Clem Albers - Japanese Internment

 Clipping stories on their migration at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Manzanar, California, 1942

 Evacuee mother and child ready to board a train which will take them to an assembly center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry will await transfer to War Relocation Authority centers to spend the duration. 1942

 Evacuee mothers, with their babies, getting acquainted at the Santa Anita Assembly center where evacuees from this area are awaiting transfer to a War Relocation Authority center to spend the duration. 1942

 Evacuees of Japanese ancestry move into this War Relocation Authority center. 

Manzanar, California, 1942

 Evacuees of Japanese ancestry waiting for the bus which will take them 

to the Salinas Assembly Center. They will later be transferred to a 

War Relocation Authority center to spend the duration. 1942

 In the doorway of her barrack apartment at this War Relocation Authority center 

for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Manzanar, California, 1942

 Mealtime during early days after evacuation at Manzanar, now a War Relocation Authority 

center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. In housing, as well as at meal times, 

family life is observed. 1942

 Mother and child evacuees of Japanese descent on train en route to 

War Relocation Authority center at Manzanar, California. 1942

 Persons of Japanese ancestry arrive at the Santa Anita Assembly Center from San Pedro, California. Evacuees lived at this center at the Santa Anita race track before being moved inland to relocation centers. 1942

 Relocated Nisei girls getting a bucket of water from one of the hydrants at this relocation center. Manzanar, California, 1942

 Residents of Japanese ancestry being moved from Los Angeles harbor before eventual resettlement in War Relocation Authority centers where, as in evacuation, the family unit is kept intact. 1942

 Seated in family groups, evacuees of Japanese ancestry check in at the Armory before moving to an assembly center. They will be transferred later to a War Relocation Authority center. 1942

 Special food formulae are prepared for babies at Manzanar reception center 

for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. 1942

 This little evacuee is being vaccinated by an evacuee nurse, and doctor, as are other evacuees upon arrival at War Relocation Authority centers. Manzanar, California, 1942

 Unpacking in their quarters. Rear, Eva (left) and Emiko Yamashita. Front, Michi Yamashita (left), and Taka Sakai. Family groups are kept intact. Manzanar, California, 1942

 Washday for this family of Japanese ancestry at the Santa Anita Assembly Center. 1942

 Waving to departing friends who are leaving for assembly centers. All residents of Japanese ancestry from designated military areas will eventually be housed in War Relocation Authority Centers to spend the duration. 1942

 Young evacuees of Japanese ancestry arrive here by train prior to being transferred by bus to Manzanar, now a War Relocation Authority center. 1942

 A ping pong game on a home-made table occupies the attention of these young evacuees of Japanese descent at Santa Anita Assembly center. 1942

Frieda Lakahama of Long Beach, California, joins in window washing at Santa Anita Park assembly center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. 1942

Cabinet Cards

Here are more cabinet card portraits. These are all of women in the entertainment business.

 Ada Rehan, American actress

 Annie Robe, stage actress known for her beauty, New York

 Ballerina, probably Emma Bassone, as Cupid at the Alhambra Theatre, London (ca. 1886)

 Cissy Fitz Gerald, actress, singer and dancer, New York, 1894

 Elise De Vere, actress and singer, Paris, France, 1899

 Emma Loraine, stage actress, New York

 Estelle Clayton, actress, New York

 Ethel Barrymore, prominent stage actress, New York

[Certainly the most prominent person in this group. 

She was the great-aunt of Drew Barrymore.]

 Fanny Davenport, stage actress, San Francisco, 1880

 Jennie Winston, comic opera actress, Philadelphia

 Julia Marlowe, stage actress, New York

 Kate Claxton, stage actress, New York

[what a wonderfully melodramatic scene!]

Lizzie Burton, comic opera actress, New York

Born in Slavery

More pictures of former slaves, taken in the 1930s.

 Austin Grant, age about 90, 1937

 Betty Farrow, ex-slave, age 90, Ft. Worth, Texas, 1937

 Clara Brim, age over 100, Beaumont, Texas, 1937

 Edgar and Minerva Bendy, ages 90 and 83, 1936-38

 Gus Askew, age 84, 1936-38

 Gus Brown, 1936-38

 Lucy Chambers, ex-slave, Karnack, Texas, 1937

 Priscilla Gibson, ex-slave, age about 81, Jasper, Texas, 1937

Sarah and Sam Douglas, ages 82 and 89, 1936-38

Russell Lee

El Centro (vicinity), California. Young people at the Imperial County Fair, 1942

 El Centro (vicinity), California. Young people at the Imperial County Fair, 1942

 Ellen McAllister, ninety-one years old, the oldest resident of Shawneetown, Illinois, 

is a flood refugee at Tent City camp, 1937

 Family at FSA camp, Caldwell, Idaho, 1941

 Farm family window shopping, Williston, North Dakota, 1937

 Farmers and spectators at auction, Sikeston, Missouri, 1938

 Getting ready for the pie eating contest, 4-H Club fair, Cimarron, Texas, 1939

 Girl at Bean Day rodeo, Wagon Mound, New Mexico, 1939

 Girls at National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana, 1938

Girls who play in the band watch cornhusking contest, Ontario, Oregon, 1941