Ansel Adams Collection

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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.

1943

1943

54 photographic prints, black and white

Library of Congress

Courtesy of the Library of Congress

Public Domain Mark
This work is free of known copyright restrictions.

54 Objects

Commercial artist (ddr-densho-93-1)
img Commercial artist (ddr-densho-93-1)
Original Ansel Adams caption: "Ahio Matsumoto, commercial artist." (Note: first name is misspelled; should be, "Akio")
Japanese Americans in front of camp newspaper office (ddr-densho-93-2)
img Japanese Americans in front of camp newspaper office (ddr-densho-93-2)
Original Ansel Adams caption: Roy Takeno (Editor) and group reading Manzanar paper in front of office, Yuichi Harata, Nabuo Samamura, Manzanar Relocation Center, California. (Note: original caption contains misspellings. "Harata" should be, "Hirata", and "Nabuo Samamura" should be, "Nobuo Sawamura".)
Nurse with patient and others outside barracks (ddr-densho-93-3)
img Nurse with patient and others outside barracks (ddr-densho-93-3)
Original Ansel Adams caption: Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi and patient Tom Kano. Others: George Nakano, Keiko Kamahara. (Note: original caption contains misspelling, "Kamahara" should be, "Kawahara".)
Japanese American woodworker (ddr-densho-93-4)
img Japanese American woodworker (ddr-densho-93-4)
Original Ansel Adams caption: Hidimi Tayenaka (woodworker), Manzanar Relocation Center, California. (Note: original caption contains misspelling. "Hidimi" should be, "Hidemi".)
Japanese American making clothing patterns (ddr-densho-93-5)
img Japanese American making clothing patterns (ddr-densho-93-5)
Original Ansel Adams caption: Bert K. Miura (pattern making).
Japanese Americans bundling clothing (ddr-densho-93-6)
img Japanese Americans bundling clothing (ddr-densho-93-6)
Original Ansel Adams caption: Bert K. Miura and Toshiko Kadonada, bundling and shipping, Manzanar Relocation Center, California.
Japanese Americans sewing (ddr-densho-93-7)
img Japanese Americans sewing (ddr-densho-93-7)
Original Ansel Adams caption: Sumiko Shigematsu, foreman of power sewing machine girls, Manzanar Relocation Center, California.
Electrical crew (ddr-densho-93-8)
img Electrical crew (ddr-densho-93-8)
Original Ansel Adams caption: Line crew at work in Manzanar.
View from guard tower (ddr-densho-93-9)
img View from guard tower (ddr-densho-93-9)
Original Ansel Adams caption: Manzanar from Guard Tower, view west, (Sierra Nevada in Background) Manzanar Relocation Center, California.
Japanese American at baton practice (ddr-densho-93-10)
img Japanese American at baton practice (ddr-densho-93-10)
Original Ansel Adams caption: Baton practice, Florence Kuwata, Manzanar Relocation Center / photograph by Ansel Adams.

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