[Panoramic photograph of the Women's Association of the Buddhist Church at the Manzanar concentration camp].

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Title: [Panoramic photograph of the Women's Association of the Buddhist Church at the Manzanar concentration camp].
Creator: Miyatake, Tōyō, photographer
Published / Created: 1943 August 13.
Publication Place: Manzanar, California
Abstract: Panoramic photograph that documents the Women's Association of the Buddhist Church at the Manzanar concentration camp at Manzanar, California, on August 13, 1943. The group portrait includes approximately 315 Japanese American women as well as four male priests and four children arranged seated and standing in six rows at the central yard of the camp as well as the Sierra Nevada mountains in the background
Description: Tōyō Miyatake (1895-1979) was a Japanese American photographer known for his photographs documenting Japanese American people and the Japanese American incarceration at the Manzanar War Relocation Center during World War II.
Inscriptions in Japanese.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Place of creation supplied by cataloger.
Date from inscription in negative.
Inscription in negative in Japanese and translated in English: Manzanar Buddhist Ladies' Club, August 13, 1943.
Provenance: Purchased from McBride Rare Books on the William Robertson Coe Fund No. 3, 2021.
Extent: 1 photograph : 26 x 88 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Photographic prints
Panoramic photographs
Photographs
Material: black and white print ;
Resource Type: still image and rdacontent
Subject (Geographic): California
Manzanar (Calif.)
Manzanar National Historic Site (Calif.)
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
Subject (Name): Miyatake, Tōyō.
Manzanar War Relocation Center
Subject (Topic): Japanese Americans
Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945
Women in Buddhism
Subjects: Miyatake, Tōyō
Manzanar War Relocation Center > Pictorial works
Japanese Americans > Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945 > Pictorial works
Women in Buddhism > California > Pictorial works
California > Pictorial works
Manzanar (Calif.) > Pictorial works
Manzanar National Historic Site (Calif.) > Pictorial works
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) > Pictorial works

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Citation: Tōyō Miyatake Panoramic Photograph of the Women's Association of the Buddhist Church at the Manzanar Concentration Camp. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.