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Incarcerated people working in a field, c. 1942‒45

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Working in a farm field, c. 1942‒45

Incarcerated people were sometimes permitted to leave camp for work. Here, Kaz Adachi, Mas Terashito, Jim Mishima, and Frank Mishima, all incarcerated people from the Manzanar, California, incarceration site, take a break from working in a beet field in Idaho.

Courtesy of the Chicago Japanese American Historical Society