Arts & Crafts

ARTS & CRAFTS IN CAMP

JUICHI HASHIMOTO

Native American Hunting Buffalo
Maker       Hashimoto, Juichi
Date       1942-1945
Medium   wood
Dimensions   H: 12 in, W: 24 in

Juichi Hashimoto was a farmer in Winton, California.
He created this wood carving at the Amache Relocation Center.

Photo courtesy of Stuart Iwasaki

NATIONAL ARCHIVE PHOTOS

Manzanar concentration camp, Manzanar, California. Opportunities are offered for handicraft at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. This craftsman is making geta - home-made wooden sandals.
4/2/1942
Albers, Clem, Photographer

National Archives Identifier: 536901 Local Identifier: 210-G-B154

Rohwer concentration camp, McGehee, Arkansas. Many of the evacuees are very skillful woodcravers. This man at Rohwer Relocation Center is at work on a cane.
12/9/1943
Van Tassel, Gretchen, Photographer

National Archives Identifier: 537383 Local Identifier: 210-G-B996

San Bruno, California. Father and son while away the hours carving small wooden animals for the children in front of their home in the barracks. They have been living at the Assembly center for approximately two weeks.
6/16/1942
Lange, Dorothea, 1895-1965, Photographer

National Archives Identifier: 537905 Local Identifier: 210-G-C600

The full caption for this photograph reads:
Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. In the Art School at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
6/30/1942
Lange, Dorothea, 1895-1965, Photographer

National Archives Identifier: 538180 Local Identifier: 210-G-C898

Manzanar concentration camp, Manzanar, California. Making artificial flowers in the Art School at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
6/30/1942
Lange, Dorothea, 1895-1965, Photographer

National Archives Identifier: 538183 Local Identifier: 210-G-C901

Tule Lake concentration camp, Newell, California. Shinkichi Kiyono, 56, evacuee from Longview, Washington, exhibits the cabinet which won for him first prize (a carpenter's plane) in a furniture building contest. All pieces of furniture were made from scrap lumber.
7/1/1942
Stewart, Francis Leroy, 1909-1992, Photographer

National Archives Identifier: 538214 Local Identifier: 210-G-D15

Tule Lake concentration camp, Newell, California. An evacuee schoolgirl proudly shows friends her artwork which was on display in the exhibit shows held on Labor Day.
9/7/1942
Stewart, Francis Leroy, 1909-1992, Photographer

National Archives Identifier: 538409 Local Identifier: 210-G-D220

Tule Lake concentration camp, Newell, California. Floral arrangements in the recreation halls were part of the celebration, which was held to commemorate Labor Day.
9/7/1942
Stewart, Francis Leroy, 1909-1992, Photographer

National Archives Identifier: 538411 Local Identifier: 210-G-D222

Manzanar concentration camp, Manzanar, California. Nancy Kawashima (left), and Emiko Hino, both from Los Angeles, arrange paper flowers for one of many art exhibitions at Manzanar.
6/1/1942
Stewart, Francis Leroy, 1909-1992, Photographer

National Archives Identifier: 538517 Local Identifier: 210-G-D549

Rohwer concentration camp, McGehee, Arkansas. An art class at a recreation center at the Rohwer project.11/25/1942Parker, Tom, Photographer
National Archives Identifier: 538986 Local Identifier: 210-G-E399

Granada concentration camp, Amache, Colorado. An adult education class in fine needlework. The teacher, Mrs. A. Okuda.
12/10/1942
Parker, Tom, Photographer

National Archives Identifier: 539024 Local Identifier: 210-G-E452

Granada concentration camp, Amache, Colorado. In the adult class in fine needle work, this center resident makes an embroidered wall hanging.
12/10/1942
Parker, Tom, Photographer

National Archives Identifier: 539031 Local Identifier: 210-G-E461

Granada concentration camp, Amache, Colorado. In an adult crafts class, these students unravel used onion sacks and wrap the ravelings around glass bottles to make flower pots.
12/10/1942
Parker, Tom, Photographer

