Baseball game, Manzanar Relocation Center, Calif. / photograph by Ansel Adams. – Historic Photograph Print
![Baseball game, Manzanar Relocation Center, Calif. / photograph by Ansel Adams., [1943] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/be/be5d59976b08-L.webp)
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Baseball game, Manzanar Relocation Center, Calif. / photograph by Ansel Adams. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Baseball game, Manzanar Relocation Center, Calif. / photograph by Ansel Adams.
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At Manzanar, a camp in California's Owens Valley, a ball game draws a crowd of spectators, and Ansel Adams made the picture in 1943 while documenting daily life behind the barbed wire. The camp held Japanese Americans from the West Coast after Executive Order 9066 in 1942, and baseball was one of the most popular ways residents kept up routines, built community and found a measure of normal life. Adams's caption, recorded on the back of the print, names the place and the event, so the image stands as a record of how people made recreation in a confined and difficult setting.
| Created / published | [1943] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver.1 negative : safety film. |
| Genre | Gelatin silver prints 1940-1950.Safety film 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. 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. |
| 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. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,473 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218687 |
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