Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- A general all over view of a section of the Granada Relocation Center, looking north and west
- Overview of the Granada Relocation Center, Camp Amache, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado, shows rows of prefabricated army-style barracks (120 x 20 feet.) Twelve of these one-story side gable barracks with tar-paper roofs made a block which...
- Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Detention facilities.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Detention facilities--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.; Relocation camps--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.
- 1942 December 12
- A counter in the cooperative dry goods store
- Japanese women pull merchandise for men in the cooperative dry goods store at Granada Relocation Center, Camp Amache, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. One young man wears eye glasses and holds a cigarette. Shirts, sweaters and stacks of boxes...
- Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Detention facilities.; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Detention facilities--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.; Dry goods...
- 1942 December 12
- Evacuee barracks showing gardens and trees
- A Japanese boy plays with the pedals of a bicycle in the yard between barracks, Granada Relocation Center, Camp Amache, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. Area includes gardens, grasses and trees with wooden stakes and strings marking walkways....
- Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Detention facilities.; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Bicycles & tricycles--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.; Detention...
- 1943 June 20
- Irrigating thinned lettuce on the project farm (K. Itow)
- K. Itow clears soil from an irrigation ditch amid rows of young lettuce on the project farm, Granada Relocation Center, Camp Amache, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. He wears a straw hat and has gloves in his back pocket. Other Japanese...
- Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Detention facilities.; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Detention facilities--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.; Farming--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.;...
- 1943 June 4
- The Ninomiya family in their barracks room at the Amache Center
- Interior view of the Ninomiya family's barracks at the Granada Relocation Center, Camp Amache, southeastern Colorado; shows Tosh Ninomiya at a folding card table reading a newspaper with a pipe in his mouth, Mrs. Ninomiya across the table from him,...
- Ninomiya family--Homes & haunts--1940-1950.; Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Detention facilities.; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Detention...
- 1942 December 9
- A scene from the Boy Scout Memorial Day Parade, which was held at this center on May 30
- Japanese boy scout troops stand in formation around a United States flag at half mast on the grounds of the Granada Relocation Center, Camp Amache, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. Most of the boys wear uniforms with scarves, some have hats,...
- Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Detention facilities.; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Detention facilities--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.; Political...
- 1943 May 30
- Typical scene of barracks construction with the prefabricated section lying in position
- Men hoist a section of prefabricated wall at the Granada Relocation Center, Camp Amache, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. Other army-style barracks show in various states of construction; some with roofs, others just with framing and...
- Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Detention facilities.; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Detention facilities--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.; Political...
- 1942 August 27
- Exhibits of work done by the various boy scout troops at Granada.
- Boy scout troop exhibits at the Granada Relocation Center, Camp Amache, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. A "Boy Scouts of America, Amache District" banner hangs above the exhibit, with a wooden sign "Troop 162" in front of it. A scout crest...
- World War, 1939-1945--Detention facilities.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Detention facilities--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.; Exhibitions--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.; Relocation camps--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.
- 1943 May 10
- Granada Center from the water tower
- Overview of prefabricated army-style barracks at the Granada Relocation Center, Camp Amache, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado, includes small trees and gardens with rolling prairie in the background.
- World War, 1939-1945--Detention facilities.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Detention facilities--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.; Relocation camps--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.
- 1942 June 20
- Harvesting the first spinach from the project farm
- Bushel baskets filled with spinach show along rows in a field at the project farm, Granada Relocation Center, Camp Amache, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. Japanese internees work in the distance. A row of deciduous trees forms a windbreak at...
- Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Detention facilities.; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Detention facilities--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.; Farming--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.;...
- 1943 June 4
- High School commencement
- Young Japanese women in white graduation gowns, high heels and mortar board caps and a men in dark gowns and caps assemble in a courtyard at the Granada Relocation Center, Camp Amache, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. The wind blows their...
- Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Detention facilities.; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Detention facilities--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.; Graduation...
