On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, the instrument that authorized the forced removal and incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans. Denied their civil liberties, they were held in camps operated by the War Relocation Authority. Between 1942 and 1944, some 33,000 individual contracts were issued for seasonal farm labor, with many working in the sugar beet industry. This exhibit introduces their story. For the full story, videos, lesson plan and more visit our website: http://www.uprootedexhibit.com/lesson-plans/

1. Photographic
Archive
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2. This project was funded, in part by a
grant from the U.S. Department of the
Interior, National Park Service,
Japanese American Confinement Sites
Grant Program and the Idaho
Humanities Council, a state-based
program of the National Endowment for
the Humanities. Any opinions, findings,
and conclusions or recommendations
expressed in this material are those of
the author(s) and do not necessarily
reflect the views of the U.S. Department
of the Interior or the Idaho Humanities
Council.

3. Section 1:
Russell Lee
Photographs
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints &
Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection

4. #1. Tent homes at the Shelley, Idaho farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073778-D.

5. #2. Twin Falls, Idaho farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073771-D.

6. #3. Rupert, Idaho farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073909-D.

7. #4. Nyssa, Oregon farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073602-D.

8. #5. Twin Falls farm labor camp, July 1942.
LC-USF34-073759-D.

9. #6. Housing at the Rupert farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073843-D.

10. #7. Child living at the Shelley farm labor
camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073787-D.

11. #8. Twin Falls, Idaho farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073757-D.

12. #9. The Ouchida family at the Nyssa farm labor camp, July 1942. Photographed clockwise from the bottom
left: Jack, Shizuko, Henry, Thomas, Kiuda, Shizuyo, Mary, and Rosie. LC-USF34-073354-D.

13. #10. Housing at the Twin Falls farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073768-D.

14. #11. Cooking rice at the Shelley farm
labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073801-D.

15. #12. Preparing lunch at the Rupert farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073844-D.

16. #13. Dr. Louie Maulding administering a vaccination to Yasu Teramura at the Nyssa farm labor camp, July 1942.
LC-USF34-073345-D.

17. #14. Workers from the Twin
Falls farm labor camp, July
1942. LC-USF34-073809-E.

18. #15. Worker from the Rupert farm
labor camp, July 1942.
LC-USF34-073923-E.

19. #16. Workers from the Nyssa farm labor camp going into town, July 1942. LC-USF33-013305-M1.

20. #17. May Uchiyama working near the
Nyssa farm labor camp, July 1942.
LC-USF34-073699-E.

21. #18. Worker from the Shelley farm
labor camp hoeing sugar beets,
July 1942. LC-USF34-073828-E.

22. #19. Workers from the Rupert farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073890-D.

23. #20. Pictured left to right: Anne Morishita, Nancy Morishita, Dorothy Iwasaki, Rose Iwasaki, and Kay Morishita at the
Nyssa farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073607-D.

24. #21. Tent homes at the Nyssa farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073349-D.

25. #22. Rupert farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF34-073906-D.

26. #23: Toilets used by Japanese
American farm workers at the Rupert
farm labor camp, July 1942.
LC-USF34- 073920-E.

27. #24. Laundry facilities at the Nyssa
farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-
USF34-073694-E.

28. #25. Farmers picking up workers from the Nyssa farm labor camp, July 1942. LC-USF33-013305-M1.

29. #26. Workers from the Nyssa farm labor camp visit a movie theater in the town of Nyssa, July 1942.
LC-USF34-073663-D.

30. Section 2:
WRA Photographs
Courtesy of The Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley

31. #27. Masayuki Tashima
volunteered from Poston,
Arizona to work in sugar beet
fields near Milliken, Colorado.
Photographed by Tom
Parker, November 1942.

32. #28. John Fukushima and
Masayuki Tashima arrived
from Poston to work in sugar
beet fields near Milliken,
Colorado. Photographed by
Tom Parker, November 1942.

33. #29. The Great Western
Sugar Company recruited
John Fukushima and
Takayuki Tashima from
Poston to top beets in
Johnstown, Colorado.
Photographed by Tom
Parker, November 1942.

34. #30. Japanese American
laborers near Johnstown,
Colorado. Photographed by
Tom Parker, November 1942.

35. #31. Philip Nakaoka swinging a
piked knife to pick up a sugar
beet. The beet is grasped in the
left hand and the top chopped
off with the knife. Photographed
by Tom Parker, November 1942

36. #32. Three men from Heart
Mountain harvesting sugar
beets on the farm of Rose
Tanaka, near Henderson,
Colorado. Tanaka and her
father own and operate the
farm. Photographed by Charles
E. Mace, October 1943.

