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• Lange's Photographs - Picturing Japanese Internment

       Hired by the WRA, Dorothea Lange had a history of documenting and critiquing social struggles and change. Lange was not afraid to use her photographs to critique the government for which she...

• Family on the Steps of Their Barracks - Picturing Japanese Internment

  An examination of another pair of photographs reveals that one of the primary influential factors on children’s reactions is their context, or whether other children and/or adults accompany them....

• Child of Barracks Steps - Picturing Japanese Internment

   Like the carnival photograph, another photograph shows a young boy with a blank stare standing in front of barracks in the Minidoka camp (“Child on Barracks Steps”). The young boy is dressed in...

• The Photographs - Picturing Japanese Internment

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• Sixth-Grade Students - Picturing Japanese Internment

  This is one of the first pictures in the Densho Archives. It is listed as being taken in 1942 in the Tule Lake internment camp. This would have been taken shortly after the U.S. Attorney General...

• Ashley's Page - Picturing Japanese Internment

  Dorothea Lange was a documentary photographer hired by the FSA and WRA to document historical events such as the Great Depression and the Internment of Japanese Americans. Though hired by the...