Graduation program, Rohwer High School
date: label: date made
content: 1943-1945
notes: label: Description
content: Formal education was offered at the relocation camps. Each camp acted as an individual school district. Instructors were either non-Japanese professionals brought into the camps from the outside or qualified residents. Although camps offered education programs, they suffered from lack of appropriate supplies like textbooks and typewriters.
label: Description
content: Mrs. Mabel Rose Vogel was an art teacher in Rohwer camp, and retained many of her student's art projects. Many were donated to the Smithsonian for its exhibit, but a roomful remained in her apartment.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
title: label: Title
content: Graduation program, Rohwer High School
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, General
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content: Military
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Japanese American Internment Era
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mabel Rose Vogel
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.3144.45
label: nonaccession number
content: 1986.3144
label: catalog number
content: 1986.3144.45
objectType: label: Object Name
content: graduation program
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink, black (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pencil (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in; 21.59 cm x 13.97 cm