37. #33. Rose Tanaka, owner
and operator of her own farm
near Henderson, Colorado, is
shown with Tom Tanabe who
volunteered to harvest sugar
beets from Rohwer,
Arkansas. Photographed by
Charles E. Mace, October
1943.

38. #34. Typical housing provided for Japanese American farm laborers near Keensburg, Colorado.
Photographed by Tom Parker, November 1942.

39. #35. Farm laborer from Granada,
Colorado. Photographed by Tom
Parker, November 1942.

40. #36. Before sugar beets can be
topped they must be pulled and
laid in rows for topping. Asao
Philip Nakaoka pulling a row of
sugar beets. Photographed by
Tom Parker, November 1942.

41. #37. For many laborers from West Coast cities, sugar beet work was their first farm experience.
Photographed by Tom Parker, September 1942.

42. #38. Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain, Wyoming registering for sugar beet labor in Wyoming, Montana, and
Colorado. Photographed by Tom Parker, September 1942.

43. #39. Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain board a bus for sugar beet fields in Montana.
Photographed by Tom Parker, September 1942.

44. #40. Japanese American who volunteered from Heart Mountain for sugar beet labor in Montana, cutting a
sugar beet under the direction of a farmer. Photographed by Tom Parker, September 1942.

45. #41. A farmer demonstrating sugar beet topping to Japanese Americans who volunteered from Heart Mountain to
relieve the labor shortage in Montana. Photographed by Tom Parker, September 1942.

46. #42. Six workers from Granada working in a sugar beet field near Prospect, Colorado.
Photographed by Tom Parker, November 1942.

47. #43. Masayuki Tashima, Takayuki Tashima, George Adachi, Asao Nakaoka, and Chihiro Sugi playing cards while living
in Colorado as sugar beet laborers. Photographed by Tom Parker, November 1942.

48. #44. George Adachi preparing dinner for himself and five other sugar beet laborers living in Colorado.
Photographed by Tom Parker, November 1942.

49. #45. One member of a family of former California residents topping beets near Prospect, Colorado.
Photographed by Tom Parker, November 1942.

50. #46. A typical house provided for Japanese American farm laborers, near Prospect, Colorado.
Photographed by Tom Parker, November 1942.

51. Section 3:
Personal
Photographs
Courtesy of Aya Fujii, Janet Koda, and Hisako
Yasuda

52. #47. Nyssa, Oregon farm labor camp, 1942.

53. #48. Ben Kamihira, Jim Fujii, and Tad Fujii waiting for the barber at the Nyssa farm labor camp, 1942.

54. #49. Noriko Kido and Aya Iwasaki at the
Nyssa farm labor camp, 1942.

55. #50. Hisako Kido at the Nyssa farm labor
camp, 1942.

56. #51. James Wakagawa, Mas Wada and Joe Umemoto at the Nyssa farm labor camp, 1942.

57. #52. Jim Umemoto doing laundry at the
Nyssa farm labor camp, 1942.

58. #53. Kayno Saito topping sugar beets in Malheur County, Oregon, 1942.

59. #54. Sugar beet harvest in Malheur County, 1942. Identified men include: George Iwasaki, standing on
the left; Yasu Teramura, standing on the right; and Yuhei Kido, wearing the newsboy cap.

60. #55. Kayno Saito with sugar beets in Malheur County, 1942.

61. #56. Moose Kuribayashi working in sugar beet fields in Malheur County, 1942.

62. #57. Yasukicki "Billy" Iwasaki at the Adrian, Oregon farm labor camp, circa 1943.

63. #58. Maako Endow, Taka Iwasaki, Mary Ouchida, and Kate Iwasaki at the Adrian farm labor camp, circa
1943.

64. #59. Masaka Endow, Alice Hashitani, Taka Iwasaki, and Kate Iwasaki at
the Adrian farm labor camp, circa 1943.

65. #60. George Funatake, wearing a Nyssa High
School letterman’s sweater, at the Adrian farm
labor camp, circa 1943.

66. #61. Mary Ouchida at the Adrian farm labor
camp, circa 1943.

67. #62. Aya Iwasaki, Noriko Kido, Mary Doi,
and Taka Iwasaki at the Adrian farm labor
camp, circa 1943.

68. #63. Sam Sakamoto, wearing a Nyssa High
School letterman’s sweater, at the Adrian farm
labor camp, circa 1943.

69. #64. Taka Iwasaki, Marge Kikuchi, and Kae Matsui at the Adrian farm
labor camp, circa 1943.

70. #65. Shig Hironaka at the Adrian farm labor camp, circa 1943.

71. #66. Taka Iwasaki, Noriko Kido, and Aya Iwasaki
at the Adrian farm labor camp, circa 1943.