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Alameda, Calif. Amarillo, Tex. Arcadia, Calif. Arizona Arkansas Assembly Centers, Fresno Bakersfield, Calif. Berkeley, Calif. Buildings California Carmel, Calif. Chicago, Ill. Cityscapes Crystal City, Tex. Delano, Calif. Del Rio, Tex. Denson, Ark. Denver, Colo. Dinuba, Calif. El Paso, Tex. Fort Sam Houston, Tex. France Fresno, Calif. Guadalupe, Calif. Harbor City, Calif. Hawaii Heart Mountain, Wyo. Heart Mountain, Wyoming Hilo, Hawaii Idaho Klamath Falls, Or. Lakes Lomita, Calif. Lone Pine, Calif. Lordsburg, N.M. Los Angeles, Calif. Manzanar, Calif. Marysville, Calif. Minneapolis, Minn. Newell, Calif. New York, N.Y. Oakland, Calif. Paris, France Pasadena, Calif. Poston, Ariz. Preston, Idaho Rivers, Ariz. Rohwer, Ark. Sacramento, Calif. Salinas, Calif. San Bruno, Calif. San Diego, Calif. San Francisco, Calif. San Jose, Calif. Santa Ana, Calif. Santa Fe, N.M. Seattle, Wash. Sonoma, Calif. Stockton, Calif. Tacoma, Wash. Topaz, Utah United States Voulangis, France Washington D.C. Watsonville, Calif. Yosemite, Calif.

Object Types

card card, Christmas collage copy negative drawing envelope letter painting panoramic photograph photograph postcard print print, woodblock telegram

Materials

acrylic board burlap canvas cardboard charcoal colored pencil glue gouache ink laminate laminating masonite mat board metallic paint oil paper pastel pencil photocopy plastic tape watercolor Wood

