Image / Workers at Heart Mountain

View source image on contributor's website.

Get Citation

Have a question about this item?

Contact Owner

Item information. View source record on contributor's website.

Title: Workers at Heart Mountain
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1942-1943
Contributing Institution: California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection: CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information: Permission to publish the image must be obtained from the CSUDH Archives as owner of the physical item and copyright. In instances when the copyright ownership is not clear it is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain copyright permission.
Description: Photograph of men and maybe women working outside of a barrack at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. Potatoes are most likely in the sacks in front of the building. The barrack number is 8-1-26 and the sign above the doorway reads: Closed after 10:30. Photo from: Satoru Maeda Heart Mountain Photo Album (csudh_mae_0001), page 3.
Satoru Maeda Heart Mountain Photo Album complied by a Kibei Nisei who was incarcerated in the Heart Mountain camp in Cody, Wyoming, transferred to the Tule Lake Segregation Center in Newell, California, and sent to the Santa Fe Internment Camp in Santa Fe, New Mexico during World War II. It contains photographs mostly taken in the Heart Mountain camp, documenting life in the camp during World War II. Photographed are the facilities, jobs, sports events, and social activities at the camp. Included are interiors of a mess hall, laundry room, shower room, washroom, barber, and offices, buildings and workers of a fire station and police station, ambulance, electric panels, guard tower, livestock, construction sites including an irrigation canal or possibly the Heart Mountain Canal constructed by incarcerees, timber and farm workers, sports events for judo, baseball, and sumo, Bon dance, music performance, calligraphy class, and a trip to Yellowstone National Park. There are also photographs of the incarcerees who are being sent from the Heart Mountain camp to the Tule Lake Segregation Center and group photographs of male internees, presumably Issei and Kibei Nisei, in the Santa Fe Internment Camp in New Mexico as well as few photographs taken during the prewar time period.
Type: image
Format: Photographs; Albums
black and white, 3 x 4.5 inches
image/jpeg
Identifier: mae_01_05_014
csudh_mae_0013
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/44914
Subject: World War II--Incarceration camps--Work and jobs
World War II--Incarceration camps--Food
World War II--Incarceration camps--Incarcerees
Place: Cody, Wyoming
Incarceration Camps--Heart Mountain
Source: CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections
Relation: California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c82z1ccn/
Satoru Maeda Heart Mountain Photo Album

About the collections in Calisphere

Learn more about the collections in Calisphere. View our statement on digital primary resources.

Copyright, permissions, and use

If you're wondering about permissions and what you can do with this item, a good starting point is the "rights information" on this page. See our terms of use for more tips.

Share your story

Has Calisphere helped you advance your research, complete a project, or find something meaningful? We'd love to hear about it; please send us a message.