Unidentified Japanese American women and boys wait at Lone Pine with numbered tags, suitcases, bedding, and other people awaiting transport to Manzanar.

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
Rights
No known restrictions on publication

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.