- 1943 June 24
- Two Japanese-American soldiers, home on furlough, and their girlfriends, viewing the flower booth at the Arts and Crafts Festival
- Two Japanese soldiers in uniform pose with their girlfriends by a flower exhibit, at the Arts and Crafts Festival, Granada Relocation Center, Camp Amache, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. The women wear long wool coats, white blouses, skirts,...
- Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Detention facilities.; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Detention facilities--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.; Exhibitions--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.;...
- 1943 March 6
- The woodcarvings on this exhibit panel at the Arts and Crafts Festival were made by students in adult education classes
- Wood carvings made by Japanese students in adult education classes are exhibited at the Arts and Crafts Festival, Granada Relocation Center, Camp Amache, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. Subject matter includes traditional Japanese objects...
- Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Detention facilities.; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Detention facilities--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.; Exhibitions--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.;...
- 1943 March 6
- Mrs. Tom Kusumi, in charge of the needlework exhibit at the Arts and Crafts Festival
- Mrs. Tom Kusumi sits on a wood chair, between tables, crocheting in the exhibit at the Arts and Crafts Festival, Granada Relocation Center, Camp Amache, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. She wears a skirt and sweater and her hair is in a braid...
- Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Detention facilities.; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Crocheting--1940-1950.; Detention facilities--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.;...
- 1943 March
- Part of the Irish potatoes being grown on the center farm
- Several Japanese internees squat or bend to inspect a row of Irish potato plants in a field on the project farm, Granada Relocation Center, Camp Amache, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. A row of deciduous trees forms a windbreak at the side...
- Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Detention facilities.; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Detention facilities--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.; Farming--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.;...
- 1943 June 4
- First evacuee arrivals at Granada
- Japanese evacuees stand or sit with their suitcases and belongings in front of a Santa Fe and Topeka passenger train car. The men and women wait for the bus ride to Camp Amache, Granada Relocation Center, southeastern Colorado.
- Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Political prisoners--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.
- 1942 August 30
- First evacuees to arrive at the Granada railroad station
- Japanese men arrive from the Merced Assembly Center, California, by train, carrying suitcases and boarding school buses on their way to Camp Amache, Granada Relocation Center, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. A United States soldier in...
- Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Political prisoners--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.
- August 28, 1942
- Young evacuees carrying their personal belongings into their new quarters at this relocation center just getting under construction
- Japanese men enter barracks at Camp Amache, Granada Relocation Center, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. One carries suitcases and the other has a duffle bag over his back. Folded striped mattresses, canvas cots and a heating stove are the...
- Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Detention facilities.; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Detention facilities--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.; Political...
- August 28, 1942
- Chief of Internal Security, Tomlinson and a group of his police staff
- Chief of Internal Security, Tomlinson, and a group of Japanese police staff pose in a line in front of "Block 6F", Camp Amache, Granada Relocation Center, southeastern Colorado. Tomlinson wears a suit, vest, tie and hat, his staff wear jackets or...
- Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Detention facilities.; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Detention facilities--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.; Military...
- 1942 December 8
- A junior high school class in art, preparing their own Christmas cards
- Junior high students sit at tables making Christmas cards at the Granada Relocation Center, Camp Amache, southeastern Colorado. Hand made Christmas cards, decorated with Christmas and palm trees, bells, angels, snowmen, and candles, hang in rows on...
- Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Detention facilities.; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Detention facilities--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.; Political...
- 1942 December 10
- Milk and graham crackers being served to nursery school children in a block recreation hall
- Mrs. Sumi Kashiwagi pours milk from a white enamaled pitcher into a paper cup at a table full of nursery school children in a block recreation hall at Camp Amache, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. Young Japanese-American girls wear barrets in...
- Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Detention facilities.; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Children--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.; Detention facilities--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.;...
