Charles Mace - Japanese Internment

 A scene in the induction center at Tule Lake. Many children were left guarding the family's sole possessions while their parents went through the routine of being photographed, finger printed and assigned to new quarters. 1943

 A train mother on trip 24, Tule Lake to Heart Mountain, is here shown assisting with the special diet of one of the children requiring pullman accommodations and special feedings. 1943

 Evacuees celebrate New Year's Eve. Topaz, Utah, 1944

 Girl reporters on the staff of the Topaz Times, publication of the Central Utah Relocation Center, interview new arrivals from Tule Lake through the car windows. Topaz, Utah, 1943

 Girls from the Y.W.C.A. Summer Camp at Pueblo, Colorado, many of them evacuees of Japanese ancestry from the Relocation Center at Granada, help the local farmers in their annual battle with the weeds. 1943

 Meals served passengers travelling to and from Tule Lake were excellent. Between meals, ice cream and lemonade were frequently distributed through the coaches. 1943

 Miss Helen Nakauchi, who determined not to miss seeing Glacier National Park when the train skirted that point, obtained permission from the train commander to clean a peep hole. 1943

 Nisei Sergeant, who had seen overseas duty in the China-Burma-India theatre with the United States Army, visits with a girlfriend aboard the SS Shawnee in Los Angeles Harbor. 1945

 Passengers on trip 15 to Tule Lake play a game of Shogi in the car smoker. 

Shogi is a Japanese game similar to chess. 1943

Some of the transferees arrived at the Tule Lake station after the rather tiresome trip from the Central Utah Center, showing little signs of fatigue as they left the coach for their new quarters. 1943

Detroit Publishing

 Cathedral woods, North Conway, White Mountains, 1900

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

 Diamond Jubilee banquet, 1911

[in honor of the Emancipation Proclamation, I believe]

 Dinner hour on the docks, Jacksonville, Florida, 1910-1920

 Dock Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1908

 Emancipation Day, Richmond, Virginia, 1905

 Erecting Lethbridge viaduct, Lethbridge, Alberta, 1907-1909

 Feeding the pigeons, Boston Common, 1910-1920

 Flower vendor's Easter display in Union Square Park, New York, 1900-1910

 Girls of the paper mills, Appleton, Wisconsin, 1880-1899

Gordon Park, bathing pavilion, Cleveland, Ohio, 1900-1910

Random Vintage

 Eleanor Roosevelt visiting with Children of the American Revolution at the White House, 1935

 Forgotten Women, unemployed and single, demanding jobs, 1933

 Girl Scouts cooking for First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Washington, DC, April 30, 1940

 Jackie Robinson

 Jitterbugging

 Marjory Collins: Lancaster, Pennsylvania. 

Newsman at Center Square on a rainy market day, 1942

 Paul Carter: Negroes on a picnic, Newport News, Virginia, 1936

 Smiling young woman

 Integrated group making music

Women eating ice cream

Arthur Rothstein

 Negro boy selling pecans by road, near Alma, Georgia, 1937

 Nursery school, FSA camp, Harlingen, Texas. Member of mother's committee watches, 1942

 Oregon or bust. Leaving South Dakota for a new start in the Pacific Northwest, 1936

 Rehabilitation client. Smithfield, North Carolina, 1936

 Sharecropper's children, 1935

Shucking oysters, Bivalve, New Jersey, 1938

 Sign in restaurant, Shellpile, New Jersey, 1938

 Sign posted in Negro section of Belle Glade, Florida, 1937

Snow carnival, Lancaster, New Hampshire, 1936

Snow carnival, Lancaster, New Hampshire, 1936

Born in Slavery

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves.

 Abe Whitess, age over 90, 1936-38

 Anderson and Minerva Edwards, age 93 and 87, Marshall, Texas, 1936-38

 Charles H. Anderson, age 92, 1936-38

[Note that Mr. Anderson sports a hat with the logo "G.A.R.", standing for Grand Army of the Republic, meaning that in addition to being a former slave, he is a Union Army veteran.]

 Elijah Cox, 1930-40

 Ellen Butler, ex-slave, Beaumont, Texas, 1937

 Georgia Flournoy, Alabama, 1930-40

 Henry Cheatam, age 86, 1937

 Mary Armstrong, ex-slave, Houston, 1937

 Molly Ammonds, 1936-38

 Nathan Beauchamp, age about 92, 1936-38

 William Adams, ex-slave, Ft. Worth, 1937