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History is more than just text on a page; it is the photographs, voices, and artifacts of the people who lived it. The images and recordings featured across Foundations and Futures are part of a meticulously curated media repository. Whether you are building a lesson plan or investigating an artifact, you can use this database to trace the provenance of our media: discover who created an asset, the historical context behind it, and how it can be used to bring Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences into your classroom.
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The 442nd Regimental Combat Team
Original caption: Japanese-American troops climb into a truck as they prepare to move their bivouac area. 2nd Battalion, 442nd Combat Team, Chambois Sector. France
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Tule Lake jail
A jail was built at Tule Lake which was co-managed by the border guards and WRA wardens. The building still survies today.
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Returning Seattle Family’s Garage Vandalized
This family returned to their home in Seattle from the camp at Minidoka, Idaho to find their garage vandalized.
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Riot at Manzanar headline
Walter Millsap was from 1916 to 1919 an active member of the utopian Llano colony, a socialist community which moved from its original location in California to Louisiana in 1917. Millsap was trustee of United Co-Operative Industries and head of the Llano Co-Operative Association.
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Baseball Game at Tule Lake
Baseball was a popular pastime at the WRA camps. This photo shows the opening game of the 1944 Tule Lake baseball season. Nearly half of the camp’s inmates attended the game.
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The Down Beats
Young Nisei formed bands, like the Downbeats pictured here at Tule Lake, to perform at dances and other social gatherings.
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White Shell Corsage Pin
Many women at Tule Lake collected tiny shells, the remains of mollusks that once inhabited an ancient lakebed located where the camp was built. They painstakingly cleaned, sorted, arranged and decorated the shells into elaborate creations like these pins.
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Stenographers and Clerks In Tule Lake Administrative Office
All other workers, like the stenographers in this photo taken at Tule Lake, received $12–16 a month. In contrast, white camp employees earned more than ten to twenty times as much as Japanese American workers for the same jobs.
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Dr. James Goto Examines a Patient
The government paid Japanese American professionals, like the doctor pictured here, nineteen dollars a month. In contrast, white camp employees earned more than ten to twenty times as much as Japanese American workers for the same jobs.
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Pinedale (Calif.) Assembly Center Dining Hall
Photograph shows Japanese Americans young women in waitress uniforms during forced removal of Japanese Americans to temporary concentration camps during World War II.
