Manzanar, Calif. June 1942. Nancy Kawashima, left, and Emiko Hino, both from Los Angeles, arranging paper flowers for one of many art exhibitions at Manzanar, a War Relocation Authority center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry will spend the duration of the war [graphic].

Manzanar, Calif. June 1942. Nancy Kawashima, left, and Emiko Hino, both from Los Angeles, arranging paper flowers for one of many art exhibitions at Manzanar, a War Relocation Authority center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry will spend the duration of the war [graphic]. Stewart, Francis, 1909-1992, photographer. United States. War Relocation Authority. still image Photographic prints 1940-1950. gmgpc [1 June 1942] eng Photograph shows two young Japanese American women smiling for the camera as they display their paper flower arrangement at the concentration camp where they were incarcerated during World War II. Title transcribed from item. No. D-549. Photographer and date from negative in the National Archives. Photograph from U.S. War Relocation Authority. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information Collection (Library of Congress). United States. Wartime Civil Control Administration--1940-1950. Manzanar War Relocation Center--1940-1950. Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945. World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans--California--Manzanar. Japanese Americans--Women--1940-1950. Political prisoners--1940-1950. Concentration camps--1940-1950. Flower arrangements--1940-1950. Origami--1940-1950. Exhibitions--1940-1950. Smiling--1940-1950. Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.74328 No known restrictions on publication.