Last year I created a Gallery Walk that contained photographs of the Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar taken by the famous American photographer Ansel Adams. We are all familiar with his landscapes of Yosemite and other national parks, but few know of his photographs of the Japanese Internment camps in Manzanar. The photos are on the Library of Congress, American Memory website. They are not only beautiful, which you would expect from Adams, but they explore the life of Japanese-Americans in these camps. The gallery of pictures is split up into four areas, which are daily life, portraits, sports/leisure activities and agricultural scenes. The website has a staggering number of primary documents, but the section that deals with the Japanese-American internment camps give us a brief overview to the photographer and to the topic of interment. The pictures are presented an easy to find fashion and are titled, though most of the topics are obvious. The site also gives the viewer a chance to pick the resolution of the photograph. The pictures themselves give us a remarkable insight to the daily lives of Japanese-Americans in internment camps and how they struggled to maintain a semblance of normalcy and dignity in such a terrible and humiliating situation. I have included one of the photographs below. Here is a link to the specific part of the site I was talking about:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/anseladams/