Baseball game, Manzanar Relocation Center, Calif. (LOC)

Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984, photographer.

Baseball game, Manzanar Relocation Center, Calif.

[1943]

1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
1 negative : safety film.

Notes:
 Japanese Americans observe an amateur baseball game in progress; one-story buildings and mountains in the background.
Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print.
Original neg. no.: LC-A351-3-M-6.
Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968.
Forms part of: Manzanar War Relocation Center photographs.
Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997.
Published in: Baseball Americana : treasures from the Library of Congress / Harry Katz, et al. New York : Smithsonian Books, 2009.

Subjects:
 Manzanar War Relocation Center--Facilities--1940-1950.
World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans--California--Manzanar.
Japanese Americans--California--Manzanar--1940-1950.
Baseball--California--Manzanar--1940-1950.
Sports spectators--California--Manzanar--1940-1950.

Format: Gelatin silver prints--1940-1950.
Safety film negatives--1940-1950.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Adams, Ansel, 1902- Manzanar War Relocation Center photographs (DLC) 2001695654

More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.manz

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppprs.00369

Call Number: LOT 10479-4, no. 22

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    yvrk, jaycoxfilm, patricio00, zyrcster, and 39 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. budderflyman (40 months ago | reply)

    Wow, I never knew Ansel took this photo. I think one of the biggest black eyes in fairly recent US history was putting Japanese Americans into interment camps. After all, we didn't put German Americans into camps during WW2. Oh, I see, the Germans did not have slanted eyes.

  3. fotogail (40 months ago | reply)

    the baseball memorabilia at Manazanar - at the museum - are among the most moving artifacts in the collection.

  4. allisonmuir (40 months ago | reply)

    Thanks, budderflyman I think you are wise...as Adams who recorded this moment.

  5. Michael Quackenbush [deleted] (40 months ago | reply)

    Easy to make judgments sitting in 2009 and in your cozy home. They bombed the crap out of the US in an undeclared war - even Hitler thought they were nuts.

  6. Steve Mepsted (40 months ago | reply)

    Hello!? - Hiroshima? Nagasaki?

  7. Michael Quackenbush [deleted] (40 months ago | reply)

    My point is history (the past) is easy to judge in the (wrong) context of today. And Hiroshima and Nag came after internment.

  8. mimiflynn (36 months ago | reply)

    Hilter thinking "they were nuts" doesn't justify putting American citizens into relocation camps.

  9. spelio (30 months ago | reply)

    au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/entertainment/7661727/n egatives-fou...

  10. iitsleeah (26 months ago | reply)

    so you're saying because of what people in Japan did back then made it right for innocent Japanese Americans,including my own family, lose everything and go to a camp? what a stupid comment. honestly you don't have the right to make judgements saying it was right.

  11. baron58y (5 months ago | reply)

    Germans had been in the country in large numbers for a hundred years, from the East throughout the midwest and elsewhere. Japanese were more recent arrivals, more frequently found in the west where there was a greater fear (and evidence of) Japanese efforts to launch attacks on our homeland. Manzanar is not a proud footnote in US history, but easier to understand in context.

  12. budderflyman (5 months ago | reply)

    The reason the Japanese were rounded up was that they looked "different".....most Americans looked like they could be German. Germans were as much a threat, if not more, to America as they had far superior submarines, ships and submarines compared to the Japanese. There were far more American CIvil Defense volunteers watching the East coast than there were on the West.

    So, yes, the German Americans indeed formed a large, established part of America by the early '40s. But, there was no excuse to place Japanese Americans in these camps. After all, they were American citizens who were taxpayers. It was also incredible that those who were in these camps were never given any compensation until their families received $20,000 in the 1980s. Why did they have to wait so long?

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