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Pinedale (Calif.) Assembly Center - the attention of a dentist was part of the medical care afforded evacuees, licensed dentists amoung the evacuees performing this service / U.S. Army Signal Corps.

Pinedale (Calif.) Assembly Center - the attention of a dentist was par...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Evacuees of Japanese ancestry attending Memorial Day services at Manzanar, California, a War Relocation authority center--Boy Scouts and American Legion members participating in the services appear in the foreground ...

Evacuees of Japanese ancestry attending Memorial Day services at Manza...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Manzanar, Calif. Apr. 1942--Yaeko Yamashita, in doorway, watching Fugiko Koba trying a new pair of geta, which are stilt-like sandals especially useful in dust--They are evacuees of Japanese descent living at the War relocation authority center / photo by Albers.

Manzanar, Calif. Apr. 1942--Yaeko Yamashita, in doorway, watching Fugi...

Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information Collection (Library of Congress). US War relocation authority. No. B14.

Oakland, Calif., Mar. 1942. A large sign reading "I am an American" placed in the window of a store, at 13th and Franklin streets, on December 8, the day after Pearl Harbor. The store was closed following orders to persons of Japanese descent to evacuate from certain West Coast areas. The owner, a University of California graduate, will be housed with hundreds of evacuees in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war

Oakland, Calif., Mar. 1942. A large sign reading "I am an American" pl...

Photograph shows the Wanto Co. store located at 401 - 403 Eighth and Franklin Streets in Oakland, California. The business was owned by the Matsuda family. Tatsuro Matsuda, a University of California graduate, ... More

Japanese evacuees, San Francisco

Japanese evacuees, San Francisco

Photo attributed to Dorothea Lange. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Photograph from U.S. War Relocation Authority. No. A-87. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information... More

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

Parker, Ariz. Apr. 1942. constructing buildings for Japanese-American ...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

San Francisco, Calif., April 1942 - evacuees of Japanese descent among a contingent of 664, first to be removed from San Francisco, awaiting buses to transport them to the Santa Anita reception center at Arcadia, to be transported, later, to war relocation authority centers for the duration of the war

San Francisco, Calif., April 1942 - evacuees of Japanese descent among...

Photo attributed to Dorothea Lange. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Photograph from U.S. War Relocation Authority. No. A-525. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Informatio... More

Other evacuees were transported from their residence areas to assembly centers by train / Signal Corps U.S. Army.

Other evacuees were transported from their residence areas to assembly...

Photograph shows a group of evacuees assembled at a Los Angeles railroad station waiting to board train for Santa Anita Assembly Center. Title and caption from item. Blind stamped: Signal Corps U.S. Army. Signa... More

Puyallup (Wash.) Assembly Center - construction crews are still on the job, though from the wash lines the evacuees are there too

Puyallup (Wash.) Assembly Center - construction crews are still on the...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Los Angeles County, California. The evacuation of Japanese and Japanese-Americans from West coast areas under United States Army war emergency order. Construction work on accommodations for the evacuees at the Santa Anita reception center

Los Angeles County, California. The evacuation of Japanese and Japanes...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Pinedale (Calif.) Assembly Center - Evacuees enjoying a hearty meal in Center dining hall / U.S. Army Signal Corps.

Pinedale (Calif.) Assembly Center - Evacuees enjoying a hearty meal in...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

London, England. Vegetables grown in the United States and dehydrated for economical shipment across the Atlantc provide a hot and nourishing dish for little evacuees from London's East End

London, England. Vegetables grown in the United States and dehydrated ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mountain View, Calif., April 1942 - a grandmother and the youngest of 13 grandchildren photographed on a ranch in Santa Clara county before evacuees of Japanese ancestry were transferred to War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war

Mountain View, Calif., April 1942 - a grandmother and the youngest of ...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Photograph from U.S. War Relocation Authority. No. A-532. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information Collection (Library of Congress). ... More

Japanese relocation, California. All baggage is inspected before newcomers enter the Santa Anita Park Assembly Center at Arcadia, California, for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Evacuees are transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers for the duration

Japanese relocation, California. All baggage is inspected before newco...

Officer inspecting Japanese American woman's suitcase. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Transfer of the evacuees from the Assembly Centers to War Relocation Centers was conducted by the Army / Signal Corps U.S. Army.

Transfer of the evacuees from the Assembly Centers to War Relocation C...

Caption continues: Train lists were made up so that families would not be separated and in most instances groups associated by residence in pre-evacuation days were kept together. Here is a busy scene of famil... More

Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of the Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order. Evacuees waiting with their luggage at the old Santa Fe station for a train to take them to Owens Valley

Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of the Japanese-Americans from...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Evacuees boarding a special train at Santa Anita (California) Assembly Center enroute to a War Relocation Center / Signal Corps U.S. Army.

Evacuees boarding a special train at Santa Anita (California) Assembly...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Manzanar, Calif., April 1942 - distributor of one of the 150 impounded automobiles owned by evacuees of Japanese ancestry assigned to the War Relocation Authority Center

Manzanar, Calif., April 1942 - distributor of one of the 150 impounded...