- 1942 December 11
- Typical scene of the construction of the barracks
- Men wearing overalls and hats ready wooden forms for concrete foundations at Granada Relocation Center, Camp Amache, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. Shovels lie on freshly dug piles of soil; wooden sawhorses, tool boxes and stacks of lumber...
- Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Detention facilities.; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Detention facilities--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.; Political...
- 1942 August 28
- A typical barracks building
- Japanese children play in front of one of the twenty-nine blocks, used as living quarters at Camp Amache, Prowers County, Colorado. The one-story, army-style barrack, (120 x 20 foot) is divided into six units, generally one per family. The...
- Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Detention facilities.; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Detention facilities--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.; Political...
- December 12, 1942
- The Auraria Project and Relocation Report on the Auraria Site by DURA's Executive Director J. Robert Cameron
- A block group of Japanese and Japanese-Americans, residents at the Granada Relocation Center listen to an explanation of the Army questionnaires
- Captain Willaim S. Fairchild stands behind a wooden lectern addressing Japanese internees at Camp Amache, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. Fairchild wears a military uniform; a United States flag stands near him. The front two rows of metal...
- Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Detention facilities.; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Detention facilities--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.; Political...
- 1943 February 9
- Relocation Survey of Residents in the Proposed Auraria Urban Renewal Project Area
- Western History Subject Index
- Indians. Relocation
- Informational Notice to All Families and Individuals Living In Model Cities Target Areas #1 and #2
- West Side Recorder Volume 6 No 8
- Granada
- Three Japanese men smile as they settle into their barracks at the Granada Relocation Center, Camp Amache, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. One sits on his suitcase, another on a folded mattress, the third leans on a heating stove with one...
- Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Detention facilities.; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Detention facilities--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.; Political...
- 1942
- Information Statement for Business Concerns and Other Non-Residential Establishments
- Golda Meir House Relocation, equipment, workers, preparation
- Relocation of the John Gully house
- Photograph of the relocation of the John Gully house. The house has been placed on steel girders and is being pulled by a truck. This house, moved to its present site in 1983, has been restored to its earliest known date of construction - 1871. ...
- Historic Buildings.; Historic preservation--Colorado--Aurora.; Historic buildings--Colorado--Aurora.; Architecture--Colorado--Aurora--History.
- Undated
- Relocation of the John Gully house
- Photograph of the relocation of the John Gully house. The house has been placed on steel girders and has a ladder on the roof. This house, moved to its present site in 1983, has been restored to its earliest known date of construction - 1871. ...
- Historic Buildings.; Historic preservation--Colorado--Aurora.; Historic buildings--Colorado--Aurora.; Architecture--Colorado--Aurora--History.
- Undated
- Relocation of the Englewood Santa Fe Railroad Depot
- Photograph of the physical relocation of Englewood Santa Fe Railroad Depot to it's current site in Englewood, Colorado in 1994. The depot can be seen on its steel supports while it is being pulled by a large truck. The 1915 Englewood Depot is the...
- Santa Fe Depot (Englewood, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company--1990-2000.; Historic Buildings.; Historic preservation--Colorado--Englewood.; Historic buildings--Colorado--Englewood.;...
- 1994 October
- Adelaide Station, F. & C. C. R. R.
- Adelaide station along the Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad, middle of Phantom Canyon, Fremont County, Colorado. View downgrade before 1896 relocation of track between Milepost 12 and 18 due to flash floods. Small Victorian wood frame depot...
- Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad Company--1890-1900.; Adelaide (Fremont County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Adelaide--1890-1900.; Railroads--Colorado--Adelaide--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1896]
- Governors Day at Georgetown
- Participants of the Governors Day festivities gather in front of the Julius Pohle (a German chemist who become manager of the Lebanon Mining Company) house in Georgetown, Colorado. Historic house in process of relocation to make room for the new...
- Pohle, Julius--Homes & haunts.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Houses--Colorado--Georgetown--1960-1970.
