Francis Stewart - Japanese Internment

 Residents of Colorado River Relocation Center for persons 

of Japanese ancestry requesting repatriation to Japan, 1942

 

 Robert Naeda, 9, son of the first family to arrive at this War Relocation Authority center, 

studies his school lessons in a home-made chair, Poston, Arizona, 1942

 

 Rose Nakagawa, former student from San Francisco, California, now works 

as a mimeograph operator on the Topaz Times. Topaz, Utah, 1943

 S. Hanasaki, former vegetable seed specialist from San Jose, California, shown inspecting 

carrot plants, now ready to be harvested for seeds, Rivers, Arizona, 1942

 

 Selling skates in community store in Block 30. 

(L to R) Betty Yasunobu, Nellie Arai, salesgirl. Hunt, Idaho, 1943

 

 Sewing school. Evacuee students are taught here not only to design 

but make clothing as well, Poston, Arizona, 1943

 

 Student Mary Sakai, former resident of Stockton, California, is shown 

putting sliced carrots in a double boiler in preparation for the drying process, 1943

 

 Takeshi Shindo, Reporter for the Manzanar Free Press, and his girl friend Toshiko Mikami, 

enjoy a pleasant afternoon at the picnic ground at this War Relocation Authority Center. 

Manzanar, California, 1943

 

 The baggage, belonging to evacuees who have just arrived from the assembly center at Puyallup, Washington, is sorted and trucked to their barrack apartments. Hunt, Idaho, 1942

 

 These two little evacuees of Japanese ancestry are getting acquainted at this 

War Relocation Authority center, Poston, Arizona, 1942

 

 These youngsters are playing in the field of a nursery school at Manzanar. 1942

 

 Two young girl evacuees of Japanese ancestry invite their boy friends 

to dance at a barn dance given by Block 12, Poston, Arizona, 1942

 View in the home of Eizo Nishi, showing attractive way this evacuee family 

has decorated their barrack apartment. Hunt, Idaho, 1943

 

 Watering chrysanthemum plants in Nakata and Son hot house. Many rare and 

patented flowers have been developed by this firm, Rivers, Arizona, 1942

 

 Welders in the machine shop at this War Relocation Authority Center, 

Poston, Arizona, 1943

 

 Winter time panorama view. Hunt, Idaho, 1943

 

Yachiyo Honda and Sakae Nakasaki pin a favor on Jean Honda at a barn dance 

given by Block 12 at the War Relocation Authority center where evacuees 

are spending the duration, Poston, Arizona, 1942