The Colors of Internment
An ongoing personal project to colorize photos of Japanese American internment to bring history to life.
Harvest Festival Dance
Gila River Relocation Center. A view at a dance given at camp #2 to celebrate the Harvest Festival, which was held at this camp on Thanksgiving day (11/26/1942). Original photo by Francis Stewart.
Mother and Child
Fumiko Hayashida, a farmer’s wife, wears her best clothes while carrying her 13-month-old daughter as they wait at the Eagledale ferry dock. Hayashida was pregnant at the time of this photograph, and later gave birth to her son Leonard while interned at Manzanar. 227 Bainbridge Island residents of Japanese descent were forcibly evacuated on March 30, 1942. Photo taken by a Seattle newspaper reporter, info in the caption from the Kitsap Sun.
Leaving San Pedro
Last Japanese Americans leave San Pedro, April 5, 1942. Photo by Clem Albers, from the National Archives and Records Administration.