Title:
Digging canals
Creator/Contributor:
Iwata, Jack, Japanese American, photographer (photographer)
Date:
1942-1945
Identifier:
93.102.193
Format:
8 x 10 in.
General Physical Description:
Black and white photograph
General Content Note:
1 b&w image taken at an unspecified California concentration camp. Exterior shot of men digging an irrigation channel. About
12-13 men with pickaxes and shovels digging and clearing brush. They are beside a ditch. Mountains to the left in the background
with a little snow. Water is in the ditch. Car parked to the L, man holding a camera is standing next to the open car door.
Barracks and utility poles are in the background.
Subjects:
Concentration camps
irrigation canals and flumes
shovels
picks (tools)