Subjects

1945- Abstract Academic costume Accreditation Actors Aerial bombings Agricultural exhibitions agriculture Airplanes Altars Altars, Buddhist Ambulances American flag American letters American Red Cross Angels Anniversaries anti-Japanese Apartments Aprons Arakawa, Margaret Arches Arizona Arkansas Arm Arrivals and departures Art Artificial flowers Assault and battery Assembly centers Assembly Centers, Fresno Assembly Centers, Santa Anita Assembly Centers, Tanforan Associations, institutions, etc. Audiences Auditoriums Automobiles Autumn Axes Back (anatomy) Baldness Balls (sporting goods) Bands (Music) Banners Barbed wire Barbering Barns Barracks Baseball Baseball bats Baseball gloves Baseball players Baseball teams Baseball umpires Baseball uniforms Basketball Basketball players basketball uniform basketball uniforms Baskets Bathing Bathrobes Bathrooms Bathtubs and showers Battleships Bayonets Bazaars (Charities) Beaches Beards Bedding Beds Beets Bells Bell towers Benches Berets Berkeley Bible Birds Blackboards Blankets Block 328 Block 329 Block 330 Blouses Board games bogus Bon dance Bonsai Books Bottles Bowls (Tableware) Boxes Boys Boy scouts Breed, Clara E. Breed, Eleanor D. Bridges Broadcasting Brooms and brushes Brothers Brothers and sisters Buckets (vessels) Buddha Buddhism Buddhist churches Buddhist temples Buildings Burge, Moris bus Buses Cactus Cafeterias Calendars California Cameras Camouflage (Military science) Candles Candy Canteens (Wartime, emergency, etc.) Caps (Headgear) Capture and imprisonment Card games Carey, Miles E. catcher Catchers (Baseball) Cats Caucasian Caucasian race censorship Central Utah Relocation Center (Topaz, Utah) Chairs Chess Chicago (Ill.) Chickens chigo Children Chimneys Chocolate candy Choirs (Music) Christianity Christmas Christmas cards Christmas presents Church buildings Churches Church services Cigarettes Circles Cities and towns Cityscapes Clergy Clerks Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Clotheslines Clothing and dress clouds Coal Coats Coffins Cold Cold (Disease) Colorado Colorado River Colors Comedies Commercial catalogs Competitions Concentration camp closures Concentration camp life Concentration camps Concentration Camps, Amache Concentration Camps, Gila River Concentration Camps, Heart Mountain Concentration Camps, Jerome Concentration Camps, Manzanar Concentration Camps, Poston Concentration Camps, Rohwer Concentration Camps, Topaz Concentration Camps, Tule Lake Congresses and conventions Construction Containers Cookery Cooks corn Correspondence Cost and standard of living Costume Cotton Cotton picking Couples Cranes Crates Crickets Criticism Crocheting Crosses Crossword puzzles Crowds Crows Crying Culverts Cushman, Frances S. Dance Dancers Date, Hideo Death Dedications Description and travel Deserts Desks Dictionaries Dinners and dining Diplomas Diseases Dishwashing Dogs Dolls Domestics Doors and doorways Draft Draft resisters Drama Draperies Drawing Dreams Dresses Drinking vessels Drums Dust Dust storms Duty Dwellings Easter Eating and drinking Editors Education Electric power failures Elementary schools El Paso (Tex.) Emigration and immigration Employees Employment English Entertainment Equipment and supplies Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Evacuee Property Office (Tule Lake) Exhibitions Eyeglasses Faces Fall foliage Families Family Fans Farewells Farmhouses Farming Farms Fathers Fay, Helen Fences Field Fighter planes Figures (representations) Fire Firearms Fire hydrants Fish Fishing Fishing poles Flagpoles Flags Flowers Flutes Flying Flypaper Food food service employees Football Forced exclusion Ford Model T automobile Fort Apache Indian Reservation (Ariz.) France Fresno Assembly Center (Fresno, Calif.) Friendship Fruit Fund raising Funeral service Furniture Games Gardening Gardens Gates geta Getas Ghosts Gifts Gila River Relocation Center (Ariz.) Girls Gloves Go (Game) Gossip graduation Graduation (School) Grandstands Gratitude Graves Greyhound buses Guardhouses guards Guitars Hairdressing Hakama Hamline University Handicraft Handkerchiefs Harbor City (Calif.) Harvesting Hats Hawaii Head, Wade Headdresses Heart Mountain (Wyo.) Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.) Heat High schools Hills Himaka, Emi Hirasaki, Tetsuzo Hirasaki, Yaeko History Holidays Hollies Holy Cross Homesickness Hompa Hongwanji Horsemeat Horses Hosiery Hospitals Household soap Houses Hula (Dance) Ice skating Idaho Illinois Indians of North America Infants Influenza Informers Insects Interiors Irons (Pressing) Ishino, Florence Ishino, Margaret Ishino, Thomas Issei Iwata, Jack Jackets Japan Japanese Japanese Americans Japanese American soldiers jeans Jerome Relocation Center (Denson, Ark.) Jesus Christ Junior high schools Justice Department Camps Justice Department Camps, Crystal City Justice Department Camps, Lordsburg Justice Department Camps, Seagoville (Tex.) Kabuki Katayama, Bill Katayama, Fuji Tsumagari Kawamoto, Haruko Kawamoto, Kikuye Kawasaki, Lillian Yuriko Kihara, Yoshiko Kubo Kikuchi, Anna Kikuchi, David