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Digital Resources

Digital resources available at Heart Mountain include photographs in online collections.
Photo by Yoshio Okumoto

Heart Mountain Relocation Center Roster

This digital resources list was obtained from the National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 210. Any errors or omissions that have come to our attention have been amended on our hard copy at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center. 

Please contact us at info@heartmountain.org if you identify any further roster inconsistencies. Adjustments will only be made on the on-site, hard copy, and will not be reflected on the electronic copies available on our website.

Click below to view or download the digital resources sections of the Roster of those incarcerated at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center. Incarcerees are listed alphabetically by last name. The Roster has been imaged only and is NOT full-text searchable.

Note: Depending on your connection speed, these large files may take several minutes to download.

Abe – Hamamoto Hamamoto – Isawa Ise – Kobata Kobata – Miyamoto
Miyamoto – Nishimoto Nishimoto – Sakamoto Sakamoto – Takata Takata – Watanabe Watanabe-Zaiman

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Photo Research & Online Archive Resources

Further digital resources are available from a wide variety of sources. Check out some of these organizations and websites below.

Densho Archives

Primary sources that document the Japanese American experience from immigration in the early 1900s through redress in the 1980s with a strong focus on the incarceration.

Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA)

Contains primary sources including: Personal diaries, letters, photographs, and drawings; US War Relocation Authority materials; and personal histories.

CSU Japanese American History Digitization Project

A Collaborative Digital History Project of the California State University Libraries

Library of Congress: “Japanese-American Internment Camp Newspapers, 1942 to 1946”

Produced by the Japanese Americans incarcerated at assembly centers and “relocation centers” around the country during World War II, these newspapers provide a unique look into the daily lives of the people who were held in these camps.

George and Frank C. Hirahara Photograph Collection, 1943-1945 (WSU)

The George and Frank C. Hirahara Collection is considered the largest private collection of photos depicting life in the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain Wyoming. This collection contains over 2000 images taken and processed from January 1943 to November 1945. Collection maintained by Washington State University.

Hansel Mieth and Otto Hagel Collection, Center for Creative Photography (ASU)

Mieth and Hagel visited Heart Mountain in 1942, possibly on assignment for LIFE magazine. Heart Mountain photos are listed on pages 24-25 of the finding guide. Archive is maintained at Arizona State University.

Jack Richard Collection, McCracken Archives, Buffalo Bill Center of the West

Collection of photographs from Cody photojournalist Jack Richard. Contains many scenes from Heart Mountain, including aerial views and images of the camp being built.

Bill Manbo Papers, American Heritage Center (UW)

The collection contains 30 color slides from Heart Mountain, two photos from a Cody, Wyoming studio, and a letter from Bacon Sakatani, 7-6-1993 which gives an inventory of the slides, numbered order, and content identified and described.

Estelle Ishigo Photographs, American Heritage Center (UW)

Photographs of Arthur and Estelle Ishigo before and during their internment at Heart Mountain. Photographs of Estelle’s drawings that were used in the printing of Lone Heart Mountain.

Heart Mountain Relocation Center Records, American Heritage Center (UW)

Collection contains the Heart Mountain charter, community minutes, notes on resettlement plans, transcripts of a trial, and documents in Japanese.

John A. Nelson Papers, American Heritage Center (UW)

Papers of Heart Mountain administrative officer and assistant project director John A. Nelson.

Ethel Ryan Collection, Northwest College

Collection of photographs of Heart Mountain from various sources.

UCLA: Estelle Ishigo papers 1941-1957

The collection consists of documents, records, correspondence, photographs, paintings, pencil drawings and sketches, and watercolor sketches related to Estelle Ishigo’s life in the Pomona Assembly Center, California and the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming. There is also material related to the Ishigo’s postwar resettlement in Southern California. Archive maintained at UCLA Library Special Collection

Forrest E. LaViolette Slides and Photographs, Apr. 1 to Oct. 1, 1943, University of Washington

Color slides of Heart Mountain from Dr. LaViolette’s time on staff

Finding Aid to the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Records 1930-1974

Contains numerous records and reports from the administrators and staff of the camps. From the UC Berkeley Bancroft Library.

Finding Aid to War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945 circa 1941-1947

Contains government photographs of the camps and the resettlement program. From the UC Berkeley Bancroft Library.