Stockton, Calif. Apr. 1942. A Caterpillar tractor used intensively on this 1300 acre farm which was worked and managed by persons of Japanese ancestry before evacuation. Evacuees from military areas are housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the d

Lange, Dorothea,, photographer.

 

Stockton, Calif. Apr. 1942. A Caterpillar tractor used intensively on this 1300 acre farm which was worked and managed by persons of Japanese ancestry before evacuation. Evacuees from military areas are housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration

 

[10 April 1942]

 

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

 

Notes:

Photograph shows an unidentified Japanese American man driving a tractor in a field before being incarcerated in a concentration camp during World War II.

Title transcribed from item.

No. A-54.

Photographer and date from negative 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--Stockton.

Japanese Americans--Men--1940-1950.

Farming--1940-1950.

Tractors--1940-1950.

Croplands--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.74367

 

Call Number: LOT 1801 [item]

 

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