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Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. One of the 80 baseball teams which have been formed in the three months that this War Relocation Authority center has been opened for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Most of the playing is done in the wide firebreak between blocks of barracks.

Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. One of the 80 baseball teams which have been formed in the three months that this War Relocation Authority center has been opened for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Most of the playing is done in the wide firebreak between blocks of barracks.

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Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. One of the 80 baseball teams which have been formed in the three months that this War Relocation Authority center has been opened for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Most of the playing is done in the wide firebreak between blocks of barracks.
ArtistAmerican, 1895–1965
Printer
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. One of the 80 baseball teams which have been formed in the three months that this War Relocation Authority center has been opened for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Most of the playing is done in the wide firebreak between blocks of barracks.
DateJuly 3, 1942, printed July 2025
Place depictedManzanar, California, United States
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 9 × 11 5/16 in. (22.8 × 28.8 cm)
 Sheet: 10 15/16 × 14 in. (27.8 × 35.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Sharon and Del Zogg
Object number2025.727
Not on view

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Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceThe artist, Berkley, California, 1942 [1]; MFAH, 2025 [2].

[1] At the time of this photograph, Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) worked for War Relocation Authority to document the forced evacuation of Japanese Americans. The photos she took were impounded by the U.S. government and not released to the public until 2006. This photograph was taken on May 9, 1942.
[2] Due to the sensitive nature of the images, prints from this time are exceedingly rare, although the original negative has been preserved at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), College Park, Maryland, since 1942. The negatives are now considered public domain. This print is from No. 538060 in NARA records.

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Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Farm crew of which Johnny Fukazawa is foreman. These men are ready to return to the Center's messhall for lunch after a busy morning in the fields of the farm project at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
Dorothea Lange
Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Farm crew of which Johnny Fukazawa is foreman. These men are ready to return to the Center's messhall for lunch after a busy morning in the fields of the farm project at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
June 30, 1942, printed July 2025
Inkjet print
2025.724
Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuee orphans from an institution in San Francisco who are now established for the duration in the Childrens' Village at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Mrs. Harry Matsumoto, a University of California graduate, and her husband are superintendants of the Childrens' Village where 65 evacuee orphans from 3 institutions are now housed.
Dorothea Lange
Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuee orphans from an institution in San Francisco who are now established for the duration in the Childrens' Village at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Mrs. Harry Matsumoto, a University of California graduate, and her husband are superintendants of the Childrens' Village where 65 evacuee orphans from 3 institutions are now housed.
July 1, 1942, printed July 2025
Inkjet print
2025.726
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Dorothea Lange
Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. More land is being cleared of sage brush at the southern end of the project to enlarge this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
June 30, 1942, printed July 2025
Inkjet print
2025.723
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Dorothea Lange
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July 1, 1942, printed July 2025
Inkjet print
2025.725
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Dorothea Lange
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June 16, 1942, printed July 2025
Inkjet print
2025.722
Turlock, California. Families of Japanese ancestry arrived at Turlock Assembly. Evacuees will be housed later at War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.
Dorothea Lange
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May 2, 1942, printed July 2025
Inkjet print
2025.720
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Dorothea Lange
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May 9, 1942, printed July 2025
Inkjet print
2025.721
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Dorothea Lange
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April 29, 1942, printed July 2025
Inkjet print
2025.719
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Al Chang
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Inkjet print
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Universal View Co.
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Gelatin silver stereograph
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Dorothea Lange