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San Francisco, Calif. Apr. 1942. Wives and children of two men being held as dangerous enemy aliens. They will be evacuated with other persons of Japanese ancestry and will spend the duration of the war in War Relocation Authority centers (LOC)

Lange, Dorothea,, photographer.

 

San Francisco, Calif. Apr. 1942. Wives and children of two men being held as dangerous enemy aliens. They will be evacuated with other persons of Japanese ancestry and will spend the duration of the war in War Relocation Authority centers

 

[25 April 1942]

 

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; mount 24 x 30 cm.

 

Notes:

Photograph shows unidentified Japanese American women and children seated on steps with Civilian Exclusion Order No. 20 displayed before being incarcerated in concentration camps during World War II.

Title transcribed from item.

No. A-567.

Photographer and date from similar negative (A566) in the National Archives.

Photograph from U.S. War Relocation Authority.

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

 

Subjects:

United States.--Wartime Civil Control Administration--1940-1950.

Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945

World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans--California--San Francisco.

Japanese Americans--Women--1940-1950.

Japanese Americans--Children--1940-1950.

Families--1940-1950.

Political prisoners--1940-1950.

Signs (Notices)--1940-1950.

Stairways--1940-1950.

 

Format: Photographic prints--1940-1950.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2002708960

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.74860

 

Call Number: LOT 1801 [item]

 

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Uploaded on November 19, 2021
Taken sometime in 1942