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"Japanese Evacuee Colony -- Under a blazing sun that gilded the snowy slopes of Mount Whitney, America's first wartime evacuee colony for alien and Nisei Japanese was opened at Manzanar, a few miles south of Independence in the Owens Valley. Here three Japanese girls view their new homes for the first time."--caption on photograph
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Title:

"Japanese Evacuee Colony -- Under a blazing sun that gilded the snowy slopes of Mount Whitney, America's first wartime evacuee colony for alien and Nisei Japanese was opened at Manzanar, a few miles south of Independence in the Owens Valley. Here three Japanese girls view their new homes for the first time."--caption on photograph JARDA-4-12

Subject:

Japanese American Relocation photograph collection,
Japanese in the U.S. -- Relocation -- California -- Manzanar
Photos 11-20

Publisher:

University of Southern California. Library. Dept. of Special Collections. Regional History Center.

Date:

1942-03-22

Type:

image

Identifier:

JARDA-4-12

Collection:

Japanese American Relocation photograph collection,

Contributing Institution:

University of Southern California. Library. Dept. of Special Collections. Regional History Center.