"Japanese Girls Make Selves At Home -- These Japanese girls, left to right, Shizuko Yarmada, Lillian Ito and Mary Wada, lost no time making themselves comfortable in their new quarters after their arrival Mar. 23, 1942, at the alien reception center at Manzanar, California, with other emigres." -- caption on photograph.
"Japanese Evacuee Colony -- Under a blazing sun that gilded the snowy slopes of Mount Whitney, America's first wartime evacuee colony for alien and Nisei Japanese was opened at Manzanar, a few miles south of Independence in the Owens Valley. Here three Japanese girls view their new homes for the first time." -- caption on photograph.
