Photograph of children sitting on a bench at Manzanar

Photograph of children sitting on a bench at Manzanar

Identity and values--Children
World War II--Incarceration camps--Incarcerees

Photograph of two small children sitting on a bench in the hospital garden at Manzanar incarceration camp.
The collection was donated by Ralph "Pete" Merritt, Jr. and Patricia Merritt. It is comprised of photographs from an album created by L. Josephine Hawes, the Chief Nurse at the Manzanar Hospital, and individual photographs collected by Ralph P. Merritt, the Project Director of the Manzanar War Relocation Center.

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Eastern California Museum, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections

1942-1945

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