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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 15h

A photograph of Japanese American soldiers resting in the woods. The soldiers are fully equipped and wear heavy coats. Date and location unknown, the picture was likely taken in France sometime in 1944.
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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 1d

A photograph of a Japanese American couple with a baby. Caption in album: "At Yoshinaka Farm. Moses Lake, Washington. Karen - 8 months old. Taken October 1944."
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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 2d

A photograph of Yukie Masukawa and her young children, Keiko Kay and Junko June, at the Poston incarceration camp in Arizona. Caption on back, which was written in Japanese: "Photo was taken in October 1943. Photographed are Yukie, Keiko, and Junko."
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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 3d

A photograph of an aerial view of the Heart Mountain incarceration camp in Wyoming. The camp barracks can be seen as well as Heart Mountain in the distance. Caption on photograph: "Heart Mountain / To Rev. & Mrs. S. Nagatomi, / from [?] & T. Tanaba / 10/6/43."
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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 6d

A photograph of Paul and Kenji Ima with an unnamed Japanese American woman. Caption on photograph: "October 1940 -3 yr - 5yr." Location unknown, the photograph was taken sometime in October 1940.
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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 7d

A photograph of six Japanese American soldiers serving with Military Intelligence Service at Camp Savage, Minnesota. The photograph was taken sometime in 1942 or 1943.
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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 8d

A photograph of Japanese American soldiers with the 100th Battalion having dinner with a white family. Location unknown, the photograph was taken in October 1942 or 1943.
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Caption on back: "This was taken in October. / left to right. / My husband, Geo's pal, Bev. dad, Herbert, Geo. - Bev. mother + Bev. - You can only see my arm. This was taken in our dining room just ready to eat supper."

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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 9d

A photograph of two Japanese American women posing with their umbrellas at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp in Wyoming. The photograph was taken by Yoshio Okumoto on September 30, 1943.
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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 10d

A photograph of Japanese American and White nurses at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp in Wyoming. The group poses in front of the nurse quarter at the camp. The photograph was taken by Yoshio Okumoto sometime in 1943.
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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 14d

A photograph of Japanese American senior citizens at the Manzanar incarceration camp in California. Caption on photograph: "Manzanar Keiro Kan (Senior Citizen-Pioneer Day) sponsored by YBA (Young Buddhist Association), September 26, 1943, Rev. Nagatomi and Mayeda in attendance."
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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 15d

A photograph of a Japanese American man holding a Red Cross package at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp in Wyoming. Date unknown, the photograph was taken by Yoshio Okumoto.
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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 16d

A photograph of a newborn Japanese American baby at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp in Wyoming. Caption on back: "Ono baby, 29-19-A, Sept 23 1943 3:30 PM." The photograph was taken by Yoshio Okumoto.
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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 17d

A photograph of a Japanese American woman at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp in Wyoming. Camp barracks can be seen, as well as Heart Mountain in the distance. Date unknown, the photograph was taken by Yoshio Okumoto.
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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 20d

A photograph of a Japanese American boy at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp in Wyoming. A row of barracks anf Heart Mountain can be seen in the background. Date unknown, the photograph was taken by Yoshio Okumoto.
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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 21d

A photograph of the Heart Mountain incarceration camp in Wyoming. Camp barracks can be seen in the foreground as well as a couple of Japanese Americans. Heart Mountain itself can be seen in the distance. Date unknown, the photograph was taken by Yoshio Okumoto.

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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 22d

A photograph of Tomoye Nozawa, a Japanese American woman, holding a cat. Caption on the back: "Sun Sept 17." The photograph was taken on September 17, 1939.
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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 23d

I found it on the Densho Digital Repository. Densho has a ton of great materials and I highly recommend visiting their site.
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ddr-csujad-14-51 — Swing Band practice at Heart Mountain incarceration camp | Densho Digital Repository

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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 23d

A photograph of a Japanese American swing band at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp in Wyoming. The band, composed entirely of men, practices with their instruments before an event. The photograph was taken on September 16, 1942.
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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 24d

A photograph of Japanese Americans boarding buses departing from the Gila River incarceration camp in Arizona. They were inspected one final time before leaving while their possessions were shipped to warehouses. The photograph was taken by the WRA sometime in September 1945.
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Found in the Densho Digital Repository
Original WRA caption: Gila River Relocation Center, Rivers, Arizona. After final checkings are completed, evacuees are anxious to take off. On September 15, two weeks before the Canal Camp at Rivers, Arizona, was to close, only 635 people remained and 370 of these had bus or train reservations for the following week (the Canal Camp once had more than 5,000 residents). Most of the people are going out by special Greyhound buses. Their property, crated for freight shipment, is picked up at their homes and stored in project warehouses until it is loaded on the heavy trucking vans. Before the relocators leave the Center they secure their travel vouchers and their ration books from the Leave Office and get their special Relocation Grant from the Agent Cashier. Farm machinery, once used in the production of vegetables and melons for Gila and other centers, now is assembled ready to be moved from the Center. All the livestock is gone and buildings and fences are being torn down.

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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 27d

A photograph of Staff Sgt. Henry H. Gosho (seated), with his wife and daughter (seated left), and friends in New York City, after a dinner in his honor. Gosho served with Merrill's Marauders in Burma and was awarded a Broze Star. The photograph was taken on September 12, 1945.
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Original WRA caption: Former S. Sgt. Henry H Gosho, Mrs. Gosho (seated) and their eighteen month-old daughter Carol Jeanne are shown with a few of the new Yorkers who attended a dinner in his honor on September 12, 1945, at the Toyo Kwan Restaurant in New York City under the auspices of the new York Chapter of the JACL. From left to right the other are: Mrs. Ruth Shinno (kneeling) formerly of Wilmington, California, and the Jerome Relocation Center; and the Misses Toshiko Kako, of Denver and San Francisco; Nellie Mayeda, of the Gila River Relocation Center and Visalia, California; and Louise Takahashi of Central Utah Relocation Center and Los Angeles. Sgt. Gosho was awarded a Presidential Unit Citation, Bronze Star, the Pacific Ribbon with three campaign stars and the Combat Infantryman's Badge during sixteen months service in the Burma-India theater with Army Combat Intelligence of Merrill's Marauders. A former resident of Seattle, Washington, he relocated to New York City in August 1945 from the Minidoka Relocation Center with his wife and baby daughter Carol Jeanne.

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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 28d

#OTD in 1943, the Seattle Times reports that Lieut. Gen. Delos Emmons will replace the infamously anti-Japanese Lieut. Gen. DeWitt as leader of the Western Defense Command. Emmons was military governor of Hawaii after Pearl Harbor and imposed martial law over mass incarceration.
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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 29d

A photograph of Japanese Americans boarding a bus departing from the Minidoka incarceration camp in Idaho. The photograph was taken by Tadao "Tod" Fujihira on September 10, 1945.
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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · Sep 9

A photograph of a eight Japanese American men posing together at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp in Wyoming. A child can be seen on the far left. The photograph was taken by Yoshio Okumoto sometime in 1944.
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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · Sep 8

A photograph of Japanese American music students in Seattle, Washington. Caption on photograph: "Piano students of Michiko Morita, violin students of Fumiko Morita." The photograph was taken on September 8, 1939.
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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · Sep 5

A photograph of 2nd Lieutenant Takaharu Kosaka (left), an Imperial Japanese officer, and Tech 3rd Robert M. Oda (right), a Japanese American soldier. The photograph was taken between September 4-5, 1945, as negotiations for the surrender of the Ryukyu Islands took place.
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