Burning leaves, autumn dawn, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams. – Historic Photograph Print
![Burning leaves, autumn dawn, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams., [1943] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/53/534dadea1e42-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures Burning leaves, autumn dawn, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Burning leaves, autumn dawn, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.
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Smoke and early light define this view of leaves burning at dawn at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California's Owens Valley. Ansel Adams made the picture in 1943, when Japanese Americans, many of them citizens born in the United States, were held at the camp after being forced from their homes on the West Coast under Executive Order 9066. Adams's wartime photographs of Manzanar, later collected in the book *Born Free and Equal* (1944), recorded everyday routines like this one, and the ordinary work of clearing autumn leaves stands in quiet contrast to the fences and barracks around it.
| Created / published | [1943] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver.1 negative : nitrate. |
| Genre | Gelatin silver prints 1940-1950.Nitrate negatives 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: Manzanar War Relocation Center photographs. |
| Subjects | Manzanar War Relocation Center--People--1940-1950. World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans--California--Manzanar. Japanese Americans--California--Manzanar--1940-1950. Fire--California--Manzanar--1940-1950. Autumn--California--Manzanar--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,415 × 1,112 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219258 |
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