Photo attributed to Clem Albers. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Photograph from U.S. War Relocation Authority. No. B-67. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information Co... More

San Francisco, Calif., Apr. 1942--Residents, of Japanese ancestry, appearing at the Civil control station for registration in response to the Army's exclusion order No. 20--The evacuees will be housed in War relocation authority centers for the duration

San Francisco, Calif., Apr. 1942--Residents, of Japanese ancestry, app...

No. A-515. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of people standing around a pile of luggage. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of people standing around a pile of luggage. Office of War Inf...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

San Francisco, Calif., April 1942 - Evacuees of Japanese descent being inoculated as they register for evacuation

San Francisco, Calif., April 1942 - Evacuees of Japanese descent being...

Two small girls being inoculated, as several other people watch. Photo attributed to Dorothea Lange. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Photograph from U.S. War Relocation Authority. No.... More

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

Lone Pine, Calif., May 1942 - a group arriving by train from Elk Grove...

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). ... More

San Francisco, Calif., April 1942. First-graders, some of Japanese ancestry, at the Weill public school pledging allegience to the United States flag. The evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War relocation authority centers for the duration of the war

San Francisco, Calif., April 1942. First-graders, some of Japanese anc...

Relocation of Japanese-Americans. Calif. Photo attributed to Dorothea Lange. Title and other information transcribed from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Title transcribed from photo mount. Photograph ... More

Japanese relocation, California. Ester Naite, an office worker from Los Angeles, is shown operating an electric iron in her quarters at Manzanar, California, a War Relocation Authority center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry will spend the duration. Miss Naito works in an office at the center

Japanese relocation, California. Ester Naite, an office worker from Lo...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Turlock, California. Women have been active in Red Cross work. They have perfected plans for taking care of possible evacuees from the coast

Turlock, California. Women have been active in Red Cross work. They ha...

Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pinedale (Calif.) Assembly Center - another grouping of evacuees toward the rim of the Center prior to departing for relocation center

Pinedale (Calif.) Assembly Center - another grouping of evacuees towar...

Photograph shows a large group of Japanese American detainees at an assembly center awaiting transportation to a relocation center. Signal Corps photo: 9CA-42-2890-PSF. S 86. Blind stamped in lower left: U.S. ... More

Santa Anita reception center, Arcadia, Calif., April 1942 - a general view of quarters for evacuees of Japanese ancestry who will be transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war

Santa Anita reception center, Arcadia, Calif., April 1942 - a general ...

Photo attributed to Clem Albers. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Photograph from U.S. War Relocation Authority. No. B-406. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information C... More

Japanese relocation, California. All baggage is inspected before newcomers enter the Santa Anita Park Assembly Center at Arcadia, California, for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Evacuees are transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers for the duration

Japanese relocation, California. All baggage is inspected before newco...

Officer inspecting Japanese American woman's suitcase. Caption card lists some of the printing history for image. Title and other information from caption card. Office for Emergency Management. Transfer; United... More

San Francisco, Calif., Apr. 1942 - evacuees of Japanese descent being inoculated as they registered for evacuation, and assignment, later, to war relocation authority centers for the duration of the war

San Francisco, Calif., Apr. 1942 - evacuees of Japanese descent being ...

Men and women in line being inoculated by nurse. Photograph attributed to Dorothea Lange. Photograph from U.S. War Relocation Authority. J7647. No. A-503. Forms part of: Farm Security Administration and Office... More

[Evacuees of Japanese descent at the assembly center from which they will be transferred ultimately to a War Relocation Authority center for the duration of the war, Salinas, Calif.]

[Evacuees of Japanese descent at the assembly center from which they w...

Man and woman in room. Photo attributed to Clem Albers. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Photograph from U.S. War Relocation Authority. No. A-224. Farm Security Administration and Offi... More

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

Manzanar, Calif., April 1942 - boys starting a ball game soon after th...

Photograph shows four boys playing baseball on a sand-lot at Manzanar, California. Photograph from U.S. War Relocation Authority. No. B-134. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information Collectio... More

Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of the Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order. Evacuees waiting with their luggage at the old Santa Fe station for a train to take them to Owens Valley

Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of the Japanese-Americans from...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Japanese relocation, California. Baggage belonging to evacuees of Japanese ancestry at an assembly center in Salinas, California, prior to a War Relocation Authority center

Japanese relocation, California. Baggage belonging to evacuees of Japa...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Japanese relocation, California. A view of the quarters at Manzanar, California, a War Relocation Authority Center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry will spend the duration. Mount Whitney, highest peak in the United States, is in the background

Japanese relocation, California. A view of the quarters at Manzanar, C...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of the Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order. Evacuees waiting with their luggage at the old Santa Fe station for a train to take them to Owens Valley

Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of the Japanese-Americans from...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

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

San Francisco, Calif., April 1942. Children at the Weill public school...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Title transcribed from photo mount. Photograph from U.S. War Relocation Authority. Farm Security Administration and Office o... More

Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Japanese-American who is part of the voluntary police force. The Japanese-American evacuees have their own police force

Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Japanes...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.