We Came

We Came

Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945

This poem printed in the 1944 Heart Mountain High School yearbook, the Tempo, describes the arrival to Heart Mountain in terms of the bleak landscape and living conditions. Also including are a number of photographs superimposed over a drawing of a cloud of dust or snow in the wind.

George and Frank C. Hirahara Collection, sc 14.

Heart Mountain, Wyo.: Heart Mountain High School.

1944

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Original issues were scanned as 24 bit color 300 dpi tiffs on a Zeutschel OS 14000 A0-LS scanner. Using Adobe Photoshop CS2, the tiffs were merged into a single image, then converted to a 72 dpi jpeg.

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