April 1, 1942 · Gelatin silver photograph
Evacuees of Japanese Ancestry Awaiting Buses for Manzanar at Lone Pine
Clem Albers, photographer; U.S. War Relocation Authority
Why it matters
The photograph makes visible the distance between an actual military enemy and people forcibly removed and incarcerated because government policy treated Japanese ancestry as a security category.
- Publication
- War Relocation Authority photograph, no. A-298
- Holding institution
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
- Shelfmark
- LC-DIG-ppmsca-73157; LOT 1801 [item] [P&P]; no. A-298
Citation
Clem Albers. Lone Pine, Calif. Apr. 1942. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry arriving by train and awaiting buses for Manzanar, a War Relocation Authority center. April 1, 1942. Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-73157, LOT 1801.
