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Description
Receipt to Atsushi Art Ishida acknowledging that he has returned one steel cot, one mattress, and five blankets to Minidoka incarceration camp upon his departure. Names and barracks addresses are listed on verso as follows: "Tatsuko Suzuki, 26-3-E; Keiko Takemoto, 2700 Stork; Dorsy [Imai], 35-9-A." The Atsushi Art Ishida Collection is comprised of photographs, negatives, camp newspapers, WRA documents, memorabilia, and correspondence chronicling his time immediately after the exclusion order and during his incarceration in the Santa Anita Assembly Center in California, the Jerome camp in Arkansas, the Tule Lake camp in California, and the Minidoka camp in Idaho, as well as digital reproductions of photographs documenting his life in Japan and Artesia, California during the pre-war years and his time during the Korean War. The majority of the photographs in the collection were taken by Atsushi Art Ishida and he would often develop them in his room in the barracks where he had constructed a makeshift dark room in the camp. 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 that the incarcerees played. Also photographed are the farewell scenes in which the incarcerees who were being transferred from the Jerome camp to the Tule Lake Segregation Center.
Type
text
Format
Ephemera 1 page, 5.5 x 8 inches, typescript and handwritten application/pdf
World War II--Incarceration camps--The journey World War II--Incarceration camps--Facilities, services, and camp administration World War II--Incarceration camps--Living conditions Identity and values--Kibei Identity and values--Nisei
Place
Hunt, Idaho Incarceration Camps--Minidoka
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections
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