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Hisako Hibi
Collection
Created by: eishida
Hisako Hibi was born in Fukui, Japan in 1907. When she was 13 years old, she came to the United States with her parents. While attending the California School of ...
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Jack Iwata Collection
Collection
Created by: eishida
Jack Iwata was born in Seattle, Washington, but grew up in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. He returned to the United States when he was 16 years old, and attended Whittier College ...
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George Hoshida Collection
Collection
Created by: eishida
George Hoshida was born in 1907 in Kumamoto, Japan. He migrated with his family to Hilo, Hawaii when he was four years old, and this is where George spent all ...
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Henry Sugimoto Collection
Collection
Created by: eishida
Henry Sugimoto was born in 1900 in Wakayama, Japan, and lived until the year 1990. During his lifetime, he created hundreds of works of original art, many pieces depicting the ...
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Baseball Game 1, Amache
Contributed Item
Uploaded by: fmpotter
This photo is most likely showing the festivities for a big baseball game at the camp.
From to the collection of Frank Endo, who was interned at Amache.
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Part of these collections:
Frank Endo - Amache photos
(Item 4 of 12, “Summer food and games 1”)
Collected by: bokinaka
This photo is most likely showing the festivities next to the baseball field for the big game.
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Winter at Camp Amache, Colorado
Contributed Item
Uploaded by: fmpotter
A wintertime shot of Amache. During World War II, Amache was the site of a Japanese American relocation center. Photo taken by Frank Endo, a resident of Block 7K.
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Part of these collections:
Frank Endo - Amache photos
(Item 10 of 12, “Winter street”)
Collected by: bokinaka
A wintertime shot of Amache.
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Post Office, Amache
Contributed Item
Uploaded by: fmpotter
A man walks in front of the Post Office at Amache, Colorado. Amache was one of the federal relocation camps used to house Japanese Americans during World War II.
Photo from ...
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Part of these collections:
Frank Endo - Amache photos
(Item 1 of 12, “A small city in the middle of nowhere”)
Collected by: bokinaka
About 7500 Japanese-Americans lived at Amache at its peak in October 1942, making it the 10th-largest city in Colorado at the time. Amache is located in eastern Colorado.
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Baseball Game, Amache
Contributed Item
Uploaded by: fmpotter
A war time baseball game at Amache, a U.S. federal concentration camp for Japanese Americans in Colorado.
Photo from the collection of Frank Endo, an Amache internee.
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Part of these collections:
Frank Endo - Amache photos
(Item 3 of 12, “American pasttime”)
Collected by: bokinaka
It looks like the whole camp came out to see the game. People tried to maintain some appearance of normal life.
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Amache Food Warehouse Crew, 1943
Contributed Item
Uploaded by: fmpotter
Frank Endo (second from right) and other members of the Food Warehouse crew at Amache, Colorado, pose in front of a truck in 1943. Amache was a U.S. federal concentration ...
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Part of these collections:
Frank Endo - Amache photos
(Item 2 of 12, “Amache”)
Collected by: bokinaka
The official name of the camp was Granada Relocation Center. Amache was the daughter of the chief of the Cheyenne Indian tribe that once lived in the area.
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7K Dance at Amache
Contributed Item
Uploaded by: fmpotter
Internees such as Frank Endo (center, in Aloha shirt) enjoy a dance in the 7K mess hall at Amache, Colorado, on April 9 [1944]. Amache was a U.S. federal concentration ...
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Part of these collections:
Frank Endo - Amache photos
(Item 8 of 12, “7K dance”)
Collected by: bokinaka
Internees organized social events to keep busy. While conditions were harsh, people did the best they could. Frank Endo is in the center, wearing an Aloha shirt.
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Volleyball Game at Amache, March 1944
Contributed Item
Uploaded by: fmpotter
Residents of Block 7K participate in a wintertime volleyball game at Amache, Colorado, in March of 1944. Amache was a U.S. federal concentration camp for Japanese Americans during World War ...
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Part of these collections:
Frank Endo - Amache photos
(Item 11 of 12, “Volleyball in the snow!”)
Collected by: bokinaka
Amache Hospital can be seen in the background of the photo.
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Recruiting In Amache, 1943
Contributed Item
Uploaded by: fmpotter
A military recruiter talks to three Amache internees in 1943 at the Amache internment camp in Colorado. Frank Endo is second from right.
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Part of these collections:
Frank Endo - Amache photos
(Item 9 of 12, “Looking for new recruits”)
Collected by: bokinaka
A military recruiter visited the camp. Thirty-one Japanese American soldiers from Amache died fighting in World War II , and thirty-four resisted the draft. Frank Endo is second from ...
