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Title: [Crowd seeing friends leaving from camp]
Creator: Iwanaga, George S. (Shinichi): photographer
Date Created and/or Issued: [1942-1945]
Contributing Institution: California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection: CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact Honnold Mudd Library Special Collections at http://libraries.claremont.edu/sc
Description: A crowd watching friends and fellow incarcerees boarding a train to leave the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. Photograph mounted on cardstock.
A collection of 33 original photographs taken by George S. (Shinichi) Iwanaga (1921-2012) from the incarceration camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. The black and white images depict the people of the camp, their living quarters, and daily life. The Heart Mountain War Relocation Center opened in June 1942 and closed on November 10, 1945. Iwanaga, born in Fresno, was a 21-year-old Los Angeles resident of Japanese descent, who never visited Japan and had completed two years of college. He lived for two years at Heart Mountain before being released in August 1944.
Type: image
Format: Photographs
black and white, 7 x 10 inches
image/jpeg
Identifier: tccl_jai00238
tccl_iwa_00238
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/27171
Language: English
Subject: World War II--Incarceration camps
World War II--Leaving Camp
Geographic communities--Wyoming
Place: Cody, Wyoming
Incarceration Camps--Heart Mountain
Source: Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library
Relation: California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c83t9ns9
George S. Iwanaga Papers

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