Manzanar, Calif. Apr. 1942. Japanese men eating in a dining room at the War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry (LOC)

Albers, Clem,, photographer.

 

Manzanar, Calif. Apr. 1942. Japanese men eating in a dining room at the War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry

 

[2 April 1942]

 

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; mount 24 x 30 cm.

 

Notes:

Photograph shows unidentified Japanese American men eating at long tables at the concentration camp where they were incarcerated during World War II; a sign on a post reads "Hats off before eating."

Title transcribed from item.

No. B-115.

Photographer and date from negative in the National Archives.

Photograph from U.S. War Relocation Authority.

Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information Collection (Library of Congress).

 

Subjects:

United States.--Wartime Civil Control Administration--1940-1950.

Manzanar War Relocation Center--1940-1950.

Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945

World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans--California--Manzanar.

Japanese Americans--Men--1940-1950.

Political prisoners--1940-1950.

Concentration camps--1940-1950.

Mess halls--1940-1950.

Eating & drinking--1940-1950.

 

Format: Photographic prints--1940-1950.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2002708960

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.73487

 

Call Number: LOT 1801 [item]

 

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