Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Photo Log



This is a tower view of  Manzanar, these towers allowed the guards to have twenty-four hour surveillance of the camps. Having this kind of security might have benefited both the internees and guards but more so the guards
Photographer:Ansel Adams



This is a Catholic Church at Manzanar, religion didn't fall once the Japanese Americans relocated which isn't a bad thing at all the only issue is that all Japanese didn't practice the same religion.
Photographer: Dorothea Lange

In this photo several third grade children are fixing a broken bench, this is suppose to apart of the arithmetic lesson plan, but I'm almost certain that it's another way the guards and other staff if manipulating the internees.
Photographer:  Dorothea Lange

Here a few young adults are taking an adult education class, it seems that school and education still played a major roll, even in the internment camps.
Photographer: Dorothea Lange

A woman is holding a baby inside a poorly heated barrack, so she has to stand near a stove to keep warm.The living conditions were fairly poor some barracks had one wood burning stove, some had none.
Photographer: Dorothea Lange











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