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Vintage photos of:
Florence Kuwata practicing with the batons at Manzanar Relocation Center, 1943. View full size. Photograph by Ansel Adams.
A baseball game against the backdrop of the Sierra Nevada at the Manzanar Relocation Center, 1943. View full size. Photograph by Ansel Adams.
Corporal Jimmie Shohara, visiting his parents at the Manzanar Relocation Center in 1943. View full size. Photograph by Ansel Adams.
Departure and farewells at the Manzanar Relocation Center, 1943. View full size. Photograph by Ansel Adams.
Kiyo Yoshida, Lillian Watkatsuki and Yoshiko Yamasaki in their high school biology class at Manzanar, 1943. View full size. Photograph by Ansel Adams.
Naval cadet nurse Kay Fukuda at the Manzanar Relocation Center, 1943. View full size. Photograph by Ansel Adams.
1943. Entrance to the Manzanar Relocation Center, 230 miles north of Los Angeles. View full size. Photograph by Ansel Adams.
Detail of a bulletin board at the Manzanar Relocation Center, 1943. View full size. Photograph by Ansel Adams.