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Clark Kinsey photograph of Japanese lumber camp workers and their families in Washington

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Description: A group portrait of lumber camp workers of Japanese heritage, and their families, in front of a camp building with railroad tracks at the doorstep. The gelatin silver photograph, 11 x 14 inches, depicts 31 men, three women, several young children and babies, and a dog. A few men are holding babies and one man is posed holding a watering can above a flowering planter box. Handwriting at the bottom of the print reads: "This is All Japanese Boys at Camp" and the photographer's credit is in the negative: # 65 Kinsey Photo. These loggers worked for the Manley-Moore Lumber Company, which operated approximately 1910 to 1934 on a tract of old growth timber in Pierce County, Washington. (Source: Clark Kinsey Photograph Collection, University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections.)
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Production date: approximately 1927.
Call number: photPF 26026

Lumber cars at San Pedro Lumber Co

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Lumber is stacked on flatcars and on the ground around railroad tracks in a lumber yard in Pasadena, California. Two men work in the yard. A small building with a sign reading "San Pedro Lumber Co.," sits toward the back of the yard, and scattered residences are in the distance.

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Photograph album of young women at a boarding school or beach camp

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An unidentified photograph album of snapshots chiefly of a group of young women who are possibly at a boarding school or summer camp in Southern California. They are seen in bathing clothes at a pool, on the beach, walking on boardwalks, putting on plays in costumes in a large house, and sometimes with young men. There are also some snapshots of family groups, many taken inside an Arts and Crafts style house. One photograph shows a woman holding an advertising sign for Uneeda Biscuits (introduced in 1898), made by the National Biscuit Company.

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Photograph album of Japanese American residents of California

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A photograph album dating from the early 1920s reflecting the life of an unidentified Japanese American family based in or near the agricultural community of Brawley, in Imperial County, California. "Brawley Bottling Works" crates are seen in an image of Japanese American farm workers, and other images include the interior of a canned goods store, agricultural workers and crops, farm trucks, and a man with plants in a greenhouse. The album contains snapshots of many different Japanese American men, women, and children, almost always dressed in fine Western clothing, seen in social gatherings in mostly rural settings, with some images of other locations. The album doesn't have any identifications, though recognizable locations in California are: the Sacramento Capitol building; the beach in Venice; a bookstore with a crate marked First Street, Los Angeles; and men posing with automobiles with license plates that say "CAL." Notable images are a group portrait of men clowning around while drinking beer, and ceremonial outdoor gatherings with American and Japanese flags flying. Photographs taken in Japan include a Christian church and school in the Tadanoumi area of Hiroshima Prefecture, and family groups with people wearing both Japanese and Western clothing.

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Los Angeles Times Catalina Island Camp photographs

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Bound scrapbook of snapshots belonging to Kenneth E. Tipton, an employee at the Los Angeles Times's Catalina Island summer camp from 1915-1918. The photographs, all from 1915, show views of the camp and its operations, as well as scenes of Avalon, and primarily depict young men and women posing and enjoying recreational activities at the beach and around the island. The album is accompanied by a 1917 list of weekly balances for individuals at the Times Camp with an agent for the Sanitary Laundry Co. of Los Angeles and Golden State Laundry of San Pedro and a note from the Manager of Circulation, The Times-Mirror Company, dated September 23, 1918, and addressed "To Whom it May Concern" recommends Kenneth E. Tipton as an employee: "For the past four seasons he has handled our Camp at Catalina Island, superintending the construction of the Camp, and management of from fifty to one hundred boys."

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Transportation of Japanese Americans to Manzanar Internment Camp, Venice, California

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Image of Japanese Americans from Venice, Santa Monica, and Malibu reporting to the northwest corner of Venice Boulevard and Lincoln Boulevard in Venice in Los Angeles, California, in April 1942, for transportation to the Manzanar Internment Camp. The individuals stand with luggage and their belongings next to a truck marked "Santa Fe." This intersection is where a former Civil Control Station was located.

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Cheevers and his two wives, Tabenanaka and his wife, and U.S. interpreter

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Comanche men and women, and one white man, at a temporary camp with the Grand Council meeting, with buggy behind them. The men are holding rifles.

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Clark Kinsey photograph of Japanese lumber camp workers and their families in Washington

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