Building+Camps

Manzanar in a dust strom. http://www.owensvalleyhistory.com/manzanar2/page12a.html Size and Location in Camps** The Families in Manzanar had a 16 by 20 ft. barrcks with only one family living in it. at some camps families were crammed into 40 by 16 ft barrcks with only white sheets separating each family from each other. Mess malls were between 40 by 16 or 40 by 20 ft. Schools were just buildings, made with the same things that the barrcks were made with, built by the inmates themsevles. Manzanar were set up in blocks, with 3 to 5 blocks sharing one mess mall and restrooms. The camps had many, many blocks, but only one schools. The camps cost a millions of dollars in the 1940's, which in today terms is many, many billions of billions of dollars. Manzanar itself cost for construction was $3,507,018 or $376 per inmate in the 1940's. The barrcks were made with the cheapest materials possible. The materials used, like tar paper and 1/4" wood were highly flammable, that is why the blocks were separated by firebreaks, so that if one block caught the whole camp weren't burn to the ground. The barrcks in Manzanar were made in the cheapest way possilbe. The U.S. Army said " This kind of living was only suttiable for trained miltary soilders on a sort time basic." People stayed there for 3 1/2 years. The Manzanar barrcks were made of 1/4" boards over a wooden frame and the outside of the barrcks were covered by tar paper and the walls and roof was covered with batter board. The only thing for heat was an oil furances which didn't provide much heat. The barrcks had only one bulb hanging from the roof. The barrcks were very drafty and were extremey cold in the winter and very very hot in the summer. The temperture in the camps could reach 120 degrees in the summer and 40 degrees in the winter. Tar paper is a waterproof material that is used in houses to waterproof roofs. It is still used today. .
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Construction of camps were extremely fast, at Manzanar the Neisi and Causains building the camps could build 20 buildings a day but that wasn't even enough to keep up with tha amount of poeple coming into the camps. When the camp was first being construtioned, the construction workers slept in WW1 Army tents, and the first poeple were cramed into small barrcks and fially after more poeple came, the more workers there were, the more barrcks that were built. The workers building the camps, at first were hundreds of causains //carpenters// working ten hours a day and a six day week. The construction at manzanar. [|http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8420/camps.html>.]
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Works Cited:

Portraits of Manzanar." __Manzanar Ringo-En__. August 23, 2007. Dec 10, 2007 http://www.owensvalleyhistory.com/manzanar1/page12.html

"Manzanar." __Japanese America National Museum__. 1998. Japanese America National Museum. 18 Dec 2007 .]

Yu, John. 1996. 19 Dec 2007 <[|http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8420/camps.html>.]