This document is an Order of Merit that was presented to Roy Nakano from the War Relocation Authority. It was awarded to evacuee workers who demonstrated outstanding work in their service to the WRA. The WRA appreciated the hard work that Roy, as well as many other Japanese American workers, did during their imprisonment. Note how the document is addressed to "Mr. Ray Nakano", spelling Roy's name wrong.
This photograph is of the guard tower from the Jerome incarceration camp in Denson, Arkansas. The Nakano family were relocated to the Jerome camp after Tule Lake. Guard towers like this were commonplace in prison camps like Jerome. Guards would watch over the Japanese Americans constantly during the imprisonment. The barbed wire behind the guard tower really shows how these camps were prisons. The Japanese Americans who were forcibly removed to these camps lost privacy in almost all aspects of their lives.