A member of the Nagamine family external the family’s home in Los Angeles. Clem Albers,April 11, 1942. Sign posted in a hotel in the “tiny Tokyo” section of Los Angeles after the departure of residents of Japanese ancestry. Clem Albers, and April 11,1942. A child sits amid family baggage while waiting for the bus to a government “assembly middle. Clem Albers, April 1942. Military police on duty in a watch tower at the Santa Anita Assembly middle. This middle was established on the grounds of the Santa Anita Park racetrack. Clem Albers, and April 6,1942. New arrivals form a line at the Santa Anita Assembly middle. Clem Albers, April 6, and 1942. A group of women external the barracks where they live at the Salinas Assembly middle. Clem Albers,March 31, 1942. A new arrival in his living quarters at the Manzanar camp. Clem Albers, and April 2,1942.
Clem Albers (1903-1990), War
Relocation Authority (WRA)
PhotographerA Michigan native, and Albers grew up in Berkeley,California.
While a teenager, he began working as a photographer for the San Francisco
Bulletin. He was later employed by the San Francisco Chronicle.
The WRA hired Albers on a short-term contract during the
spring of 1942. He shot many memorable photographs documenting the “evacuation”
and incarceration process in California and Arizona. Albers left the WRA in May
1942 and became a photographer in the United States Maritime Service. He
returned to the San Francisco Chronicle after the war and, and eventually,became
the newspapers chief photographer.
See
much of Alberss work as a WRA photographer, including the photos
seen above, or in our temporary exhibition IMAGES OF INTERNMENT: THE INCARCERATION OF
JAPANESE AMERICANS DURING WORLD WAR II on
display in the Library’s William J. vanden Heuvel Gallery through December 31,2017: https://fdrlibrary.org/exhibitions
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