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Toward Los Angeles, California (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • 36 older comments, and then…
  • lawrence windrush said:
    Amazingly the first time i have seen this
  • (deaf mute) said:
    I think it's the first time for me too, as Lange is always represented by the Migrant Mother photo in the textbooks. This is incredible street photography with a difference. -- Seen in your FSA/OWI Favorites set. (?)
  • Shay Thomason said:
    This photo tells a story in a way that few photos do. I dig.
  • Acoustic Bubble said:
    Good lord!
  • Jeremy Chan said:
    Just amazing.

Young Migratory Mother in Edison, Kern County, California, Originally from Texas

from U.S. National Archives

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  • j boyd said:
    Amazing. What a wonderful new resource on flickr.
  • Eric Hunt said:
    Wow.
  • The U.S. National Archives said:
    We're glad you like it! Dorothea Lange's work is certainly striking, so we're glad to be able to share! Kristen (U.S. National Archives)
  • j boyd said:
    Can you make a collection of her works in the archive? I'm having trouble getting at it with the search function.
  • The U.S. National Archives said:
    We are looking into this. Jerry (U.S. National Archives)

Two Children of the Mochida Family, with Their Parents, Awaiting Evacuation Bus

from U.S. National Archives

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  • pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:
    From Matt O'Brien, "Photos of Dark Historical Event Emerge," Oakland Tribune (16 November 2006), online here:
    findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20061116/ai_n168...


    "I don't even remember the picture being taken," said Satsuki Ward, who was barely 10 years old when she and her family members were uprooted from their East Bay home in May 1942. "It was utter chaos."

    Ward, now a 76-year-old Fairfield resident, found out about Lange and her photographs of Japanese-American internment much later. The portrait of the Mochida family wearing identification tags around their necks made the pages of Newsweek magazine and other outlets, and helped expose a dark moment in American history.
    ....
    Miyuki Hirano of Sparks, Nev., another one of the surviving Mochida siblings, remembers seeing her face on that book's cover.

    But while they occasionally see reminders of their youth in print, it took many years for Mochida family members to be able to talk frankly about what happened to them, said Kayoko Ikuma, 69, of San Mateo, who was 4 when Lange took her photo.

    Ikuma said witnessing the treatment of America's Muslim population has made her try to share her experience more.

    Their parents avoided discussing the internment after the war. Their father, who had owned a successful flower-growing business in unincorporated Alameda County, returned from the camps unhappy, spent the rest of his life in domestic labor and took to drinking.

    The Lange photographs, and the Mochida children's more vivid memories of years spent in the Utah camp, is all they have left from that time.
  • The U.S. National Archives said:
    Pennylrichardsca, thanks for letting us know about this fascinating article about the Mochida family. This is definitely one of those haunting photographs of children where you wonder whatever happened to them. It's a sad story.

    You might be interested in checking out nearly 4,000 photographs taken by the War Relocation Authority of the Japanese American Internment during World War II that are available in our online catalog. We have a webpage that allows you to click on links for search topics within this group of photos:
    www.archives.gov/research/arc/topics/japanese-americans/

    We hope to get those photos on Flickr at some point, too.
  • Robert Carrier said:
    Thank you for sharing these incredibly powerful photographs.
  • amezquita_claudia said:
    Very moving...
  • The U.S. National Archives said:
    You are welcome! This has been one of the more talked about photographs we've shared on the U.S. National Archives photostream. We recommend that you investigate earlier posts for the image which lead to more information about the young girls in the photograph.

    Jerry (U.S. National Archives)