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Mountain View, Calif. Apr. 1942. A farm house in the rural section where farmers of Japanese ancestry raised truck garden crops. Evacuees from this and other military areas will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war (LO

Lange, Dorothea,, photographer.

 

Mountain View, Calif. Apr. 1942. A farm house in the rural section where farmers of Japanese ancestry raised truck garden crops. Evacuees from this and other military areas will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war

 

[18 April 1942]

 

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

 

Notes:

Photograph shows unidentified Japanese American women standing with a dog in front of their house before being incarcerated in a concentration camp during World War II; mailbox across the street is labeled "K. Kubota." Many Japanese Americans permanently or temporarily lost their property as a result of Executive Order 9066.

Title transcribed from item.

No. A-45.

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--Mountain View.

Japanese Americans--Women--1940-1950.

Truck farming--1940-1950.

Farmhouses--1940-1950.

Loss of property--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.73368

 

Call Number: LOT 1801 [item]

 

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Uploaded on November 19, 2021
Taken sometime in 1942