Links: Densho Digital Repository. the story of the Japanese American incarceration experience WWII. D. Lange, Ansel Adams etc.
Hear the story of the Japanese American
incarceration experience from those who lived it, and find thousands of
historic photographs, documents, newspapers, letters and other primary
source materials from immigration to the WWII incarceration and its
aftermath.
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Collections
Dorothea Lange Collection
DESCRIPTION
The Dorothea Lange Collection, March-July 1942,
features photographs taken by Dorothea Lange, who was hired by the
government to visually record the World War II incarceration of Japanese
Americans. The photographs document the many different stages of mass
removal and incarceration in California and contain original captions
written by Dorothea Lange.
478 Objects
Ansel Adams Collection
DESCRIPTION
This collection is comprised of photographs from the
Library of Congress's repository of photographs from the collection of
photographer Ansel Adams. The photographs document life in the Manzanar
concentration camp during 1943.