Title

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

Caption

Japanese relocation, California. Maye Noma, behind the plate, and Tomi Nagao, at bat, in a practice game between members of the Chick-a-dee softball team, which was kept intact when the players were evacuated from Los Angeles to Manzanar, California, a War Relocation Authority Center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

Date

1942

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A47_383

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

172,0Mb (7,2Mb) / 28,8in x 23,2in / 8649 x 6949 (300dpi)

Keywords

California female women woman people library sport team country playing ball security nationality enemy Japan Japanese photography war location century citizen batting bat Americans softball concept negative pitcher adversary citizens film negative B&W 1940s citizenship evacuation Library of Congress catcher's mitt Forties United States of America sportswoman World War II World War two mitt 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 internee prison camp Second World War TGN WW2 photograph united states 2nd World War internment camp foe Congressional Library evacuated R&R rest and recreation rest and recuperation rest and relaxation enemy alien enemy aliens internees 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