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Album Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives

Title: Members of farm families board evacuation buses. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration. -- Photographer: Lange, Dorothea -- Centerville, California. 5/9/42
Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

From March 1942 to 1946, the US War Relocation Authority (WRA) had jurisdiction over the Japanese and Japanese Americans evacuated from their homes in California, Oregon, and Washington. The WRA photographs document the places that played a role in evacuation, relocation, incarceration, and resettlement — as the government wished to present them. Few, for example, show the barbed wire fences and guards that kept internees imprisoned. Although photographer Dorothea Lange also worked for the WRA, her images manage to suggest a more somber personal experience. In contrast, the paintings by internees portray the camps as experienced by the people who lived there.

For the complete selection of images, visit:
http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/jarda/browse/places.html

Learn more about the Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives at:
http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/jarda/

Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts — reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history. Calisphere's content has been selected from the libraries and museums of the UC campuses, and from a variety of cultural heritage organizations across California. Visit Calisphere at: http://www.calisphere.org

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