evacuee-farmer operating a semi-automatic-feeding, rotary potato planter on the project farm at
this War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Four crews of potato farmers drop seed potatoes in the rich black soil on the evacuee farm near this War Relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
This picture shows the method used by the evacuee farmer crews in placing seed potatoes in the semi-automatic potato planters.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--A crew of evacuee-farmers planting potatoes with a semi-automatic-feeding, rotary potato planter
on the project farm at this War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Three crews of potato planters drop seed potatoes in the rich black soil on the evacuee farm near
this War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake,-Newell, Calif.--This picture shows the method used by the evacuee farmer crews in placing seed potatoes in the
semi-automatic potato planters at this War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Planting time at the Tule Lake Relocation Center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Isaac Sakuma, 18, evacuee farmer from Mt. Vernon, Washington, inspects the mechanism of a Pick
potato planter.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Loading a potato planter with sacks of seed potatoes while the evacuee crew relaxes between rounds
of planting.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--John Matsumoto, 28, evacuee truck farmer from the Staten Island Company in San Joaquin, California,
putting seed peas in a pea drill at this War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/1/42
A view of turnips lying in the field where evacuee farmers have placed them for the pickup crews. This photograph shows the
tremendous size of these quick grown turnips.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Harvesting spinach.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Harvesting turnips.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Harvesting spinach.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Harvesting turnips.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Harvesting spinach.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Harvesting spinach on the farm at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/7/42
Harvesting spinach.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Harvesting turnips.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Harvesting spinach.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
An evacuee farmer takes time out from harvesting spinach to take a refreshing drink of water.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Harvesting spinach.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Harvesting turnips.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Harvesting turnips.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Harvesting turnips.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Evacuee farm hands irrigate the crops at the farm on this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/10/42
Evacuee spinach harvesters take time out from their work to have a refreshing drink of water.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Harvesting turnips.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
A view in the lunch shed at the farm. Trucks from the kitchens bring hot lunches to the workers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
A view in the lunch shed at the farm. Trucks from the kitchens bring hot lunches to the workers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
A view in the lunch shed at the farm. Trucks from the kitchens bring hot lunches to the workers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
A view in the lunch shed at the farm. Trucks from the kitchens bring hot lunches to the workers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
During the noon hour, evacuee farm workers fish for carp in a nearby slough.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
During the noon hour, evacuee farm workers fish for carp in a nearby slough.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
A view in the lunch shed at the farm. Trucks from the kitchens bring hot lunches to the workers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
A view in the lunch shed at the farm. Trucks from the kitchens bring hot lunches to the workers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
A view in the lunch shed at the farm. Trucks from the kitchens bring hot lunches to the workers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
A view in the lunch shed at the farm. Trucks from the kitchens bring hot lunches to the workers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
A view in the lunch shed at the farm at this relocation center. Trucks from the kitchens bring hot lunches to the workers
in the fields.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
A view in the lunch shed at the farm. Trucks from the kitchens bring hot lunches to the workers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
A view in the lunch shed at the farm. Trucks from the kitchens bring hot lunches to the workers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
A view in the lunch shed at the farm. Trucks from the kitchens bring hot lunches to the workers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
A view in the lunch shed at the farm. Trucks from the kitchens bring hot lunches to the workers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
A view in the lunch shed at the farm. Trucks from the kitchens bring hot lunches to the workers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
A view in the lunch shed at the farm. Trucks from the kitchens bring hot lunches to the workers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
A view in the lunch shed at the farm. Trucks from the kitchens bring hot lunches to the workers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Bobby Kaneko, 4. Little Bobby wears a head dress which was part of his costume in the Labor day Parade. His nursery school
class used the theme of Mary, Mary Quite Contrary, and Bobby was one of Mary's little flowers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/7/42
Drawing time in the nursery school.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Nursery school children pause for refreshments of graham crackers and milk.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/10/42
Three little nursery school children in costumes worn in the Labor Day parade. The little girl in the center recites Mary,
Mary Quite Contrary. The two other children are her flowers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/7/42
Art time in the nursery school at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/7/42
Clever costumes worn by the nursery school children during the Labor Day celebration.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/7/42
