Showing posts with label Japanese internment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japanese internment. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Ansel Adams - Manzanar

 Relocation departure, Manzanar Relocation Center, 1943
  
 Relocation good-byes, Manzanar Relocation Center, 1943
  
 Richard Kobayashi, farmer with cabbages, Manzanar Relocation Center, California, 1943
  
 School children, Manzanar Relocation Center, California, 1943
  
 School children, Manzanar Relocation Center, California, 1943
  
Sumiko Shigematsu at power machine, Manzanar Relocation Center, California, 1943
  
 Sumiko Shigematsu, foreman of power sewing machine girls, 
Manzanar Relocation Center, California, 1943
  
 Tom Kobayashi, Manzanar Relocation Center, California, 1943
  
 Tōyō Miyatake Family, Manzanar Relocation Center, 1943
  
 View south from Manzanar to Alabama Hills, Manzanar Relocation Center, 1943
  
 Volley ball game, Manzanar Relocation Center, California, 1943
  
Yoshiko Joan Mori, stenographer in Education Office, Manzanar Relocation Center, 1943

Sunday, September 8, 2013

Charles Mace

These are photos of Japanese-Americans reintegrating into society after the wartime internment.

 Michiko Kataoka, a freshman, and Meriko Hoshiyama, a junior, both from Manzanar 
(left to right in picture), with fellow students at the entrance to the campus library 
at the University of California at Los Angeles. 1945
  
 Michiko Kataoka, a freshman, and Meriko Hoshiyama, a junior, both from Manzanar, 
with fellow students on the University of California campus at Los Angeles. 1945
    
Nisei students arriving on the campus at the 
University of California in Los Angeles. 1945
 
 Miss Irene Eiko Yonemura works in the Peoria, Illinois, public library, where 
she has found work much to her liking and her training. Miss Yonemura is from 
the Poston center and came to Peoria in the summer of 1943. 1944
  
 Miss Julie Sugimoto (l) and her sister June (r), work in the home of the Burchette family 
in Peoria, Illinois. June, plus her work at the home, is learning to be a photo retoucher. 1944
[photo retouching by hand? thank god for the photoshop era!!]
  
 Miss Susie Yuasa, 18, a former evacuee from the Jerome Relocation Center, 
now employed in a Chicago candy factory, turns from her task momentarily 
to display the familiar symbol of victory. 1943
  
 Mr. and Mrs. Toshio Kimura have reopened their large house in San Jose, and have as their 
guests two other families who are sharing the dwelling pending finding places of their own. 1945
  
 Naomi Asakura, age 4, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Taki Asakura, 
who returned to Santa Barbara from Gila River on March 17, is seen 
enjoying the company of a puppy given to her by a neighbor. 1945

 No discrimination in this huddle. Akshi Alan Asakora plays football in the yard 
of the Lincoln School in Santa Barbara, where he has resumed studies since 
his family returned to their former home from the Gila River Center. 1945
   
 The honored American custom of raiding the icebox is especially pleasurable 
to the Yamadas after life in a relocation center. Peoria, Illinois, 1944
  
 The Oda sisters like to entertain their friends in their apartment in Rockford, Illinois. 1944
  
 The Taki Asakuras, who arrived in Santa Barbara from Gila River are seen escorting two 
veterans of the 100th Infantry Battalion on a tour of Santa Barbara's scenic spots. 1945
  
When the Nisei get together for social entertainment in Chicago, their Caucasian friends also participate in the general fun. At the mike is a popular Chicago night club singer who has just presented one of her specialties. 1944

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Russell Lee - Japanese Internment

 Los Angeles, California. Japanese-Americans boarding a train for Owens Valley, 1942
  
 Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of the Japanese-Americans from 
West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order, 1942
  
 Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of the Japanese-Americans from West Coast 
areas under U.S. Army war emergency order. Japanese-Americans going to camp 
at Owens Valley gather around baggage car at the old Santa Fe Station, 1942
  
 Photographers at the train taking Japanese-Americans to Owens Valley, 1942
  
 Santa Anita reception center, Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese 
and Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency 
order. Japanese-Americans waiting to be registered, 1942
  
