The story of Manzanar is told in print, photos, films

Manzanar is one of the best-documented Japanese-American internment camps. Many books have been written about the relocation center, and it has been the subject of movies, performances and photo exhibits. Here, a selection of Manzanar resources:

Photographs

Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange and Toyo Miyatake documented daily life in the camps with extensive blackand-white photos. Adams published his images in 1944 in the book "Born Free and Equal," and gave his negatives and prints to the Library of Congress. Miyatake's Manzanar photos can be seen at the Eastern California Museum in Independence.

Books

"Born Free and Equal" by Ansel Adams (U.S. Camera, 1944, republished by Spotted Dog Press, 2001, $45).

"Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston (Houghton Mifflin, 1973; republished in paperback by Dell Laurel Leaf, 1995, $5.99, and in hardcover by Houghton Mifflin, 2002, $15).

"Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps" by Michi Nishiura Weglyn (Morrow, 1976; University of Washington Press, 1996, $18.95).

"Manzanar" by John Armor and Peter Wright, photographs by Ansel Adams (Times Books, 1988, $27.50).

"Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II" by Roger Daniels (Hill & Wang, 1993, $11).

"Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience" edited by Lawson Fusao Inada (Heydey Books, 2000, $18.95).

Movies

"Farewell to Manzanar," 1976 TV movie based on book.

"Come See the Paradise," 1990 movie starring Dennis Quaid and Tamlyn Tomita.

"Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray," 2001 documentary. Internet

You can learn more about Manzanar and take a 360-degree "virtual tour" by visiting

www.nps.gov/manz.

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