PARTNER

OBJECT ID

ddr-csujad-52-1 (CSUJAD Local ID: hslb_npc_0006, CSUJAD Project ID: hslb_npc_0006)

PARENT COLLECTION

Historical Society of Long Beach Newspaper Photograph Collection

DESCRIPTION

An abandoned guard station at the entrance to Manzanar. Notation on the back of the photo states "Manzanar - Concentration Camp - California, Where American Japanese were kept WWII." The caption printed in the Press-Telegram, in September of 1985, reads "Infamous Manzanar was the first and best-known of the U.S. internment camps where more than 100,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, the majority of American citizens, were confined during World War II under Executive Order 9066." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: hslb_npc_0006

CONTRIBUTOR

Historical Society of Long Beach, Long Beach, California

PREFERRED CITATION

Courtesy of Historical Society of Long Beach, Long Beach, California

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