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Two kimonos in the wind on a laundry line
In San Lorenzo, California, on May 5, 1942. The last laundry drying in the sun before the mass removal of Japanese Americans during World War II. Famed Dust Bowl photographer Dorothea Lange documented the process of internment for the federal government.
Credit: Dorothea Lange/War Relocation Authority