camp photo
date: label: date made
content: mid 20th century
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: This historic photograph taken in Wyoming, shows the outline of a small child, named Gerald, watching the sunset. He's gazing over the Heart Mountain incarceration camp, while the sun is going down behind the clouds. Gerald is one of many small children that were incarcerated with their parents and families during WWII. The back says "Gerald admiring the sunset in Wyoming". His small silhouette contrasts to the vast expanse of the Wyoming sky and the Heart Mountain prison camp.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Wyoming, Heart Mountain
topic: label: related event
content: Japanese American Internment
label: related event
content: World War II
setName: label: See more items in
content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Japanese American
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content: Executive Order 9066
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Janice Faden
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0037.14
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0037.14
label: accession number
content: 2016.0037
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 4 7/8 in; 10.16 cm x 12.3825 cm