National Archives Identifier: 539032 Local Identifier: 210-G-E462

Granada concentration camp, Amache, Colorado. Three members of an adult crocheting class. The instructor (center) teaches students to crochet everything from doilies to lapel trinkets and flowerpot covers.
12/10/1942
Parker, Tom, Photographer

National Archives Identifier: 539033 Local Identifier: 210-G-E463

Granada concentration camp, Amache, Colorado. Three students of an adult crafts class doing steamed crayon work in making tablecloths and wall hangings.
12/10/1942
Parker, Tom, Photographer

National Archives Identifier: 539034 Local Identifier: 210-G-E464

Heart Mountain concentration camp, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. A wood carver in a craft shop at the Heart Mountain Center.
1/11/1943
Parker, Tom, Photographer

National Archives Identifier: 539165 Local Identifier: 210-G-E607

Heart Mountain concentration camp, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. A Heart Mountain resident of Japanese ancestry adds finishing touches to a wood carving he has just completed in one of the shops at the center.
1/11/1943
Parker, Tom, Photographer

National Archives Identifier: 539167 Local Identifier: 210-G-E609

Heart Mountain concentration camp, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. M. Imafuji amid the oriental decorations which he has constructed out of scrap lumber in his barracks home at Heart Mountain. Though he enjoys surroundings, reconstructed from memory of his early childhood, Imafuji's devotion to Americanism is tested by his American Legion membership and his service with the A.E.F.
1/7/1943
Parker, Tom, Photographer

National Archives Identifier: 539179 Local Identifier: 210-G-E621

Heart Mountain concentration camp Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Minnie Negoro, an art student at the University of California in Los Angeles before the removal of persons of Japanese ancestry from west coast defense areas, is taking up the art of the potters wheel at the Heart Mountain concentration camp. Ceramics expert and artists, Daniel Rhodes, is instructing several resident students for future work in the Ceramics Plant.
1/11/1943
Parker, Tom, Photographer

National Archives Identifier: 539261 Local Identifier: 210-G-E706

Granada concentration camp, Amache, Colorado. The woodcarvings on this exhibit panel at the Arts and Crafts Festival, were made by students in adult education classes. This Festival was held March 6th to 8th in Terry Hall at the center and was sponsored by the Education Division and the "Pioneer," the Granada Relocation Center newspaper.
3/6/1943

National Archives Identifier: 539289 Local Identifier: 210-G-E758

Granada concentration camp, Amache, Colorado. Miscellaneous woodwork exhibited at the Arts and Crafts Festival which was held in Terry Hall March 6th to 8th. This festival was sponsored by the Education Division and the "Pioneer," the center newspaper. The pins (center) were made by Masaji Murai.
3/6/1943

National Archives Identifier: 539290 Local Identifier: 210-G-E759

Granada concentration camp, Amache, Colorado. Mrs. Tom Kusumi in charge of the needle work exhibit at the Arts and Crafts Festival, which was sponsored in the center by the Education Division and the "Pioneer," the center newspaper. Note the crocheted dolls in the background.
3/6/1943

National Archives Identifier: 539292 Local Identifier: 210-G-E761

Granada concentration camp, Amache, Colorado. Charcoal sketches drawn by art students in the Senior High School art class for the Arts and Crafts Festival. The center newspaper, the "Pioneer," and the Education Division sponsored this center festival.
3/6/1943

National Archives Identifier: 539295 Local Identifier: 210-G-E764

Granada concentration camp, Amache, Colorado. A miscellaneous assortment of items on display at the Arts and Crafts Festival held at Terry Hall at the Granada Center. Note the hanging basket with flower arrangement on the wall (right) and the Japanese musical instruments and wood carvings (left).
3/6/1943

National Archives Identifier: 539297 Local Identifier: 210-G-E766

Granada concentration camp, Amache, Colorado. This demonstration of artificial flower making is being performed by three centerites at the Arts and Crafts Festival which was sponsored by the Education Division and the "Pioneer," the camp newspaper.
3/6/1943

