Original caption card speculated that this photo was part of a series taken by Russell Lee to document Japanese Americans in Malheur County, Ore.
Via Flickr, the U.S. Library of Congress has realease 30,000 pics into the public sphere. The catch is they came untagged, and it is a community effort to sort them. Of interest to those who keep up on Japanese issues are a few pics I noted showing a WWII Japanese-American “emergency relocation” camp. The photos of the camp start here (use the box in the upper-right hand to see the others. They end on this picture of some people working in a celery field. Whether or not this is voluntary labor is beyond my sphere of knowledge, but this brief look into those strange times is pretty interesting.
If any probers find more pics of this nature, let us know in the comments.
[via Lifehacker]
