Unhealthy living conditions and shabby conditions of people in blue collar slums in the U.S. Factories and industrial areas emit smoke, smog, and pollution from smokestacks in the early morning, as children ascend a set of wooden steps in foreground. Piles of trash outside a residential slum area of factory and coal workers. Landscape of crowded shacks and industrial factories clouded with smog. Children play on wooden walkways and railings near shacks. A boy slides down a railing standing up. Sad looking girl looks on. A little boy in overalls has his hands in his pockets and a sad, blank expression on his face. A train passes by on an overhead trestle a few feet away from simple shack homes. Women and children live in unhealthy conditions during Great Depression. Group of children scamper and run over railroad tracks. Shabby children in the dilapidated slum area. A woman watches them. Fast approaching locomotive train speeds toward camera and passes by. After train passes, a boy races back onto the track area to fetch something there. Many scenes of muddy dirt roads, slums, shacks, and factory mills. A man loads coal pieces into a hand bucket and limps back toward a shack, as his right leg has a prosthetic. African American man brushes chickens away from doorway of wooden shack and enters front door. Woman empties wash basin out front porch as dog looks on. Children ascend wooden steps in tenement complex. Children play with a puppy dog. Glum looking sad boy and girl children stare forward. Woman hands laundry from line as boy walks by and enters outhouse. Man smoking pipe draws water from a hand pump. Elderly woman hangs wash on line. Man returns home carrying lunch box. Young woman and old man and old woman each pump water. Man stands at table with wash basin and soap, and scrubs dirt off hands and face after work. Overweight woman cooks food at a coal stove, adds coal and stirs. Smoke from brick chimney. Black smoke from large steam shovel crane and smoke pollution from railroad trains in marshaling yards.
Japanese American children at school in a relocation center (internment camp) during World War 2. The U.S. flag on a relocation center. Students at Kindergarten. Teachers teach small students in a primary class. Girl student in the class solves problems. Students learn to play basketball at a court. Japanese build school buildings. Nisei students and American teacher at a high school. A girl solves trigonometry problems on the black board. A student arranges drawers in a rack. Old Japanese-American learns at a class. A student writes answers on the blackboard.
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 Americans of second generation, at relocation centers (internment camps) during World War II. A relocated family inside their relocation home. Mother cares her infant while the father reads a book. A father and son in officers' dress sit and talk inside a relocation home. The mother sits by them. Clothes dry in house and other things and commodities inside. Japanese girls play in garden and in the yard of their relocation houses.
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.
Nisei, the Japanese Americans of second generation, at relocation centers (internment camps) during World War 2. A relocation center in Wyoming. Japanese man and women carry buckets at a place to bath. Women wash cloth in the public tubs. Nisei gather in morning at the mess. People dine together. Nisei police guards on duty at relocation centers. A Victory Garden with fruits and vegetable developed by Japanese farmers. Nisei farmers in farms. Men and women harvest vegetables from a field. A man on the tractor plows a field. Rice fields developed in Gila River, Amazon by Nisei farmers. Workers feed chicken at a poultry farm. Mechanized farming equipment repaired by Nisei mechanic.
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