National Archives Identifier: 539305 Local Identifier: 210-G-E775

Jerome concentration camp, Denson, Arkansas. In an afternoon class, enrolling 150 students, center housewives make artificial flowers of tissue paper and paste. Afternoon and evening classes of home decorative arts are very popular among center residents, former west coast persons of Japanese ancestry, who attempt to soften the barren walls of their barracks homes with art objects of their own handiwork.
3/12/1943
Parker, Tom, Photographer

National Archives Identifier: 539315 Local Identifier: 210-G-E785

Jerome concentration camp, Denson, Arkansas. In the cabinet shop, at the Jerome Relocation Center, where 8,000 former Californians of Japanese ancestry now reside, John Onishi and M. Goto cut furniture pieces on a mitre box. The cabinet shop constructs office and school furniture for centeruse.
3/12/1943
Parker, Tom, Photographer

National Archives Identifier: 539334 Local Identifier: 210-G-E80

Jerome concentration camp, Denson, Arkansas. An adult education class at the Jerome Center, where a housewife prepares a wall plaque of artificial flowers, made form tissue paper. Afternoon and evening classes of home decorative arts are very popular among center residents, former west coast persons of Japanese ancestry, who attempt to soften the barren walls of their barracks homes with art objects of their own handiwork.
3/12/1943
Parker, Tom, Photographer

National Archives Identifier: 539343 Local Identifier: 210-G-E813

Jerome concentration camp, Denson, Arkansas. Two students, in an adult education class, getting pointers from instructor Masso Hatano in the art of "Ikebana". The exhibit illustrated, which was created by the instructor, is an example of the perfected art. All adult classes, which enable center residents, persons of Japanese ancestry removed from the west coast, to break the harshness of their barracks homes, by providing small art objects, are very popular.
3/12/1943
Parker, Tom, Photographer

National Archives Identifier: 539349 Local Identifier: 210-G-E819

Rohwer concentration camp, McGehee, Arkansas. In a wood carving class, this center resident, a former Californian of Japanese ancestry works on a patriotic carving out from a natural hardwood formation.
3/7/1943
Parker, Tom, Photographer

National Archives Identifier: 539386 Local Identifier: 210-G-E864

Rohwer concentration camp, McGehee, Arkansas. In a wood carving class, at the Rohwer concentration camp, center residents (former west coast persons of Japanese ancestry) enthusiastically take up the art of wood carving. They gather unusually shaped cypress roots and hard wood knots, as a basis for carving art objects.
3/7/1943
Parker, Tom, Photographer

National Archives Identifier: 539389 Local Identifier: 210-G-E867

Granada concentration camp, Amache, Colorado. Ship models made by Issei patient at Amache Hospital.
9/14/1945

National Archives Identifier: 539617 Local Identifier: 210-G-G98

Granada concentration camp, Amache, Colorado. Woodcarving - Head of Christ - by K. Kamoda, Granada Project, Amache, Colorado. January 9, 1944
10/15/1945
Iwasaki, Hikaru, 1923-, Photographer

National Archives Identifier: 539909 Local Identifier: 210-G-K388

Granada concentration camp, Amache, Colorado. Oil painting of irrigation ditch and section of Project Farm. Granada concentration camp, Amache, Colorado. February 15, 1945.
10/15/1945
Iwasaki, Hikaru, 1923-, Photographer

National Archives Identifier: 539910 Local Identifier: 210-G-K389

Granada concentration camp, Amache, Colorado. "Bucking Bronco" - Woodcarving. War Relocation Authority Granada Project, Amache, Colorado.
10/15/1945
Iwasaki, Hikaru, 1923-, Photographer

National Archives Identifier: 539915 Local Identifier: 210-G-K394

Granada concentration camp, Amache, Colorado. Watercolor painting of cactus by S. Kawashiri.10/15/1945
Iwasaki, Hikaru, 1923-, Photographer

National Archives Identifier: 539916 Local Identifier: 210-G-K395

Special thanks to:

Stuart Iwasaki
The National Archives
Alvin Takamori, GVJCI Day of Remembrance committee member