Blue Patterned Cup from Minidoka National Historic Site (MIIN 289)
Located in southern Idaho, the Minidoka Relocation Center (now the Minidoka National Historic Site) was a World War II concentration camp (see: https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Sites_of_incarceration#Concentration_Camp) used to imprison people of Japanese descent — most of whom were U.S. Citizens — after President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942. Operated between 1942 and 1945, Minidoka was a site of incarceration for over 13,000 Japanese Americans.
For more information visit https://internmentarchaeology.org/record/artifact/217-841-427/
Digitized as part of the National Park Service funded Internment Archaeology Digital Archive Project (www.internmentarchaeology.org) - a collaboration between the Michigan State University Department of Anthropology, the MSU Digital Heritage Innovation Lab, and Matrix: The Center for Digital Humanities & Social Sciences; Directed by Stacey Camp and Ethan Watrall
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