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This black-and-white landscape photograph, taken from an elevated perspective on a hill, overlooks a vast, flat valley filled with dozens of long, narrow, dark-colored barracks arranged in tight, orderly rows. The buildings are uniform in shape and orientation, stretching across the middle ground of the image. Between the rows of barracks, there are wide, unpaved dirt paths or roads. In the foreground, the sparse, scrubby vegetation of a hillside slopes downward toward the encampment. In the background, a chain of mountains with a jagged horizon rises against a sky filled with darker, fluffy clouds. The lighting is diffuse and even, casting few shadows across the valley floor. Below the photograph, a white border contains a color calibration strip.

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Title
Looking east over the reclocation center from reservoir hill.
Creator
Parker, Tom, author
Variant Title
Looking east over the relocation center from reservoir hill. Photographer: Tom Parker
Published
Sept. 16, 1942
Full Collection Name
Activities and entertainment at Heart Mountain Relocation Center Photographs 1942-1943
Other Identifiers
BANC PIC 1988.084:07--A
Subject (Corporate)
Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.)
Subject (Topic)
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Photographs
Geographic Coverage
Wyoming.
Type
Image
Format
Photographs
Extent
1 photograph
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Usage Statement
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Image description generated by AI (Gemini 3.0 Fast) and reviewed, February 2026 .

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