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Title
Photograph of people posing in front of a building at Manzanar
Date Created and/or Issued
1942-1945
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
Materials in the Eastern California Museum may be subject to copyrights. All requests for permission to publish must be submitted to the Eastern California Museum as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. For further information, please contact: ecmuseum@inyocounty.us
Description
Photograph of eleven people posing in front of a building at Manzanar incarceration camp. It is a group of ten women and one man.
The collection was donated by Ralph "Pete" Merritt, Jr. and Patricia Merritt. It is comprised of photographs from an album created by L. Josephine Hawes, the Chief Nurse at the Manzanar Hospital, and individual photographs collected by Ralph P. Merritt, the Project Director of the Manzanar War Relocation Center.
Type
image
Format
Photographs
black and white, 2.25 x 3.25 inches
image/jpeg
Identifier
ecm_merritt_0351
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/36854
Subject
World War II--Incarceration camps--Social and recreational activities
Identity and values--Men
Identity and values--Women
Place
Manzanar, California
Incarceration Camps--Manzanar
Source
Eastern California Museum
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
Merritt Photo Collection

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