Los Angeles, Calif. Apr. 1942. A vegetable concession in a wholesale produce market operated almost exclusively by residents of Japanese ancestry before they were evacuated and transferred to War Relocation Authority centers for the duration (LOC)

Albers, Clem,, photographer.

 

Los Angeles, Calif. Apr. 1942. A vegetable concession in a wholesale produce market operated almost exclusively by residents of Japanese ancestry before they were evacuated and transferred to War Relocation Authority centers for the duration

 

[11 April 1942]

 

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

 

Notes:

Photograph shows unidentified Japanese American men working at Watanabe business with crates of vegetables before being incarcerated at concentration camps during World War II. Many Japanese Americans permanently or temporarily lost their property as a result of Executive Order 9066.

Title transcribed from item.

No. B-43.

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--Los Angeles.

Japanese Americans--Men--1940-1950.

Farm produce--1940-1950.

Markets--1940-1950.

Crates--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.73165

 

Call Number: LOT 1801 [item]

 

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