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OBJECT ID

ddr-densho-151-437 (Legacy UID: denshopd-i151-00437)

PARENT COLLECTION

Dorothea Lange Collection

DESCRIPTION

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. A barrack building has been turned into a library at this War Relocaton Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. These and other books have been donated by friends, Shelving will be soon made, and the library set up with the use of modern techniques by a trained evacuee librarian in charge.

DATE

1-Jul-42

LOCATION

Manzanar concentration camp, California

OBJECT GENRE

Photographs

OBJECT FORMAT

Still Image

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CONTRIBUTOR

Densho

PREFERRED CITATION

Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration

RIGHTS

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This work is free of known copyright restrictions.

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ddr-densho-151-437-mezzanine-9ed5a533ab - Front
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-437-mezzanine-9ed5a533ab/
ddr-densho-151-437-master-9ed5a533ab - Front
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-437-master-9ed5a533ab/
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