 Santa Anita reception center, Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese 
and Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency 
order. Japanese-Americans waiting to be registered, 1942
  
 Santa Anita reception center, Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese 
and Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency 
order. Japanese-Americans waiting to be registered, 1942
  
 Santa Anita reception center, Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese 
and Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency 
order. Registering Japanese-Americans as they arrive, 1942
  
 Santa Anita reception center, Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of 
Japanese and Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army 
war emergency order. Registering Japanese-Americans, 1942
  
 Santa Anita reception center, Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of 
Japanese and Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army 
war emergency order. Registering Japanese-Americans, 1942
  
 Soldiers supervising the loading of the baggage of Japanese-Americans 
en route to Owens Valley reception center, 1942
  
 Malheur County, Oregon. Japanese-American girls 
washing celery sprouts for transplanting, 1942
  
 Malheur County, Oregon. Japanese-American 
who lives on the farm as a day laborer, 1942
  
 Nyssa, Oregon. FSA mobile camp. A Japanese-American farm laborer 
from the camp selecting a gramaphone record in the recreation tent, 1942
  
 Nyssa, Oregon. FSA mobile camp. A Japanese-American 
farm worker's family having lunch, 1942
  
 Nyssa, Oregon. FSA mobile camp. Japanese-American 
farm worker's family outside near the tent, 1942
  
 Nyssa, Oregon. FSA mobile camp. Japanese-American 
farm workers leaving the camp to work in the fields, 1942
  
 Nyssa, Oregon. FSA mobile camp. Japanese-American 
farm workers leaving the camp to work in the fields, 1942
  
 Nyssa, Oregon. FSA mobile camp. Japanese-American 
farm workers leaving the camp, 1942
  
Nyssa, Oregon. FSA mobile camp. Japanese-American 
farm workers leaving the camp, 1942

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Tom Parker

 Six-year-old Reiko Masado, convalescing from a serious illness, is looked after 
by nurse's aide, Chiyo Okata. Denson, Arkansas, 1943
  
 The ice cream counter in the community operated stores. 
Heart Mountain, Wyoming, 1942
  
 The kitchen of the interior of the store in Block 8, 
showing the grocery section. Denson, Arkansas, 1942
  
 The magazine counter at one of the cooperative stores 
in the Amache Relocation Center, 1942
  
 The Ninomiya family in their barracks room at the Amache Center, 1942
  
 The youngest of the Kobayashi family, out for an afternoon 
sunning with a neighbor. Amache, Colorado, 1942
  
 Three young evacuees drop their baggage and relax to argue about whose bunk goes 
in which corner on arriving at their new quarters. Amache, Colorado, 1942
  
 Transplanting trees from existing farms to the hospital area 
at the Topaz Relocation Center. Topaz, Utah, 1942
  
 Two adult women and a small girl occupy this 
barracks room at the Amache Center, 1942
  
 Two days after arrival and the first Sunday afternoon finds 
these volunteer workers of the first contingent have arranged 
their barracks as comfortably as possible. Amache, Colorado, 1942
  
 Two Nisei girls perform a Hawaiian Hula at a block talent show 
held in the mess hall. Amache, Colorado, 1942
  
 Typical scene in the Community Enterprise Stores at the 
Heart Mountain Relocation Center. Heart Mountain, Wyoming, 1942
  
 When the Uno baby takes his sunning, it is a block attraction, 
and papa Howard Uno, who has since volunteered in the United States Army, 
just stands around and beams. Amache, Colorado, 1942
  
 With her son, young Dennis, in her arms, Mrs. T. Sasabushi, Nisei resident at the 
Granada center, registers for defense employment. Amache, Colorado, 1943
  
 With makeshift equipment and arrangements, the cooperative beauty salon 
does a rushing business. Amache, Colorado, 1942
  
 With the coming of cold Wyoming temperature, Ice rinks were flooded 
and many former Californians of Japanese ancestry, now residing 
at Heart Mountain, had their first experiences on ice skates. 1943
  
Sunday afternoon and the three girls who occupy this barracks room relax. 
The furniture, the book niches, flower pot and print mats are all made by the girls 
from scrap lumber and scrap pieces of wall board, Amache, Colorado, 1942