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., and Inscription in negative in Japanese and translated in English: Manzanar Buddhist Ladies' Club, August 13, 1943.
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
Photograph album related to Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park, and Colorado, 1910-1915, accompanied by a laid in typescript that sequentially describes the photographs, Photographs of Wyoming include sites at Bridger-Teton National Forest, Grand Teton National Park, and Shoshone National Forest. Images of Bridger-Teton National Forest include views of the Green River, Mammoth Glacier, Minor Glacier, Squaretop Mountain, and Temple Peak. Views of the Shoshone National Forest include Gannett Glacier and Gannett Peak (identified as "Gans Peak"). Images of Grand Teton National Park include views of Jackson Lake. Other sites documented in Wyoming include Fremont Lake, Fremont Peak, elk and antelope at Jackson Hole, and deer at the ranch of Charles Louis Sparks near Rock Springs. Informal portraits include Stroud posing with harvested deer, including an image with another man identified "Kent" as well as an view of a man identified as "Colburn" carrying a United States flag to place on Fremont Peak in July 1914. Three laid in photographs related to the Stroud ranch show a work party with bags of wool following sheep shearing, an overview of the ranch, and an elk herd, Photographs of Yellowstone National Park include views of Mammoth Hot Springs and the Liberty Cap as well as the Lower Yellowstone Falls and Old Faithful Inn, and Photographs of northwestern Colorado include views of Canyon of Lodore on the Green River with three images duplicated by laid in photographs
Description:
William John Stroud (1854-1946), also known as “Rocky Mountain Bill," was a furniture store owner, a lecturer on outdoor life, and an amateur photographer chiefly active at Rock Springs, Wyoming. He explored the territory between Rock Springs and the southern border of Yellowstone National Park, which he lectured on frequently for the Isaak Walton League of America., Captions in English., Title supplied by cataloger., Place of creation supplied by cataloger., Date of creation supplied by cataloger., and Stored in 1 box.
Subject (Geographic):
Wyoming, Bridger-Teton National Forest (Wyo.), Colorado, Fremont Lake (Wyo.), Fremont Peak (Wyo.), Gannett Glacier (Wyo.), Gannett Peak (Wyo.), Grand Teton National Park (Wyo.), Green River (Colo.), Green River (Wyo.), Jackson Hole (Wyo.), Jackson Lake (Teton County, Wyo.), Lodore, Canyon of (Colo.), Lower Yellowstone Falls (Wyo.), Mammoth Glacier (Wyo.), Mammoth Hot Springs (Wyo.), Minor Glacier (Wyo.), Rock Springs (Wyo.), Shoshone National Forest (Wyo.), Squaretop Mountain (Wyo.), Temple Peak (Wyo.), and Yellowstone National Park
Subject (Name):
Sparks, Charles Louis, 1867-1930, Stroud, William John, 1854-1946, and Old Faithful Inn (Wyo.)