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
Photograph album related to Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park, and Colorado, 1910-1915, accompanied by a laid in typescript that sequentially describes the 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 ...
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.)
Photograph album with images that chiefly document housing and sanitary conditions for mining sites and company towns in the United States, 1910-1915. The album encompasses 289 photographs as well as 17 pictorial postcards, eight clippings, and seven ...
Description:
Inscriptions in English.
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, Asian Americans, Company stores, Company town architecture, Company towns, Miners, Diseases, Health and hygiene, Mines and mineral resources, Mining camps, Sanitary engineering, and Strip mining
