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Description
Photograph of Bea White and son, with Lucille Bouche and Elizabeth Moxley at the closing of Manzanar incarceration camp. They are standing in front of the entrance to the camp with the closure notification: This project officially closed, November 21-1945, no admittance, except on business.
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, 2.375 x 4.25 inches image/jpeg
World War II--Incarceration camps--Work and jobs World War II--Leaving camp--Returning home Identity and values--Men Identity and values--Children Identity and values--Women
Place
Manzanar, California Incarceration Camps--Manzanar
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