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| Title | Workers on combine harvesting wheat, Minidoka, ca. 1943 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | ca. 1943 |
| Caption | Minidoka, Idaho, was one of ten internment camps for Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II. It held people originally from Seattle, Portland, Puyallup Valley, and Alaska. |
| Notes | Note from Wing Luke records: The internees were given opportunities to work outside the camp, usually as farm laborers, especially on the sugar beet farms.
Caption taken from Wing Luke records. |
| Subjects | Relocation camps--Idaho--Hunt
Minidoka Relocation Center
Japanese Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle
Farming--Idaho--Hunt
Harvesting machinery--Idaho--Hunt
World War, 1939-1945
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| Places | United States--Idaho--Hunt |
| Digital Collection | Wing Luke Asian Museum Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1992.041.004 CT |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or inquire about permissions contact: bfisher@wingluke.org. Please cite the Image Number. |
| Credit Line | Wing Luke Asian Museum Photograph Collection |
| Repository | Wing Luke Asian Museum |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic print: b&w; 3 1/2 x 5 in. |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
