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The following images were made by Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information photographers during World War II and are part of the famous FSA photography series that I have written about here. The color photographs--which were made in the first decade or so of the use of this new medium--represented only about 1,600 of the collection of 160,000 images in the FSA archive, and are far less known than their black-and-white complements, many of which are new iconic symbols for this period. The color images are beautiful works, and somehow seem to bring these historic images a little closer to the present.
This series are some of the few color images made of daily life in the Japanese Relocation Camp at Tule Lake in 1942/3. The internment ("relocation") of American citizens of Japanese heritage in "reservations" is a result of Executive Order 9066, signed into power by Franklin Roosevelt on 19 February 1942. I've written about this episode in several places on this blog, including here.
Japanese-American camp, war emergency evacuation,[Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.] 1942 or 1943.
Japanese-American camp, war emergency relocation, [Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.] 1942/1943.
SUMMARY
Photograph shows overview of camp with Abalone Mountain in the distance.
CREATED/PUBLISHED
1942 or 1943.
NOTES
Original caption card speculated that this photo was part of a series taken by Russell Lee to document Japanese Americans in Malheur County, Ore. Re-identified as Tule Lake because of similarity to LC-USW36-789, which shows Abalone Mountain.
Japanese-American camp, war emergency evacuation, [Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.] 1942 or 1943.
NOTES
"Original caption card speculated that this photo was part of a series taken by Russell Lee to document Japanese Americans in Malheur County, Ore., and showed people transplanting celery. Re-identified as Tule Lake because of similarity to LC-USW36-789, which shows Abalone Mountain."
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