- December 15, 1968
- Japanese family "deported", en route to Granada, May 1942
- View of a Japanese family on their way to the Granada Relocation Center, Camp Amache, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado, includes two women in dresses, heels and bonnets. One holds a baby, and a man in a sweater, tie, eye glasses and a hat,...
- Japanese--Capture & imprisonment--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners.; Amache (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Political prisoners--Colorado--Amache--1940-1950.
- May 1942
- Union Pacific RR. depot circa 1980, Sterling, Colo.
- View of the brick and stone Union Pacific Railroad depot during a relocation and construction renovation project in Sterling (Logan County), Colorado. The one story building has a hip and gable roof, arched waiting room windows, knee brace...
- Union Pacific Railroad Company--1980-1990.; Sterling (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Sterling--1980-1990.; Remodeling--Colorado--Sterling--1980-1990.
- [between 1984 and 1986]
- D&RGW
- View of a new railroad line construction site in Arboles on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation in southern Colorado. Railroad ties and new Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad tracks are in place. Shows a new concrete bridge over the Piedra...
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1960-1970.; Arboles (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Southern Ute Indian Reservation (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Colorado--Arboles--1960-1970.;...
- 1962 June
- Counting Indians at Fort Sumner
- A man in military uniform stands near Native American (Navajo) men and women at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, probably after their forced relocation from their homelands known as the "Long Walk." They were then transferred to the Bosque Redondo...
- Indians of North America--New Mexico--Fort Sumner--1860-1870.; Navajo Indians--New Mexico--Fort Sumner--1860-1870.; Fort Sumner (N.M.)--1860-1870.; Soldiers--New Mexico--Fort Sumner--1860-1870.
- [between 1864 and 1865?]
- Western History Subject Index
- Indians. Relocation
- Western History Subject Index
- Indians. Relocation
- Western History Subject Index
- Uniform relocation act. Denver
- Auraria Remembered
- Exterior of the John Gully House
- Exterior photograph of the side of the John Gully House, in Aurora, Colorado, prior to relocation. This house, moved to its present site in 1983, has been restored to its earliest known date of construction - 1871. The dwelling is associated with...
- Historic Buildings.; Historic preservation--Colorado--Aurora.; Historic buildings--Colorado--Aurora.; Architecture--Colorado--Aurora--History.
- Undated
- Side view of the John Gully House
- Exterior photograph of the side of the John Gully House, in Aurora, Colorado, prior to relocation. This house, moved to its present site in 1983, has been restored to its earliest known date of construction - 1871. The dwelling is associated with...
- Historic Buildings.; Historic preservation--Colorado--Aurora.; Historic buildings--Colorado--Aurora.; Architecture--Colorado--Aurora--History.
- Undated
- Exterior of the John Gully House
- Exterior photograph of the side of the John Gully House, in Aurora, Colorado, prior to relocation. This house, moved to its present site in 1983, has been restored to its earliest known date of construction - 1871. The dwelling is associated with...
- Historic Buildings.; Historic preservation--Colorado--Aurora.; Historic buildings--Colorado--Aurora.; Architecture--Colorado--Aurora--History.
- Undated
- Side entrance of the John Gully House
- Exterior photograph of the side entrance of the John Gully House, in Aurora, Colorado, prior to relocation. This house, moved to its present site in 1983, has been restored to its earliest known date of construction - 1871. The dwelling is...
- Historic Buildings.; Historic preservation--Colorado--Aurora.; Historic buildings--Colorado--Aurora.; Architecture--Colorado--Aurora--History.
- Undated
- Front of John Gully house
- Exterior photograph of the John Gully house after renovation and relocation. House is located in Aurora, Colorado. This house, moved to its present site in 1983, has been restored to its earliest known date of construction - 1871. The dwelling...
- Historic Buildings.; Historic preservation--Colorado--Aurora.; Historic buildings--Colorado--Aurora.; Architecture--Colorado--Aurora--History.
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