RELOCATION CENTERS

Figure 24: Young women in a sewing-design class in Poston, Arizona, 1/4/43. NARA photo: NWDNS-210-G-A843.

Figure 25: The internees actually ran many aspects of camp life, even in the most repressive center, the one at Tule Lake, California. Here we see members of the Fire Department No. 2 checking their equipment, 2/3/1943. NARA photo: NWDNS-210-G-A99.

Figure 26: WRA Caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. 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. 2/2/1943. NARA Photo: NWDNS-210-G-A994.

Figure 27: Near the end of the internments, the WRA was marketing the idea of the attractiveness of life outside the camps, to persuade sometimes reluctant internees to leave, as in this photo taken in September 1945 at the Poston, Arizona relocation center. WRA Caption: Rose Yamada and Mitsuye Ohye look wistfully at War Relocation Authority photographs of Postonites who have successfully relocated on the outside. NARA photo: NWDNS-210-G-K357.

Figure 28: WRA Caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry receiving mail at Manzanar Post Office - a branch of the Los Angeles Post Office, more than 250 miles away. A two-cent stamp will send a letter by first-class mail from Manzanar to Los Angeles. 4/2/1942, NARA Photo NWDNS-210-G-B144.

Figure 29: Internees shopping in the General Store at the Tule Lake Relocation Center, 7/1/42. NARA photo NWDNS-210-D-D13.

Figure 30: Although the internees ran many aspects of camp life themselves, they were subject to control by WRA officials. Here, very early in the operations of the Poston, Arizona camp, WRA official Norris James gives instructions to the staff of the camp newspaper. 6/4/1942, NARA photo: NWDNS-210-G-D562.

Figure 31: Japanese-American citizens in the Tule Lake Relocation Center get their absentee ballots notarized for the November 1942 elections, 11/2/42. NWDNS-210–A628.

Figure 32: High school marching band in the Granada relocation center, Amache, Colorado, 5/23/1943. NARA photo: NWDNS-210-G-B585.

Figure 33: Second-graders in the elementary school at the Jerome relocation center in Dermott Ark. doing their daily rhythmic exercises, undated. NARA photo: NWDNS-210-G-B785.

Figure 34: Members of the National Honor Society of the Amache High School in the Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colo., 5/23/1943. NARA photo: NWDNS-210-G-B583.

Figure 35: The high school girl’s glee club in the Granada Center, Amache, Colo., 5/23/1943. NARA photo: NWDNS-210-G-B584.

Figure 36: Class being taught to students in Gila River Relocation Center, Gila River, Ariz., 4/23/1943. NARA photo: NWDNS-210-G-B447.