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| Title | Nurse holding newborn baby at window in Minidoka hospital, ca. 1944 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | ca. 1944 |
| 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 | Two of the women are wearing candy-striper uniforms.
Photo apparently taken at the same time appeared in December 23, 1944 issue of the camp newspaper, the Minidoka Irrigator, with the following caption: Evacuee babies, two weeks old, and born at the local hospital, take a sleepy look at the world from the maternity ward. In spite of serious shortages of nurse's aides, the hospital has been run with utmost efficiency and deserves the thanks of every resident.
Caption taken from Wing Luke records. |
| Subjects | Relocation camps--Idaho--Hunt
Minidoka Relocation Center
Japanese Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle
Nurses--Idaho--Hunt
Infants--Idaho--Hunt
Hospitals--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 DF |
| 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; 2 x 2 in. |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 600 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
