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Vollyball, [i.e. volleyball] Manzanar Relocation Center, Calif. / photograph by Ansel Adams. – Vintage Wall Art

Vollyball, [i.e. volleyball] Manzanar Relocation Center, Calif. / photograph by Ansel Adams., [1943] — historic photograph
Vollyball, [i.e. volleyball] Manzanar Relocation Center, Calif. / photograph by Ansel Adams., [1943]. Historic photograph from the Family Life collection.

(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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Vollyball, [i.e. volleyball] Manzanar Relocation Center, Calif. / photograph by Ansel Adams.

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A volleyball game in progress at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California, photographed by Ansel Adams in 1943, shows recreation going on inside a camp that held Japanese Americans after Executive Order 9066 in 1942 required their removal from the West Coast. Adams, long known for his Sierra landscapes, made a series of pictures at Manzanar that year, and his images of everyday camp life stand in quiet contrast to the fences and barracks that defined the site. The caption, transcribed from Adams's own note on the back of the print, names both the sport and the camp, and the negative is one of the Manzanar photographs held by the Library of Congress.

Created / published[1943]
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver.1 negative : nitrate.
GenreGelatin silver prints 1940-1950.Nitrate negatives 1940-1950.
NotesTitle transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: Manzanar War Relocation Center photographs.
SubjectsManzanar War Relocation Center--Facilities--1940-1950. World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans--California--Manzanar. Japanese Americans--California--Manzanar--1940-1950. Volleyball--California--Manzanar--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,441 × 1,146 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-219259

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