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82.01.02.P
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Left to right: Project Director, Guy G. Robertson, Sgt. Ben Kuroki, and Sgt. Akahashi (No longer in image).... Ben will stay around [recruiting] till April 30th and then move to other centers. Picture taken April 24, 1944.
82.01.03.P
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A Japanese female dressed in kimono performing a traditional dance. No date or other accompanying information
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Tosh Asano, of the "All State football" team is run out of bounds. Heart Mountain residents are ardent football fans as evidenced in this scene at one of he recent games between the "All Stars" and the "Jack Rabbits". Residents brave sub zero weather to cheer their favorites. War Relocation Authority, Midland Savings Bldg., Denver, CO, No. G-198, photographer: Hikaru Iwasaki, November 25, 1943
82.01.05.P
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Cold Wyoming winters make for hard, solid ice, and residents at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center were quick to construct ice skating ponds. To former Californians, the sport was new and during the first weeks, many, like the two lads shown, were learning to skate the hard way. War Relocation Authority, Midland Savings Bldg., Denver, CO, No. E-666, photographer: Tom Parker, January 10, 1943
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A center [HMRC] resident watches from the bank of the Highline Ditch canal, main irrigation water source for this relocation center's farm lands, as the first water finds it's way along the just completed excavation. War Relocation Authority, Midland Savings Bldg., Denver, CO, No. E-926, photographer: Chas. E. Mace, June 5, 1943
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Football fans of brave sub-zero weather to watch a hotly contested game between two of the favorite teams the "All Stars" and the "Jack Rabbits". War Relocation Authority, Midland Savings Bldg., Denver, CO, No. G-213, photographer: Hikaru Iwasaki, November 25, 1943
82.01.09.P
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Scene during a game between football teams, the "All Stars" and the "Jack Rabbits," two of the favorite teams of Heart Mountain football fans. War Relocation Authority, Midland Savings Bldg., Denver, CO, No. G-208, photographer: Hikaru Iwasaki, November 25, 1943
82.01.10.P
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Real action can be expected when two of the Junior age teams tangle on the gridiron. War Relocation Authority, Midland Savings Bldg., Denver, CO, No. G-191, photographer: Hikaru Iwasaki, November 20, 1943
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Land cleared of sagebrush in fall 1943 and corrugated against erosion. Assistant Farm Superintendent Eiichi Sakauye, checking the moisture for early spring crop planting. War Relocation Authority, Midland Savings Bldg., Denver, CO, No. I-64, photographer: Hikaru [I]wasaki, March 10, 1944

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