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[Heart Mountain Relocation Center photographs].
BANC PIC 19xx.553--PIC
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Title:
[Heart Mountain Relocation Center photographs]Creator/Contributor:
Omoto, Akira, photographer.Abstract:
Chiefly snapshot photographs depicting camp views and activities of Japanese American internees at Heart Mountain Relocation
Center, Wyoming. One photograph possibly depicts photographer Akira Omoto and sociologist Forrest E. LaViolette. Heart Mountain
is also depicted in a few photographs.
Date:
1942 (issued)Subject:
n-us-wyLaViolette, Forrest E
Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.) -- Photographs
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Photographs
Heart Mountain (Wyo.) -- Photographs
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Collector unknown.
Also includes folder containing photocopy of the academic vita of Forrest E. LaViolette, and an article on the career of LaViolette
by Greg Robinson.
Two photographs attributed in annotations to Akira Omoto.
Heart Mountain Relocation Center photographs, BANC PIC 19xx.553, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Source unknown.
Sociologist Forrest E. LaViolette studied at Reed College and the University of Chicago. In 1943 He served as a community
analyst at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center.
Akira Omoto, born in California in 1904, was interned at Heart Mountain Relocation Center from August, 1942 to October, 1945.
Omoto died in San Francisco in 1975.
Type:
graphicPhysical Description:
photoprint
11 photographs in 1 folder : gelatin silver prints ; 26 x 21 cm or smaller
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC PIC 19xx.553--PIC