Kikuchi, Elizabeth Kimonos kitchen Kitchens Kites (Toys) Knitting Kojima, Minoru Kubo, Aiko Kuratomi, Ikuko Labor Ladders Lakes Lakes and ponds Lamps Landscapes (representations) Lanterns Laundry Leaves Legs letterman sweater Librarians Libraries Library Journal Light bulbs Lightning Lincoln, Abraham Lines Listening Literacy programs Little Tokyo (Los Angeles, Calif.) Locks and keys Lordsburg (N.M.) Los Angeles Luggage Lumber Luncheons Mail-order business manji Manners and customs Manzanar High School Manzanar Relocation Center (Manzanar, Calif.) Maps Marquette University Marriage Mattresses McNary, Helen Meadows Measles Medical care Medical colleges meetings melon Memorial rites and ceremonies Men Menus mess hall Mess halls Michigan Microphone Midway, Battle of, 1942 Military police Military training Military uniforms Minnesota Mobile home living Mobile home parks Mobile homes Mochi Model airplanes Money orders Monkeys Moon Mops (Maintenance tools) Morale Mortars Mothers Motion pictures Mountain Mountains Moving, Household Mud Music Musicians Mustaches Myer, Dillon S. Names Names, Japanese Nature Nebraska Neckties Neutrals Nevada Newbery Medal Newell Star New Mexico Newspapers Newsreels New Year Night Nimbus (Art) Nisei Nudes Nurses Nuts Oakland Oakland (Calif.) Obayashi, Walter Ocean Offices Ogawa, Louise Ohio Orchards orchestra Oregon Outhouses Overalls Pacific Citizen Pacific Ocean Pails Painters (artists) Paintings Palms (trees) pants Paper dolls Parents Parker Valley High School Parks Participation, Japanese American Parties Patients Pearl Harbor Pears Pencils Pennants Pen pals People Periodicals Pestles Pets Phonographs Photographs Photography Physicians Physiology Pianos Picks (tools) Picnics Pines Pins and needles Pipes Pipes (Smoking equipment) Pitchers Plaid Plants Play Playgrounds Plows Podiums Poetry Police police department police station Population Portraits Postal service Postcards Poston Chronicle Poston I Poston II Poston III Poston Relocation Center (Poston, Ariz.) Pots Potts, Chester Power lines Prayer Priests, Buddhist Prisoners of war Privacy Prizes Programs Proms Public libraries Public opinion Public speaking Puzzles Queues Rabbits Race discrimination Racetracks (Horse racing) Radiators Radios Railroad passenger cars Railroads Railroad tracks Rain and rainfall Rationing Rattlesnakes Reading recreation Rectangles Refrigerators Religion Religious services Resettlement Reunions Rice Riots Rites and ceremonies Rivers Roads Robes Rocks Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.) Rope skipping Sabots Saddle shoes sailors Salinas San Diego San Diego (Calif.) San Diego Public Library Sandstorms San Francisco Santa Ana (Calif.) Santa Ana Army Air Base (Calif.) Santa Anita Pacemaker Santa Fe Relocation Center (N.M.) Scarcity Scarves School principals Schools Schools, Japanese Science Scorpions Sculpture Seabiscuit (Race horse) Seattle Secretaries Seesaws Segregation Self-portraits Senninbari Sewing Sewing machines Shakuhachi Shintoism Shiota, Fumi Ships Shoes Shopping Shorthand Short stories Shovels Shrubs Signs Singing Sinks sisters Skirts Sleeping Smoke Smokestacks Smoking Snow Snowmen Social aspects social hall Social life and customs Societies and clubs Softball Soldiers Sons Sound recordings Spectators Speeches, addresses, etc. Stables Staffs (sticks, canes, etc.) Stages Stairs Stationery Statue of Liberty Stenographers Stethoscopes Still lifes Stools Storage Storms Storytelling stove Stoves Streams Streets Student newspapers and periodicals Students Study and teaching Study and teaching (Elementary) Sugar Sugimoto, Henry Sugimoto, Madeleine Sugimoto, Susie Tagawa Suitcases Suits (Clothing) Summer schools Sun Sunday schools sunflower Sunflowers Sunrises and sunsets Suntan Supernatural beings Suspenders Swamps Sweaters Swimming Swimming pools Tables Tableware Tacoma Tags Talent shows Tasaki, Katherine Tea Teachers Teeth Telegraph telephone pole Temples, Buddhist Tengu Tents Texas Textile fabrics Thanksgiving Theater Theatrical productions Thermos bottles Thunderstorms Tofu Tombstones Topaz High School Tractors Trading posts Trash cans Trees Trials truck Trucks Tsumagari, Fusa Tsumagari, Yukio Tule Lake Tule Lake Relocation Center (Calif.) Tuxedoes Typewriters Typewriting Ullambana Umbrellas Uniforms United States United States. Army United States. Army. Military police United States. Army. Regimental Combat Team, 442nd United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation United States. National Youth Administration United States. War Relocation Authority Utah utility pole Utility poles Vacations Vaccination Vases vegetables Villages Violence Violin Visiting Volunteers Wages Waitresses Walking War bonds and funds Warehouses Washboards Washington (State) Watanabe, Hisako Watanabe, Jack Watanabe, June Watanabe, William Watchtowers Water Water towers Weather Weddings Wheelbarrows Whirlwinds Whites Wind Windmills Windows Winter Women Wood carvings workers World War, 1939-1945 Wrestling Writing Wyoming Yarn Yosemite, Calif. Young men Young women Youth Yucca Zenimura, Kenso Zippers