Happy Baby - Dorothea Lange
This smiling, happy Japanese baby seems to be living in oblivion. This picture is nothing more than a reminder that life at the Japanese Internment camps was not bad for EVERYONE.
Mary Tsukamoto
As you can see, not every Japanese American were behind cages as if they were animals. People would come to visit their families without being able to even hug them.
Football - Ansel Adams
A group of Japanese-American boys enjoying football...American football to be exact!
Guard Tower - Ansel Adams
These are the confinements of Japanese Americans during WWII. They were surrounded by barbed wire fences, They may have had freedom to roam the premises, but they were never truly free.
Manzanar In the Late Afternoon
This is one of the Japanese Internment Camps. A quote from one resident says "It seems so comical, looking back; we were a band of Charlie Chaplins marooned in the California desert. But at the time, it was pure chaos. That's the only way to describe it. The evacuation had been so hurriedly planned, the camps so hastily thrown together, nothing was completed when we got there, and almost nothing worked.
The kitchens were too small and badly ventilated. Food would spoil from being left out too long. That summer [1941], when the heat got fierce, it would spoil faster. The refrigeration kept breaking down. The cooks, in many cases, had never cooked before
The first chef in our block had been a gardener all his life and suddenly found himself preparing three meals a day for 250 people."
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