Japanese Internment - Francis Stewart

I just recently discovered a comprehensive archive of photos taken in the internment camps for Japanese-Americans during World War II. (It's here.) I've been culling the best from this collection and cleaning them up. The photos are fairly low resolution compared to others I have been posting here, but they are good enough.

I have to say, I find these photos immensely poignant. To be sure, there is a propaganda factor at play here, depicting the camps in the best light possible, and I'm sure that behind these smiling faces there were some dark undercurrents. Nonetheless, I am truly impressed with how these people coped with their situation and made the best of it.

 A group of children evacuees enjoying a game of Black Jack 

at the War Relocation Authority center, Poston, Arizona, 1942

 A group picture of the sewing school, Poston, Arizona, 1943

 A small evacuee of Japanese ancestry amuses himself while his parents are entertained by an outdoor musical show at this War Relocation Authority center, Poston, Arizona, 1942

 A view at a dance given to celebrate the Harvest Festival at Camp 2, Thanksgiving day, Rivers, Arizona, 1942

 A view at a dance given to celebrate the Harvest Festival at Camp 2, Thanksgiving day, Rivers, Arizona, 1942

 A view of cauliflower, which is being grown for its seed, Rivers, Arizona, 1943

 A view of the Reports Office, at this War Relocation Authority Center. Russell Bankson, Reports Officer, is shown on the far right. Topaz, Utah, 1943

 A young evacuee of Japanese ancestry entertains her fellow evacuees with a demonstration of her tap dancing ability. This was one number in an outdoor musical show, Poston, Arizona, 1942

 Barn dance given in Block 12. No music was available so evacuees of Japanese descent sang "Pop Goes the Weasel" and clapped hands while dancing the Virginia Reel. Poston, Arizona, 1942

 Beauty shop. Maye Morikawa, Poston, Arizona, 1943

 Butte Nursery and Kindergarten children's snack hour. Rivers, Arizona, 1944

 Cheiko Neeno, Nurse's Aid student at the Poston Hospital, 

attending a baby patient in the children's ward, 1943

 Dry goods canteen, camp 1, Poston, Arizona, 1943

Editors on the Topaz Times, who have volunteered for combat duty in the army. 

All male members of the staff have volunteered. Topaz, Utah, 1943

Harris & Ewing - Suffragettes

More photographic documentation of the women's suffrage movement.

 Suffragettes with banner, 1918

 Woman suffrage parade, 1914

 Woman suffrage pickets, 1917

 Woman suffrage, open-air meeting, 1913

 Woman suffrage. At Capitol, 1917

 Woman suffrage. Groups before Capitol, 1913

 Woman suffrage. Mrs. Swing, picketing White House, 1917

 Woman suffrage. Posters for parade, 1914

Woman suffragettes, 1913

Detroit Publishing

 A chestnut vendor, Baltimore, Maryland, 1900-1906

 A woman of the Isleta Pueblo, 1910

 Along the beach, Presque Isle, 1880-1899

 At the free public baths, Harriet Island, St. Paul, Minnesota, ca. 1905

 At work in a maple sugar camp, 1906

 Book bindery, Richmond & Backus Co., Detroit, Michigan, 1902

 Breaker boys, Woodward coal breakers, Kingston, Pennsylvania, 1900-1906

 Breaker boys, Woodward Coal Mines, Kingston, Pennsylvania, 1900

Casino and boardwalk, Asbury Park, New Jersey, 1890-1910
 

Chester Park, toboggan slide on the lake, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1900-1910

Arthur Rothstein

 Ambridge, Pennsylvania. Scene in the alley on the east side of town, 1938

 An employee of the grapefruit canning plant at Winter Haven, Florida, 1937

 Child labor in the onion field, Delta County, Colorado, 1939

 Child labor, cranberry bog, Burlington County, New Jersey, 1938

 Child of migratory fruit worker. Yakima, Washington, 1936

 Children at city dump, Ambridge, Pennsylvania, 1938

 Children going home from school, Chillicothe, Ohio, 1940

 Children of resettled farmer who has been moved into a new house, 

Wolf Creek Farms, Grady County, Georgia, 1935

 Coming out of the mine, Birmingham, Alabama, 1937

Cranberry pickers on way to checking station, 

Burlington County, New Jersey, 1938

Jack Delano

 Singing class in a Negro School, Siloam, Greene County, Georgia, 1941

 Snow in Providence, Rhode Island, 1940

 Spectators at the annual barrel rolling contest in Presque Isle, Maine, 1940

 Students coming out of the library at Iowa State College. Ames, Iowa, 1942

 Tenant family who lived in the Camp Croft area and had to move out, 

near Pacolet, South Carolina, 1941

 The community sing in the Negro church, Woodville, Greene County, Georgia, 1941

 Union Station, Chicago, 1943

Woman who has not yet found a place to move out of the Hinesville Army camp area working on a quilt in her smokehouse. Near Hinesville, Georgia, 1941