Milk and cracker time in the nursery school.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
This view shows an irrigation ditch which supplies the water for the farm run by evacuee workers at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
A view of the farm at this relocation center, showing the tremendous acreage and crops grown by evacuee workers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Harvesting turnips.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
A view of the farm at this relocation center, showing the tremendous acreage and crops grown by evacuee workers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
A view of the farm at this War Relocation Authority center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
A view of the farm at this relocation center, showing the tremendous acreage and crops grown by evacuee workers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Harvesting spinach.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Harvesting turnips.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Harvesting spinach.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Harvesting spinach.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Evacuee workers in the packing shed, sorting and packing turnips which have been grown on the farm near this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Making crates in the packing shed. These crates are used to ship evacuee grown vegetables to other relocation centers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Evacuee workers in the packing shed, sorting and packing turnips which have been grown on the farm near this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Washing vegetables in the packing shed prior to their shipment.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Washing vegetables in the packing shed prior to their shipment.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
A truck load of turnips from the field, being unloaded at the packing shed where they are sorted and packed.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Washing vegetables in the packing shed prior to their shipment.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Crates of vegetables from the evacuee farm being loaded in a refrigerated rail car for shipment to other evacuee centers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Evacuee workers in the packing shed, sorting and packing turnips which have been grown on the farm near this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Making crates in the packing shed. These crates are used to ship evacuee grown vegetables to other relocation centers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
View showing the half burned community store. The fire which destroyed this building occurred in the middle of the night and
for a while threatened adjacent buildings. It was promptly brought under control by the efficient work of the volunteer fire
department.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
View showing the half burned community store. The fire which destroyed this building occurred in the middle of the night and
for a while threatened adjacent buildings. It was promptly brought under control by the efficient work of the volunteer fire
department.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
A view of the farm at this relocation center, showing the tremendous acreage and superb crops grown by evacuee workers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
A view of the farm at this relocation center, showing the tremendous acreage and superb crops grown by evacuee workers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
A view of the farm at this relocation center, showing the tremendous acreage and superb crops grown by evacuee workers.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Harvesting spinach.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Harvesting turnips.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Harvesting turnips.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
This view shows an irrigation ditch which supplies the water for the farm run by evacuee workers at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Harvesting spinach.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
A view showing the tremendous size of the lettuce (top) and radishes (bottom) which are grown on the farm at this relocation
center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Harvesting turnips.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Harvesting turnips.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--A crew of evacuee farmers at work on a semi-automatic-feeding, rotary potato planter.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 7/?/42
Tule Lake, Newell, Calif.--Captain Patterson shows Walter Fuesler, architect, the view from a hilltop near this War Relocation
Authority center, which can be seen in the background.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California.
Harvesting spinach.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
A general view of the field at the farm of this relocation center, showing the tremendous acreage and large size of the lettuce
plants which are grown here.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
Harvesting turnips.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
An evacuee is shown with a crate of spinach. His simile seems to show that he is proud of the high quality of this crop.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/8/42
This view shows an irrigation ditch which supplies the water for the farm run by evacuee workers at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/9/42
Evacuee farm hands irrigate the crops at the farm on this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/10/42
Evacuee farm hands irrigate the crops at the farm on this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/10/42
Admiring lines of evacuees files through a recreation hall, which exhibited floral arrangements made by local craftsmen.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/7/42
Volunteer farm workers are shown here returning to the fields after their noonday meal.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/7/42
Signs tacked on barracks advertising Labor Day beauty queen contest which was held at this relocation center.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/7/42
Two pretty evacuees shouldered their lunch and hiked into the foothills for a Labor Day picnic.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/7/42
Local evacuee artisans displayed their handiwork in a Labor Day festival.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/7/42
Admiring lines of evacuees filed through a recreation hall, which exhibited floral arrangements made by local craftsmen.
Photographer: Stewart, Francis
Newell, California. 9/7/42