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This project was funded, in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program and the Idaho Humanities Council, a state-based program of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of the Interior or the Idaho Humanities Council.

Section 1: Russell Lee PhotographsCourtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection

#1. Tent homes at the Shelley, Idaho farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073778-D.

#2. Twin Falls, Idaho farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073771-D.

#3. Rupert, Idaho farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073909-D.

#4. Nyssa, Oregon farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073602-D.

#5. Twin Falls farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073759-D.

#6. Housing at the Rupert farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073843-D.

#7. Child living at the Shelley farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-

073787-D.

#8. Twin Falls, Idaho farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073757-D.

#9. The Ouchida family at the Nyssa farm labor camp, July 1942. Photographed clockwise from the bottom left: Jack, Shizuko, Henry, Thomas, Kiuda, Shizuyo, Mary, and Rosie. LC-USF34-

073354-D.

#10. Housing at the Twin Falls farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073768-D.

#11. Cooking rice at the Shelley farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073801-

D.

#12. Preparing lunch at the Rupert farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073844-D.

#13. Dr. Louie Maulding administering a vaccination to Yasu Teramura at the Nyssa farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073345-D.

#14. Workers from the Twin Falls farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-

USF34-073809-E.

#15. Worker from the Rupert farm labor camp, July 1942.

LC-USF34-073923-E.

#16. Workers from the Nyssa farm labor camp going into town, July 1942. LC-USF33-013305-M1.

#17. May Uchiyama working near the Nyssa farm labor camp, July

1942. LC-USF34-073699-E.

#18. Worker from the Shelley farm labor camp hoeing sugar

beets, July 1942. LC-USF34-073828-E.

#19. Workers from the Rupert farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073890-D.

#20. Pictured left to right: Anne Morishita, Nancy Morishita, Dorothy Iwasaki, Rose Iwasaki, and Kay Morishita at the Nyssa farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073607-D.

#21. Tent homes at the Nyssa farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073349-D.

#22. Rupert farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073906-D.

#23: Toilets used by Japanese American farm workers at the Rupert farm labor camp, July

1942. LC-USF34- 073920-E.

#24. Laundry facilities at the Nyssa farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073694-E.

#25. Farmers picking up workers from the Nyssa farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF33-013305-M1.

#26. Workers from the Nyssa farm labor camp visit a movie theater in the town of Nyssa, July 1942. LC-USF34-073663-D.

Section 2: WRA Photographs

Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

#27. Masayuki Tashima volunteered from Poston, Arizona to work in sugar beet fields near Milliken, Colorado. Photographed

by Tom Parker, November 1942.

#28. John Fukushima and Masayuki Tashima arrived

from Poston to work in sugar beet fields near

Milliken, Colorado. Photographed by Tom

Parker, November 1942.

#29. The Great Western Sugar Company recruited

John Fukushima and Takayuki Tashima from Poston to top beets in Johnstown, Colorado. Photographed by Tom

Parker, November 1942.

#30. Japanese American laborers near Johnstown,

Colorado. Photographed by Tom Parker, November

1942.

#31. Philip Nakaoka swinging a piked knife to pick up a sugar beet. The beet is grasped in the left hand and the top chopped

off with the knife. Photographed by Tom

Parker, November 1942

#32. Three men from Heart Mountain harvesting sugar beets on the farm of Rose Tanaka, near Henderson, Colorado. Tanaka and her

father own and operate the farm. Photographed by

Charles E. Mace, October 1943.

#33. Rose Tanaka, owner and operator of her own farm near Henderson,

Colorado, is shown with Tom Tanabe who

volunteered to harvest sugar beets from Rohwer, Arkansas. Photographed

by Charles E. Mace, October 1943.

#34. Typical housing provided for Japanese American farm laborers near Keensburg, Colorado. Photographed by Tom Parker, November 1942.

#35. Farm laborer from Granada, Colorado.

Photographed by Tom Parker, November 1942.

