Nisei persons, the Japanese Americans of second generation, at the Manzanar War Relocation Center (internment camp) during World War II. Helmets for football game picked up by players. Children play football in a dusty ground as parents watch sitting on stands. Players during a baseball game, during a basketball game on court and an athlete practicing weightlifting at the relocation center. Children dive in a pond near relocation center during swimming classes. Girls in uniform walk out of a training center. Japanese-American children undergo fine arts training with scenes showing a student learning piano, another student painting, and sculpture. A man feeds scorpions in tank in a Science Fair exhibit. Sign outside a building a the camp reads, "Office of Reports. Free Press" where the camp newspaper is published. View of front cover of an issue of the Manzanar Free Press.
Nisei, the Japanese Americans of second generation, at relocation centers (internment camps) during World War II. Infants and children at a Japanese orphanage play in a garden. Girls play on a see saw, swings and slides. Orphans dine at a mess and talk. A nurse assists infants sleep on their beds at a dormitory.
Nisei, the Japanese-American citizens of second generation, at Manzanar War Relocation center (internment camp) in California during World War II. A relocated family inside their relocation home. Mother cares her infant while the father reads a book. A father and his son's, who are U.S. Army soldiers temporarily home on furlough, sit and talk inside a relocation home. The mother sits by them. Clothes drying on a line in the house. A service star flag (showing that the family has a soldier serving in the war) hangs near a room divider, and other things and commodities inside the house. Shrubs and plantings beside camp housing units. Slated notes, "In their leisure time they have planted flowers, shrubs, and trees, and made beautiful gardens because they feel that they may become permanent residents. Japanese girls play in garden and are seen with women yards and well developed gardens of their relocation houses, including walkways, wooden bridges, and plantings.
Nisei, the Japanese Americans of second generation, at relocation centers (internment) during World War II. A Japanese-American grows guayule plant generally grown in Mexico and Texas, experimentally at Manzanar Relocation Center in California. Japanese-American scientist at a laboratory in the relocation center invents methods to extract more rubber from guayule plant. Dried and ground plant at the laboratory. He makes production equipment from old automobile parts. A man paints old parts and modifies them for use. Rubber extracted from guayule plant rises to the surface as the container gets filled with the chemical. The scientist stretches the rubbers so made to check its quality.
Japanese Americans lower the United States flag at Poston War Relocation Center (internment camp) in Arizona, during World War II. They fold the flag carefully. Elevated view looking down on armored vehicles and tanks during a military parade in the United States. Nisei (second generation Japanese-American) U.S. Army soldiers of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team seen in training for combat operations, at a military base in the United States. Slate notes that their slogan is "Go For Broke" and quotes a soldier as saying, "We have more to fight for than you do. Of course, we fight for our country, America, but we are also out to redeem the name of our race." Japanese- American soldiers navigate an obstacle course in Army training.
Nisei, the Japanese Americans of second generation, at relocation centers (internment camps) during World War II. A liner sails near the Manhattan Bridge on water front of Manhattan. Streets and markets crowded with Japanese-American people. Japanese students at a school. A Japanese man teaches girls lessons to handle film camera. A military officer registers a Nisei couple. Car moves in the desert for site selection of relocation center. Men clear ground for making relocation homes. Homes, colonies and farmlands under construction. A family enters their cabinet in the relocation center. Nisei children play in mud and barbed fences at the relocation centers. Military Police guards during a parade with rifles. A mother and child walk in mud.
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