Title

Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Caption

Japanese relocation, California. A view of the quarters at Manzanar, California, a War Relocation Authority Center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry will spend the duration. Mount Whitney, highest peak in the United States, is in the background.

Date

1942

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A47_382

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

34,3Mb (978,1Kb) / 12,9in x 10,4in / 3864 x 3107 (300dpi)

Keywords

California building buildings wood library timber house houses mountain mountains mountain range country security housing nationality enemy geography Japan Japanese photography accommodation wooden war location century Sierra Nevada camp citizen Americans concept negative adversary citizens film negative B&W 1940s Mount Whitney citizenship evacuation Library of Congress Forties United States of America World War II World War two WWII black & white black and white B W world war 2 Japanese American Japanese-Americans 20th century federal agency internment Japanese-American American America USA decade geographical feature prison camp Second World War TGN WW2 photograph united states 2nd World War internment camp foe Congressional Library evacuated enemy alien enemy aliens Heritage Art Dorothea Lange Lange Dorothea Taylor Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange Taylor Russell Lee Lee Russell Farm Security Administration FSA homeland security Japanese Americans OEM Office for Emergency Management Office of War Information OWI United States Office of War Information War Relocation Authority WRA Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Nutzhorn Dorothea Margaretta Tumanguya