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A couple of women standing outside of a house, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

Switchman resting in the hump office while waiting for the next cut to come over at a yard of the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad

Sandwiches were served free aboard the special train carrying migratory workers to upper New York state to bring in the crops

Richwood, West Virginia. Migratory worker en route to New York state from Richwood

Feeding refugees at the railway station in the early days of the refugee flight

A black and white photo of people working in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

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Lone Pine, Calif. May 1942--Three Japanese-American girls with suitcases, who have just arrived by train from Elk Grove and who will be transported by bus from Lone Pine to Manzanar, a war relocation authority center where they will remain for the duration of war

San Francisco, Calif., April 1942. A lunch hour scene at the Weill public school in the so-called international section. Many children of Japanese ancestry like the boy shown here with his Caucasian chum, were evacuated with their parents from this neighborhood, to go to the War relocation authority centers for the duration of the war

San Francisco, Calif., April 1942. Children at the Weill public school for the so-called international settlement and including many Japanese-Americans, saluting the flag. They include evacuees of Japanese descent who will be housed in War relocation authority centers for the duration

Manzanar, Calif., April 1942 - boys starting a ball game soon after their arrival at Manzanar, a War Relocation Authority center for the evacuees of Japanese ancestry from certain West Coast areas

Salinas, Calif. Apr. 1942--A family of Japanese descent arriving at the assembly center prior to their transfer to a War relocation authority center for the duration of the war / photo by Albers.

[Japanese-Americans transferring from train to bus at Lone Pine, California, bound for war relocation authority center at Manzanar]

Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order. Loading baggage on train which will take Japanese-Americans from West Coast to Owens Valley

Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order. Japanese-American family waiting for train to take them to Owens Valley

Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of the Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order. Japanese-American children waiting for a train to take them and their parents to Owens Valley

Lone Pine, Calif., May 1942 - a group arriving by train from Elk Grove, and boarding a bus for Manzanar, a War relocation authority center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry from certain West Coast area[s], will stay for the duration of the war

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Title and other information transcribed from caption card.

Photograph from U.S. War Relocation Authority.

No. D-532.

Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information Collection (Library of Congress).

Caption card tracings: WWII; Japanese in U.S.; Geogr.

Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, led the United States into World War II and radically changed the lives of 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry living in the United States. The attack intensified racial prejudices and led to fear of potential sabotage and espionage by Japanese Americans among some in the government, military, news media, and public. In February, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 authorizing the Secretary of War to establish Military Areas and to remove from those areas anyone who might threaten the war effort. Without due process, the government gave everyone of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast only days to decide what to do with their houses, farms, businesses, and other possessions. Most families sold their belongings at a significant loss. Some rented their properties to neighbors. Others left possessions with friends or religious groups. Some abandoned their property. They did not know where they were going or for how long. Each family was assigned an identification number and loaded into cars, buses, trucks, and trains, taking only what they could carry. Japanese Americans were transported under military guard to 17 temporary assembly centers located at racetracks, fairgrounds, and similar facilities in Washington, Oregon, California, and Arizona. Then they were moved to one of 10 hastily built relocation centers including Manzazar and Tule Lake Relocation Center. By November, 1942, the relocation was complete. Read more: https://www.nps.gov/manz/learn/historyculture/japanese-americans-at-manzanar.htm

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Japanese Americans at Manzanar and Tule Lake

Manzanar is most widely known as the site of one of ten camps where over 110,000 Japanese Americans were kept during World War II.
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Lone Pine (Calif.) ,  36.60611, -118.06278
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Power and conservation. Chickamauga Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Insulators and bus wires in the switchyard of the TVA's Chickamauga Dam, located near Chattanooga, 471 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River. The dam has an authorized power installation of 81,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 108,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system. The power that passes through this switchyard serves many useful domestic, agricultural and industrial uses

Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). The Halls often go boating o the Tennessee River

Westport, Connecticut. Commuter kissing his wife before catching train for New York

A group of men standing next to each other, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

Bus transportation, in [...] of bus

New oversize trailer for war workers. Note modern floating axle on the new oversize bus trailer which holds 141 persons and may be the answer to the problem of transporting war workers to outlying defense plants. Designed and built by Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with cooperation of private companies, the trailer rolls on eight standard truck size tires, with the usual six tires on the power unit. The truck trailer unit as a whole is fifty-five feet long

Children at Sunday school class, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Employees of American Bridge Company (Unitied States Steel) waiting for bus. Ambridge, Pennsylvania

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Arrangements are made by phone, and Don's car is left at home. The few miles left in those tires of his can be used for emergency, or the car may be put completely out of service for the duration. Here, Don leaves the plant ready for the trip home under new car pooling arrangement

Parker, Ariz. Apr. 1942. constructing buildings for Japanese-American evacuees at the War relocation authority center on the Colorado River Indian Reservation

Richwood, West Virginia. These boys stayed at home when the special train left Richwood carrying agricultural workers to upper New York state to help in the harvest

Wedding reception of Tom and Joyce Todorovic at the Holiday Inn, Elk Grove, Chicago, Illinois

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