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2"x1.5" negative. Photograph of Sergeant Ben Kuroki speaking from an outdoor stage at a ceremony in his honor and holding a book from Heart Mountain commemorating his visit , Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming. Children surround are sitting…

5"x7" print. Photograph of a man shoveling coal at Minidoka Relocation Center, Idaho. The man stands at the entrance to a building with a sign reading, "Keep Out: Boilerman only." In addition to coal, several pieces of wood are stacked near the…

"1.5x2 negative. Photograph of a crowd at the train station saying goodbye to people taking the train to the Tule Lake Relocation Center, Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming. Based on the year, it is possible that this transfer of internees is…

"2x3 negative. Photograph of the Hide family's barrack at Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming. Inside the barrack is a small Christmas tree, presents, and a snowman figurine."

"2x3 negative. Photograph of two young men sitting on the porch of the Shimizu family barrack at Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming. Behind the young men is a sign that reads "Dream Castle: S. Shimizu and family.""

"2x3 negative. Photograph of Koto Hirahara posing in her garden in front of her family barrack 15-9-A, Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming."

"2x3 negative. Photograph of a little girl riding a tricycle outside of the barracks, Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming."

"2x3 negative. Photograph of the mess hall staff from Lower Block 2 posing outside of a mess hall, Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming. Many among the staff are wearing aprons."

2x3 negative. Photograph of Torakichi Sam Migita and other men making mochitsuki inside of Mess Hall 15-30, Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming. Migita is swinging a wooden mallet as another man in an apron turns and stretches the mochi. …

Photograph of Hisako Takeda holding her son, Terry, in front of a barrack at Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming. Hisako stands in front of a barrack and snow covers the ground in front of her.

2x1.5 negative. Photograph of an empty lot in block 16 before where Heart Mountain High School was built, Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming.

1.5x2 negative. This is a photograph of three members of the Washington State College track team, including Tom Hide who is the middle runner. The runner lined up to the left of Hide may be Sam Higuchi. The runners are crouched in a starting…

4x2.5 negative. This photograph is of Kiyo Hide and Marie Bressler standing next to each other in front of a barrack at Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming. The Hide family provided help to Bresslers on their farm in Lyman, Nebraska in the…

This is a photograph of Shiro Takeda sitting on the deck of a ship to Japan in April 1932. He is wearing a suit and glasses and is seated in front of an emissions pipe. After graduating from Lincoln University, Takeda visited Japan before returning…

Photograph of an intramural basketball team from Washington State College called the Independents. During the 1944-1945 school year, the team compiled a record of 5-1. The team was comprised mainly of Japanese Americans. The team consisted of Mac…

Letter, Ralph Waldo Emerson to Walt Whitman extolling Whitman's poetry, 21 July 1855.

In one of the most quoted letters in American literary history, Emerson writes to an eager Whitman, "I greet you at the beginning of a brilliant career..." …

A wordle representation of Emerson's Self-Reliance essay

Artistic representation of Ralph Waldo Emerson