May 14, 2014
Thesis: Internment of Memory (Salyers)
For instance, Manzanar, California was the home of the Children's Village, the only orphanage within the ten WRA Camps adn it also included an experimental guayule plantation and laboratory used to produce a rubber substitute. The 6,ooo acres at Manzanar housed over 100 orphans among its 10,000 inhabitants and is considered one of the bets documented camps as both acclaimed photographds Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams photographed the camp as outside obervers, while Toyo Miyatake illegally documented his time there as a detainee with a contraband homemade camera as well."(64)