In rare Ansel Adams images, Manzanar War Relocation Center in Inyo County, California shows life of Japanese-American families.

When offering the collection to the Library in 1965, Adams said in a letter that the purpose of his work “was to show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, and loss of property, businesses and professions, had overcome the sense of defeat and dispair by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment.