Shaun Hunter
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12/18/2018
Manzanar National Historic Site sits adjacent to Highway 395.
Shaun Hunter
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12/18/2018
Visitors can drive (or walk) a course that traces the grounds of the former detention camp, beginning at the historical entrance.
Shaun Hunter
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12/18/2018
The administration blocks where those who lived and worked at Manzanar resided.
Shaun Hunter
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12/18/2018
A flag flies over the internment camp where American citizens and immigrants of Japanese descent were rounded up and forced to live because of their ethnicity.
Shaun Hunter
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12/18/2018
A large building houses a museum of the former internment camp.
Shaun Hunter
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12/18/2018
Museum displays.
Shaun Hunter
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12/18/2018
Museum displays.
Shaun Hunter
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12/18/2018
The museum includes from interactive displays, to recreations of structures and hardware, films, and displays providing information about the Japanese detention centers of the era.
Shaun Hunter
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12/18/2018
Newer interactive displays show what life was like for workers and for detainees at the internment camp.
Shaun Hunter
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12/18/2018
The museum often has art themed around Manzanar's past residents, including this gallery by Steve Cavallo.
Shaun Hunter
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12/18/2018
New work continues to reveal and display Manzanar's past.
Shaun Hunter
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12/18/2018
A recreation of the garden built by detainees.
Shaun Hunter
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12/18/2018
Translating to "monument to console the souls of the dead," a shrine sits in the Manzanar cemetery. Each year it is the site of an annual pilgrimage by former detainees who seek to remember their imprisonment at Manzanar.