Clem Albers photographed Manzanar for the War Relocation Authority. He also made photographs of the WRA camps at Poston in Arizona, Tule Lake in northern California, and of the evacuation and assembly process. Before and after the war he worked for the San Francisco Chronicle and became their Chief Photographer.

The captions with Albers' photos in our gallery are in his own words. Today we use the term "internee" to talk about the Japanese Americans who lived in the camps. Albers' usage of "evacuee" to describe his photographic subjects reflects the common terminology of 1942.