Life In Manzanar Internment Camp

Ansel Adams is best known for his landscape photography, but during WWII he documented Japanese-Americans interned at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California. Adams wanted to show how "these people, suffering under a great injustice... had overcome the sense of defeat and dispair [sic] by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment."

Farmer with cabbages

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Fashion designing class

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Tom Kobayashi

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Girl with volleyball

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Hidemi Tayenaka, woodworker

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Mrs. Nakamura and her daughters

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Tojo Miatake Family

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Manzanar street scene

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Tom Kobayashi

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Roy Takeno's desk

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Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi

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Cemetery monument

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Noon mess line

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Farm workers

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Mementos in the Yonemitsu household

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Choir

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Frank Hirosama in a laboratory

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School children

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Reading the newspaper

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Calisthenics

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Town Hall meeting

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Mr. Matsumoto surrounded by children

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Orphanage

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Aiko Hamaguchi with patient

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Relocation departure

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