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 ma...
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.
Subject (Geographic):
California, Manzanar (Calif.), Manzanar National Historic Site (Calif.), and Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
Subject (Name):
Miyatake, Tōyō. and Manzanar War Relocation Center
Subject (Topic):
Japanese Americans, Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945, and Women in Buddhism