#36. Before sugar beets can be topped they must be

pulled and laid in rows for topping. Asao Philip

Nakaoka pulling a row of sugar beets. Photographed by Tom Parker, November

1942.

#37. For many laborers from West Coast cities, sugar beet work was their first farm experience. Photographed by Tom Parker, September 1942.

#38. Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain, Wyoming registering for sugar beet labor in Wyoming, Montana, and Colorado. Photographed by Tom Parker, September 1942.

#39. Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain board a bus for sugar beet fields in Montana. Photographed by Tom Parker, September 1942.

#40. Japanese American who volunteered from Heart Mountain for sugar beet labor in Montana, cutting a sugar beet under the direction of a farmer. Photographed by Tom Parker, September

1942.

#41. A farmer demonstrating sugar beet topping to Japanese Americans who volunteered from Heart Mountain to relieve the labor shortage in Montana. Photographed by Tom Parker, September 1942.

#42. Six workers from Granada working in a sugar beet field near Prospect, Colorado. Photographed by Tom Parker, November 1942.

#43. Masayuki Tashima, Takayuki Tashima, George Adachi, Asao Nakaoka, and Chihiro Sugi playing cards while living in Colorado as sugar beet laborers. Photographed by Tom Parker, November 1942.

#44. George Adachi preparing dinner for himself and five other sugar beet laborers living in Colorado. Photographed by Tom Parker, November 1942.

#45. One member of a family of former California residents topping beets near Prospect, Colorado. Photographed by Tom Parker, November 1942.

#46. A typical house provided for Japanese American farm laborers, near Prospect, Colorado. Photographed by Tom Parker, November 1942.

Section 3: Personal PhotographsCourtesy of Aya Fujii, Janet Koda, and Hisako Yasuda

#47. Nyssa, Oregon farm labor camp, 1942.

#48. Ben Kamihira, Jim Fujii, and Tad Fujii waiting for the barber at the Nyssa farm labor camp, 1942.

#49. Noriko Kido and Aya Iwasaki at the Nyssa farm labor camp, 1942.

#50. Hisako Kido at the Nyssa farm labor camp, 1942.

#51. James Wakagawa, Mas Wada and Joe Umemoto at the Nyssa farm labor camp, 1942.

#52. Jim Umemoto doing laundry at the Nyssa farm labor camp, 1942.

#53. Kayno Saito topping sugar beets in Malheur County, Oregon, 1942.

#54. Sugar beet harvest in Malheur County, 1942. Identified men include: George Iwasaki, standing on the left; Yasu Teramura, standing on the right; and Yuhei Kido, wearing the

newsboy cap.

#55. Kayno Saito with sugar beets in Malheur County, 1942.

#56. Moose Kuribayashi working in sugar beet fields in Malheur County, 1942.

#57. Yasukicki "Billy" Iwasaki at the Adrian, Oregon farm labor camp, circa 1943.

#58. Maako Endow, Taka Iwasaki, Mary Ouchida, and Kate Iwasaki at the Adrian farm labor camp, circa 1943.

#59. Masaka Endow, Alice Hashitani, Taka Iwasaki, and Kate Iwasaki at the Adrian farm labor camp, circa 1943.

#60. George Funatake, wearing a Nyssa High School letterman’s sweater, at the

Adrian farm labor camp, circa 1943.

#61. Mary Ouchida at the Adrian farm labor camp, circa 1943.

#62. Aya Iwasaki, Noriko Kido, Mary Doi, and Taka Iwasaki at the Adrian

farm labor camp, circa 1943.

#63. Sam Sakamoto, wearing a Nyssa High School letterman’s sweater, at the Adrian

farm labor camp, circa 1943.

#64. Taka Iwasaki, Marge Kikuchi, and Kae Matsui at the Adrian farm labor camp, circa 1943.

#65. Shig Hironaka at the Adrian farm labor camp, circa 1943.

#66. Taka Iwasaki, Noriko Kido, and Aya Iwasaki at the Adrian farm labor camp,

circa 1943.