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Topaz High students present the American Flag before the start of a football game between Topaz High School and Millard County High School.
A former boy scout troop from Los Angeles performs at the Topaz Hospital dedication.
Japanese American men and adolescents clearing sagebrush to create room for animal forage and gardening.
Topaz Deputy Director, James F. Hughes, giving merit badges to Boy Scouts at a Court of Honor.
"The Combo" preforming at Topaz. Sadie Tokata (piano); Ich Sasaki (guitar); G. Sakashita; Kaz Maruoko (trumpet): Albert Noda (saxophone)
USS WEST VIRGINIA and USS ARIZONA smoking after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Elementary school children in the classroom, teacher visible in the background.
A group of Topaz High School students studying in a barrack or rec hall.
Jr. High students standing with Golden Wolff and LeGrand Noble (educators) in the front.
Japanese American children saying the Pledge of Allegiance. Image is identified as being a class at Raphael Weill Elementary School in San Francisco, California. Mary Ann Yahiro, the child in the center, was separated from her mother. Her mother was…
Lines to eat at Tanforan Race Track, an assembly center. Many of the Japanese Americans at Tanforan would be relocated to Topaz Relocation Center.
Relocation sign from Mr. and Mrs. K. Iseri in California in 1942. It reads: "Many thanks for your patronage. Hope to serve you in near future. God be with you till we meet again."
Wanto Company Grocery store in California with sign, "I AM AN AMERICAN" in 1942. Once relocation was ordered, Japanese Americans were forced to sell their businesses and leave their jobs regardless of loyalty to the United States.
Japanese American boy standing in front of barracks at Topaz. Back of the photo reads "Sumida."
Japanese American girl standing in front of drying laundry hanging outside of barrack.
Photograph of Topaz "residents" arriving at Topaz. Luggage is piled high next to barracks.
Photo of an adult night class at Topaz. There were many night classes at Topaz that taught adults subjects from English language and Americanization to Psychology.
Photograph of workers clearing fields for agricultural use. Some of the works appear to be adolescents.
Photograph of internees pounding dough to make mochi (a sticky Japanese rice cake) for New Years.
Image of high school students waiting for an assembly meeting.
Japanese Americans working in a strawberry patch, caption reads: "In the strawberry patch, Wada, founder of colony, talks things over with the superintendent of a neighboring mine.
