japanese american internment

Take Up The Struggle Demand Our Full Rights!
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

This is a yellow poster with a black printed image depicting a crowd of people holding signs, working on a railroad, and engaged in other activities. Text on a large banner at the top of the...

Notice
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

This poster features black text starting very large in the top center with "Notice" and continuing below a thin line with "Headquarters / Western Defense Command / and Fourth Army / Presidio of...

Japanese
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

This poster features black text starting at the top center with "Western Defense Command And Fourth Army / Wartime Civil Control Administration / Presidio of San Francisco, California / May 5,...

Instruction To All Persons Of Japanese Ancestry
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster has a white border and a black background overall. Poster is printed with a large reproduction of the Western Defense Command And Fourth Army Wartime Civil control Administrations...

(16 images of internment at Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California and Topaz Relocation Center, Utah)
1942-1943

This is a set of 16 clich_s-verre prints adhered together on a cardboard backing board. The artist drew on photonegative film and printed the images to create white line prints on a black...

1944

Document. Description: Document, U.S. Dept. of Interior, Relocation Authority, certificate of completion of the 10th grade, Henry Yoshimoto, awarded at Colorado River Relocation Center, July 25...

1944

Document. Description: Notice of Assignment, Colorado River Relocation Center, Henry Yoshimoto, June 14, 1944.

From the History Information Station:

Object: Document. "Notice of...

FEBRUARY, 1943
(movie watching in the grandstand, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California)
1942

Black ink drawing on paper shows a large group of people sitting inside a building. A film projector shows a movie on a small screen at top right in the distance.

Mess Hall
1942

Black ink drawing on paper shows a group of people eating together. Men, women, and children are crowded together at long tables. A woman holds a plate with a piece of food in the foreground at...

(line up for mess hall, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California)
1942

Black ink drawing on paper contains an image of many people standing outside in lines. The line of people nearest to the viewer appears in the foreground along the lower half of the composition...

(passing rumors, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California)
1942

Clich_s-verre on paper. The image shows a group of four people talking in the foreground. A road leads from bottom left into the distance at upper right flanked by rows of buildings. Figures...

(lining up for typhid and smallpox shots, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California)
1942

Clich_s-verre on paper. The image contains lines of men and women pictured in the foreground and extending toward a group of buildings in the distance across the upper margin. The lines appear...

(delivery to Barrack 16, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California)
1942

Clich_s-verre on paper. The image shows men and women riding with luggage in the back of a truck in the foreground at center. In the background along the upper margin of the composition, trucks...

(Americanization class, Topaz Relocation Center, Utah)
circa 1942-1943

Clich_s-verre on paper. The image contains men and women in the foreground sitting at long tables looking at a man standing in the distance at the front of the room. The man holds a book and...

In Topaz
circa 1942-1943

Clich_s-verre on paper. The image shows a couple dancing on one side of a partition and a person unsuccessful in falling asleep on the other side.

(women waiting for men to be searched for contraband, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California)
1942

Clich_s-verre on paper. The image contains a group of four figures sitting in the foreground at bottom. Soldiers search a line of men and women in the background across the upper part of the...

In Topaz, "Motion pictures were shown weekly in the grandstand, but the 16mm. film was inadequate."
1942

Clich_s-verre (photographic print) on paper. The image shows a large group of people sitting inside a building. A film projector shows a movie on a small screen at top right in the distance.

(women bathing, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California)
1942

Clich_s-verre on paper. The image depicts several women washing in shower stalls. A woman at left steps into a pan of water, and a woman at right sits on the edge of a wooden barrel filled with...

(line-up for restrooms, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California)
1942

Clich_s-verre on paper. The image shows a line of women in the foreground in the lower margin that extends into the distance at left to a row of six stalls along the upper margin. Legs and feet...

(carrying handmade mattresses to barracks, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California)
1942

Clich_s-verre on paper. The image shows a man and a woman with large sacks of straw in the foreground at center and seven men moving sacks in the background at upper left.

(boarding buses headed for Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California)
1942

Clich_s-verre on paper. The image shows a line of men and women that starts in the foreground in the lower margin and leads to a bus at center. A street with trees, buildings, and cars appears...

(men resting, Topaz Relocation Center, Utah)
circa 1942-1943

Watercolor painting on paper depicts nine men resting among boxes at bottom center near a wooden building that appears mostly out of frame at right. Long buildings appear in the distance at the...

(camp barracks with trees to be planted, Topaz Relocation Center, Utah)
circa 1942-1943

Watercolor painting on paper depicts a landscape with a tree in a wooden box at lower right near bare ground. A dirt road extends across the center of the image at mid-ground in front of a row...

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