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Title: [Block 14 girls softball team]
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: Girls softball team with Coach Shig Hioki.
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, 8 x 10 inches
image/jpeg
Identifier: tccl_jai00260
tccl_iwa_00260
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/27173
Language: English
Subject: World War II--Incarceration camps
World War II--Incarceration camps--Incarcerees
World War II--Incarceration camps--Sports
Community activities--Sports--Softball
World War II--Incarceration camps--Housing--Barracks
Geographic communities--Wyoming
Place: Cody, Wyoming
Incarceration Camps--Heart Mountain
Source: Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library

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