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Description
A photograph of Atsushi Art Ishida [center] and George Naohara [right] posing at the entrance to a mess hall in the Jerome camp. Scanned negative. The Atsushi Art Ishida Collection is comprised of photographs, negatives, camp newspapers, WRA documents, ephemera, and correspondence, chronicling his time immediately after/during his incarceration in the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, Jerome camp, Arkansas, Tule Lake Segregation Center, California, and Minidoka camp, Idaho. The majority of the photographs in the collection were taken by Atsushi A. Ishida and he would often develop them in his room in the barracks where he had constructed a makeshift dark room. His photographs depict the life in the incarceration camps, capturing the buildings, such as barracks, guard towers, a hospital, fire station, and warehouse, the workers for farming, laundry, mess hall, and logging, and the sports games in which the incarcerees participated. Photographed are also the farewell scenes in which the incarcerees who were being transferred from the Jerome camp to the Tule Lake Segregation Center.
Type
image
Format
Photographs black and white, 2.5 x 2.5 inches image/jpeg
World War II--Incarceration camps--Work and jobs World War II--Incarceration camps--Food World War II--Incarceration camps--Incarcerees Identity and values--Kibei
Place
Denson, Arkansas Incarceration Camps--Jerome
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections
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