Barracks To House Evacuated Japanese

Barracks To House Evacuated Japanese

California
Japanese Internment
Photograph

The photograph depicts builders working on a Barracks block in preparation to build the huge center at Manzanar. The photograph has an attaching caption noting that the barrack block in the photograph as being only one of what would be 350 barrack blocks which would then house 10,000 Japanese evacuated from cities in Southern California. Such barrack blocks were constructed in only a few days emphasizing the sudden nature of the mandatory order to evacuate all Japanese people.

Associated Press Photo (photographer name unknown), Manzanar, California

"Barracks To House Evacuated Japanese -- The first of 350 such barracks to house 10,000 Japanese evacuated from Southern California cities" part of the collection “Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive, 1941-1946” located at

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll75/id/1646/rec/25

19 March 1942

Michael Wilsher

Barracks To House Evacuated Japanese -- The first of 350 such barracks to house 10,000 Japanese evacuated from Southern California cities" part of the collection “Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive, 1941-1946” at the University of Southern California
Online link to photograph; http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll75/id/1646/rec/25

English

Visual - photograph

20th century California