LIFE IN MANZANAR

Figure 37: Ansel Adams photo: LC-A351-3-M-28.

Figure 38: Manzanar Relocation Camp,1943. Ansel Adams photo: LC-A351-3-M-4-Bx. The inset (by the author) is a blow-up of the central portion of the image, showing the guard tower in the distance at the west end of the street. The War Relocation Authority permitted very few photos of the Relocation Camps to be taken which showed the guard towers.

Figure 39: LC caption: Mrs. Ryie Yoshizawa, instructor, standing in front of class of women students, one woman in foreground with dressmaker's dummy. Ansel Adams photo, Library of Congress No. LC-A35-5-M-24.

Figure 40: LC caption: Mrs. Yaeko Nakamura looks at puzzles with her daughters, Louise Tami Nakamura and Joyce Yuki Nakamura in a store with assistance from clerk, Fred Moriguchi. Ansel Adams photo: LC-A35-5-M-39.

Figure 41: LC caption: Roy Takeno reads a copy of the Manzanar Free Press in front of the newspaper office, mountains in the background. Ansel Adams photo: LC-A35-4-M-4.

Figure 42: LC caption: Standing on the step at the entrance of a dwelling, left to right: Louise Tami Nakamura, holding the hand of Mrs. Naguchi, and Joyce Yuki Nakamura. Ansel Adams photo: LC-A351-3-M-22.

Figure 43: While these internees do indeed have a bare lightbulb overhead, their living conditions are not as primitive as the rhetoric of some historians may imply. LC caption: Mr. & Mrs. Richard Izuno and children. Ansel Adams photo: LC-A351-3-M-39.

Figure 44: In all, nearly 6,000 babies were born in the Relocation Camps during the internments. Ansel Adams photo: LC-A35-5-M-4.

Figure 45: LC caption: M. Ogi, S. Sugimoto, and Bunkichi Hayashi standing among shelves with boxes in warehouse. Ansel Adams photo: LC-A351-3-M-21.

Figure 46: LC caption: People standing outside Catholic church at Manzanar Relocation Center. Ansel Adams photo: LC-A351-3-M-1.

Figure 47: LC caption: People in snow outside a Buddhist church. Ansel Adams photo: LC-A35-6-M-34.

Figure 48: LC caption: People in snow outside a Buddhist church. Ansel Adams photo: LC-A35-6-M-34.

Figure 49: LC caption: Japanese American women playing volleyball, one-story buildings and mountains in the background. Ansel Adams photo: LC-A35-6-M-14.

Figure 50: LC caption: Japanese Americans observe an amateur baseball game in progress; one-story buildings and mountains in the background. Ansel Adams photo: LC-A351-3-M-6.

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Job postings allowed internees to leave the camp and resettle around the country. Ansel Adams photos: LC-A35-4-M-1
and LC-A351-3-M-12.

Figure 53: Detail from Help Wanted board. Already in 1943 internees were being encouraged to leave the camp, and settle in areas outside the west coast. Ansel Adams photo: LC-A35-4-M-2.

Figure 54: LC caption: Farmer Benji Iguchi, full-length portrait, standing in a storage shed between two large stacks of squashes. Ansel Adams photo: LC-A35-5-M-41.

Figure 55: LC caption: Farm workers harvesting crops in field, mountains in the background. Ansel Adams photo: LC-A351-3-M-14.

Some Faces of Manzanar

Figure 56: LC-A35-4-M-26-Ax

Figure 57: LC-A35-4-M-61

Figure 58: LC-A35-4

Figure 59: LC-A35-4-M-63

Figure 60: LC-A35-4-M-31