Frances Stewart - Japanese Internment

 Free-hand drawing class. Hunt, Idaho, 1943

 Harvest Festival Queens at Camp 1, Thanksgiving day. l-r, Irene Takayama; Peggy Tagami; Chiyi Sekino, Queen; Claire Fujishige; Janet Miura. Rivers, Arizona, 1942

 Ice cream bar passes hands in the community store at Manzanar. 1942

 Kindergarten and nursery children having a grand time on the see-saw, Rivers, Arizona, 1943

 Kitchen crew preparing lunch. Menu is baked macaroni with Spanish sauce, spinach, pickled beets, bread-pudding, tea, bread and butter. Dave K. Yoshida, chef. Hunt, Idaho, 1943

 Kiyoko Tatsukawa, former high school student from Huntington Beach, California, and a graduate of the spring 1943 class in Nurse's Aid at the Poston Hospital

 Little girls playing house at this War Relocation Authority center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry are spending the duration, Poston, Arizona, 1942

 Lucy Yonemitshu, former student from Los Angeles, California, enjoys a few free moments from her household duties and listens to swing music from her familiar and favorite Los Angeles radio station. Manzanar, California, 1943

 Mary Nakagaki studying in the library, Rivers, Arizona, 1942

 Members of the Chick-a-dee soft ball team from Los Angeles choose sides for a practice game at Manzanar, where, since evacuation, the girls have kept their team intact. 1942

 Members of the fire department spend their leisure time by a friendly game of cards. 

Topaz, Utah, 1943

 Memorial Day services at Manzanar. American Legion members 

and Boy Scouts participated in the services. 1942

 Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, accompanied by Dillon Myer, National Director of the War Relocation Authority, visits the Gila Relocation Center, where they were greeted by crowds of enthusiastic evacuees, 1943

 Mrs. Yamatoto, former P.T.A. president from San Francisco, and now head of the Canal Women's Club, presents Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt with a bouquet of flowers, Rivers, Arizona, 1943

 New Year's Fair. Pretty Nami Nadaoka is shown with the program sign at the fair, 

which was held in Camp No. 2, Poston, Arizona, 1943

 Pupils of the high first grade are shown busily at work on their geography lessons. 

Topaz, Utah, 1943

Pvt. Joe Watanabe and his family, Rivers, Arizona, 1944

Ben Shahn - Arkansas

 A destitute family, Ozark Mountains area, 1935

 Community canning, Dyess Colony, Arkansas, 1935

 Blind street musician, West Memphis, Arkansas, 1935

 Cotton pickers at 6:30 a.m., Alexander plantation, Pulaski County, Arkansas, 1935

 Ozark children, Arkansas, 1935

 Inhabitants of Marked Tree, Arkansas, 1935

Cotton pickers ready for day's work, 6:30 a.m., Pulaski County, Arkansas, 1935

Russell Lee

 Indian mother and baby, near Little Fork, Minnesota, 1937

 Indian woman, wife of farmer, McIntosh County, Oklahoma, 1939

 Mrs. Huravitch and youngest son. Williams County, North Dakota, 1937

 Mrs. Olie Thompson ready to drive home from the spring with barrels full of water. 

Williams County, North Dakota, 1937

 Mrs. Sophie Rudd, a widow who lives by herself on forty acres of land 

near Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1937

 Mrs. Theodore Eickholt and her three children, 

Miller Township, Woodbury County, Iowa, 1936

 Native Spanish-American dance at fiesta, Taos, New Mexico, 1940

 Negro agricultural day laborer picking string beans in field near Muskogee, Oklahoma, 1939

 Negro FSA clients listening to farm supervisor at mass meeting 

near Marshall, Texas. Sabine Farms, Texas, 1939

Negro family with supplies in wagon ready to leave for the farm, 

Saturday afternoon, San Augustine, Texas, 1939

Ellis Island

Ellis Island was for decades America's main port of entry for immigrants. Most of these photos are not very good quality, but they offer a touching view into a few of the people seeking a better life in America.

 Ellis Island arrivals, 1904

 Ellis Island immigrants

 Immigrants at Ellis Island

 Immigrants being processed at Ellis Island

 Immigrant children, Ellis Island, New York, 1908

 Italian immigrant family at Ellis Island, 1910

 Slavs at Ellis Island

 Trachoma Inspections at Ellis Island

Their first photograph at Ellis Island

Edward S. Curtis

 Incense, Atsina

 Running Owl's daughter, young Piegan girl

 On the War Path, Atsina

 Sarsi woman cooking over campfire, Alberta, Canada

 Sundance lodge with Cheyenne people standing inside

 Two young Piegan women seated in tall grass

 The wife of Ow High

 Spotted Bull, Mandan

Three Horses