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	Manzanar National Historic Site Dorothea Lange Gallery Gallery

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This War Relocation Authority center which houses 10,000 evacuees of Japanese ancestry is located in Owens Valley between the High Sierras and Mt. Whitney, the highest peak in the United States. The space in the foreground is a wide fire-break between blocks of barracks which also serves as a playfield.

Row of Barracks

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A typical interior scene in one of the barrack apartments at this center. Note the cloth partition which lends a small amount of privacy.

Inside a Barrack

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Evacuees of Japanese ancestry lining up outside the messhall at noon at this War Relocation Authority center.

Lined up for a meal

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Grandfather and grandson of Japanese ancestry at this War Relocation Authority center.

Grandfather and grandson

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Karl Yoneda, Block Leader at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. He is married to a Caucasian and they have a child four years old. The family are spending the duration at this center.

Karl Yoneda

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Little evacuee of Japanese ancestry in a happy mood at this War Relocation Authority center

Happy baby

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Young evacuees of Japanese ancestry at this War Relocation Authority center.

Two boys laughing

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Young evacuee girls gather in the shade of their barrack apartment and practice the songs they learned in school prior to evacuation to this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

Girls practicing songs

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A young evacuee of Japanese ancestry at this War Relocation Authority center.

Young Girl

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Evacuee boy waiting at the entrance of the Recreational Hall at this War Relocation Authority center. He is anxious for the baseball team to assemble.

Boy with baseball bat

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Pre-school children on the way to their barrack homes from morning class at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

Pre-School children

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Third grade students working on their arithmetic lesson at this first volunteer elementary schol. School equipment was not yet available at the time this photograph was taken.

Third grade arithmetic

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Part of a class under the Adult Education Program at this War Relocation Authority center. It is composed of Issei and Kibei evacuees who are studying the Ideals of American Citizenship and the English language with which they are unfamiliar . There are 18 such classes, each averaging 20 volunteer members and conducted by volunteer instructors.

Adult Education class

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Evacuee orphans from an institution in San Francisco who are now established for the duration in the Childrens' Village at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Mrs. Harry Matsumoto, a University of California graduate, and her husband are superintendents of the Childrens' Village where 65 evacuee orphans from 3 institutions are now housed.

Children's Village

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Guayule beds in the lath house at the Manzanar Relocation Center.

Guayule Beds

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Making camouflage nets for the War Department. This is one of several War and Navy Department projects carried on by persons of Japanese ancestry in relocation centers

Camouflage Net Factory

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Walter T. Watanabe (left) foreman-in-charge of the guyaule rubber experiment. He operated a large nursery business in Redondo Beach. George J. Yokomizo, hybridizer of the guyaule rubber experiment project. He operated a self-owned nursery business and together they hope to develop the guyaule strain which will be accommodated to desert conditions.

Guayule growers

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Evacuee boy at this War Relocation Authority center reading the Funnies.

Reading the Funnies

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Making artificial flowers in the Art School at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

Paper flowermaking

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Evacuees enjoying the creek which flows along the outer border of this War Relocation Authority center.

Wading in the Creek

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The first grave at the Manzanar Center's cemetery. It is that of Matsunosuke Murakami, 62, who died of heart disease on May 16. He had been ill ever since he arrived here with the first contingent and had been confined to the hospital since March 23.

First Manzanar Grave

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			Did You Know? Manazanar housed the only camp orphanage. Children from three orphanages, foster homes, and those whose parents were taken to prison camps lived together in the Childrens Village. more...

Last Updated: August 04, 2010 at 06:16 MST