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Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/anseladams/

Description:
In 1943, Ansel Adams documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese Americans interned there. This site provides side-by-side digital scans of both Adams' 242 original negatives and his 209 photographic prints, collection highlights, Adams' book "Born Free and Equal," a selected bibliography, and a chronology of Adams' life. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.

Publisher:
Library of Congress

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Adams, Ansel, 1902-
Japanese Americans -- California -- Manzanar
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
LII classic content
Manzanar War Relocation Center
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- United States

LII Database Information:
Record 6107 created by Norm Hutcherson on 02/25/2002
Last modification on 02/17/2007
Published: 02/25/2002  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/6107