Dorothea Lange Collection ddr-densho-151

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Young Japanese Americans playing (ddr-densho-151-377)
img Young Japanese Americans playing (ddr-densho-151-377)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Young evacuees of Japanese ancestry at this War Relocation Authority center.
Portrait of a young Japanese American (ddr-densho-151-378)
img Portrait of a young Japanese American (ddr-densho-151-378)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. A young evacuee of Japanese ancestry at this War Relocation Authority center.
Japanese American working in lath house (ddr-densho-151-379)
img Japanese American working in lath house (ddr-densho-151-379)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Guayule beds in the lath house at the Manzanar Relocation Center.
Japanese Americans working with guayule plants (ddr-densho-151-380)
img Japanese Americans working with guayule plants (ddr-densho-151-380)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Guayule beds in the lath house at the Manzanar Relocation Center.
Japanese Americans inspecting guayule plants (ddr-densho-151-381)
img Japanese Americans inspecting guayule plants (ddr-densho-151-381)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Guayule plantings are being inspected by Doctor Robert Emerson, (third from right) a bio-chemist and botanist from the California Institute of Technology and director of the guayule rubber experiment. He is here shown conferring with several of his staff of young evacuee scientists at Plot 4. There are 408 …
Guayule plants (ddr-densho-151-382)
img Guayule plants (ddr-densho-151-382)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Guayule beds in the lath house at this War Relocation Authority center. These plants are year-old seedlings from the Salinas experiment station which are ready to be transplanted into the open ground.
Guayule plants (ddr-densho-151-383)
img Guayule plants (ddr-densho-151-383)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. View of one of the lath house where seedlings are grown under controlled conditions, for the guyaule rubber experiment project.
Lath house (ddr-densho-151-384)
img Lath house (ddr-densho-151-384)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Exterior view of the lath house of guyaule rubber experiment project in which seedlings are grown under controlled conditions with a staff of 22 workers, under the direction of Walter T. Watanabe. The initial shipment of 100,000 seedlings came from the Salinas Experiment Station. Note decorative desert garden.
Japanese American examining guayule plants (ddr-densho-151-385)
img Japanese American examining guayule plants (ddr-densho-151-385)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. George J. Yokomizo, hybridizer for the guayule rubber experiment project.
Japanese Americans working in lath house (ddr-densho-151-386)
img Japanese Americans working in lath house (ddr-densho-151-386)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. A view of section of the lath house at this War Relocation Authority center where seedling guayule plants are propagated by experienced nurserymen evacuees in the guayule rubber experiment work.
Japanese Americans experimenting with guayule (ddr-densho-151-387)
img Japanese Americans experimenting with guayule (ddr-densho-151-387)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Chemists, nurserymen, and plant propagators at this War Relocation Authority center assemble to witness a new experiment in an attempt to resolve the amount of rubber produced in a small quantity of the guayule plant. Frank Hirosawa, research rubber chemist, is seated in the foreground.
Japanese Americans clearing brush (ddr-densho-151-388)
img Japanese Americans clearing brush (ddr-densho-151-388)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. More land is being cleared of sage brush at the southern end of the project to enlarge this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
Farm crew (ddr-densho-151-389)
img Farm crew (ddr-densho-151-389)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Farm crew of which Johnny Fukazawa is foreman. These men are ready to return to the center's mess hall for lunch after a busy morning in the fields of the farm project at this War Relocation Authority center.
Field crew foreman (ddr-densho-151-390)
img Field crew foreman (ddr-densho-151-390)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Johnny Fukazawa, foreman of fields Numbers 3, 4, 5, and 6, heading a 20-man field crew on the farm project, says there are many problems they have to solve in their agricultural work at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
Japanese Americans working in field (ddr-densho-151-391)
img Japanese Americans working in field (ddr-densho-151-391)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Field laborers hoeing corn on the farm project at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
Japanese Americans watching baseball game (ddr-densho-151-392)
img Japanese Americans watching baseball game (ddr-densho-151-392)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuees watching a baseball game at this War Relocation Authority center. This is a very popular recreation with 80 teams having been formed throughout the Center. Most of the playing is done between the barrack blocks.
Japanese Americans playing baseball (ddr-densho-151-393)
img Japanese Americans playing baseball (ddr-densho-151-393)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Baseball is the most popular recreation at this War Relocation Authority center with 80 teams having been formed throughout the Center. Most of the playing is done between the barrack blocks.
Japanese Americans playing baseball (ddr-densho-151-394)
img Japanese Americans playing baseball (ddr-densho-151-394)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Baseball players in a huddle. This game is very popular with 80 teams having been formed to date. Most of the playing is done in the wide firebreak between blocks of barracks.
Japanese Americans watching baseball (ddr-densho-151-395)
img Japanese Americans watching baseball (ddr-densho-151-395)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry are enjoying a baseball game at this War Relocation Authority center. 80 teams having been organized to date with most of the playing is done between the barrack blocks.
Japanese Americans relaxing in shade (ddr-densho-151-396)
img Japanese Americans relaxing in shade (ddr-densho-151-396)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry rest in the cool of the eveing beside their barrack apartments at this War Relocation Authority Center.
Japanese American outside barracks (ddr-densho-151-397)
img Japanese American outside barracks (ddr-densho-151-397)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuee of Japanese ancestry at this War Relocation Authority center.
Japanese Americans playing go (ddr-densho-151-398)
img Japanese Americans playing go (ddr-densho-151-398)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Playing the Japanese game Goh in the Relocation Hall at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
Japanese Americans resting near creek (ddr-densho-151-399)
img Japanese Americans resting near creek (ddr-densho-151-399)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Family groups enjoying the mountain creek which flows along the outer border of this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
Young Japanese Americans playing in creek (ddr-densho-151-400)
img Young Japanese Americans playing in creek (ddr-densho-151-400)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuee children enjoying a hot summer afternoon in the mountain creek which flows through the desert on the border of this War Relocation Authority center.
Japanese Americans playing in creek (ddr-densho-151-401)
img Japanese Americans playing in creek (ddr-densho-151-401)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuee children enjoying a hot summer afternoon in the mountain creek which flows through the desert on the border of this War Relocation Authority center.

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