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Frank Kikuchi at Manzanar
Contributed Item
Uploaded by: eishida
This picture was taken by Archie Miyatake at Manzanar. This group of young men were known as the Block 20 Boys, because they all lived on Block 20. Frank Kikuchi ...
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Part of these collections:
Frank Kikuchi
(Item 7 of 30, “At Manzanar”)
Collected by: eishida
Frank lived on Block 20 at the Manzanar concentration camp. The famous photographer, Toyo Miyatake, lived on this block as well, and Frank was good friends with his son, Archie ...
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Hisako Hibi - "Treasure hunting"
Contributed Item
Uploaded by: eishida
Description
Unframed stretched canvas. Image of two men walking in a field with a guard tower in the background. Thee are signs on a fence and mountains beyond the field.
Inscription
Signed, LR: ...
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Part of these collections:
Hisako Hibi
(Item 16 of 18, “Hisako Hibi - "Treasure hunting"”)
Collected by: eishida
After some time, the prisoners were allowed to go out on small, monitered excursions outside of the barbed wire boundaries. On these trips, some people found arrowheads belonging to native ...
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Hisako HIbi - "Topaz, Utah"
Contributed Item
Uploaded by: eishida
Description
Unframed stretched canvas. Image of grey, black, brown barracks, plume of smoke at left, a mountain peak in the background.
Inscription
Signed in caps, LR: Hisako Hibi / Nov. 1942 ; Back: ...
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Part of these collections:
Hisako Hibi
(Item 3 of 18, “Hisako HIbi - "Topaz, Utah"”)
Collected by: eishida
This rather desolate and barren looking painting reflects what Topaz concentration camp was like. Families were housed in one room barracks, which had walls that were very thin. These walls ...
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Hisako Hibi - "Tanforan Assembly Center"
Contributed Item
Uploaded by: eishida
Description
Unframed, stretched canvas. | Image of crowded rows of dark barracks in and around dirt racetrack at Tanforan Assembly Center in San Bruno, California. A blue bird flies overhead, top ...
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Part of these collections:
Hisako Hibi
(Item 2 of 18, “Hisako Hibi - "Tanforan Assembly Center"”)
Collected by: eishida
Hisako went to the Tanforan Assembly Center before going to Topaz concentration camp. The assembly center used to be a racetrack. And, as you can see, the buildings in the ...
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Hisako Hibi - "Study for a self-portrait"
Contributed Item
Uploaded by: eishida
Description
Self-portrait of Hisako Hibi. Visible from the shoulders up, a woman in a green blouse looks directly at the viewer. Her hair is parted in the middle and appears to ...
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Part of these collections:
Hisako Hibi
(Item 1 of 18, “Hisako Hibi - "Study for a self-portrait"”)
Collected by: eishida
Hisako painted this picture of herself. In it, she has on a collared shirt, and sits among what looks like a kitchen. She doesn't look enthused, probably due to the ...
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Hisako Hibi - "New Year's Mochi"
Contributed Item
Uploaded by: eishida
Description
Unstretched | Still-life of New Year's kagami mochi topped by tangerine in upper right corner on cloth backdrop. Cylinder-like object stands to the left of the mochi. Below cylindrical object ...
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Part of these collections:
Hisako Hibi
(Item 15 of 18, “Hisako Hibi - "New Year's Mochi"”)
Collected by: eishida
Hisako's first New Year at Topaz concentration camp did not include mochi, which is traditionally made and eaten in the Japanese culture during New Year celebrations. So, Hisako painted this ...
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Japanese American Students Withdraw
Contributed Item
Uploaded by: eishida
Theodore Roosevelt Senior High School newspaper announces the withdrawal of its Japanese American students, Los Angeles, 1942. This picture is courtesy of Theodore Roosevelt Senior High School (NRC.2002.27.8)
This picture is ...
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Part of these collections:
Landscaping America: Beyond the Japanese Garden - Timeline
(Item 5 of 11, “1940's”)
Collected by: eishida
1941
Japan attacks U.S. naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawai`i, prompting U.S. entry into World War II.
1942
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, authorizing forced removal and incarceration of West ...
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Jack Iwata - Back to Japan
Contributed Item
Uploaded by: eishida
Description
Group of people gathered in a large room waiting, sitting on benches. Most are wearing overcoats, jackets.
Caption
The people who are waiting for registration to go back to Japan by boat ...
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Part of these collections:
Jack Iwata Collection
(Item 32 of 32, “Jack Iwata - Back to Japan”)
Collected by: eishida
This is the group of people from Tule Lake that chose to return to Japan after World War II ended. Here, they waited inside the social hall until they could ...
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