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PHOTOGRAPHS

Work of Masumi Hayashi, Cleveland State University

Collection from the National Archives and Records Administration

Posting of Exclusion Order at First and Front Streets in San Francisco, California, directing removal of persons of Japanese ancestry from the first section in San Francisco to be affected by the evacuation.

Thank You Note in "Little Tokyo" in Los Angeles, California. Mr. and Mrs. K. Tseri have closed their drugstore in preparation for the forthcoming evacuation from their home and business.

Merchandise Sale in San Francisco, California. Customers buy merchandise in a store operated by a proprietor of Japanese ancestry during a pre-evacuation sale. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war.

Children Pledge Allegiance to the Flag in San Francisco, California, at Raphael Weill Public School.  Children in families of Japanese ancestry were evacuated with their parents and will be housed for the duration in War Relocation Authority centers where facilities will be provided for them to continue their education.

Family in Front of Farmhouse in Mountain View, California. Members of the Shibuya family are pictured at their home before evacuation. The father and the mother were born in Japan and came to this country in 1904.  At that time the father had $60 in cash and a basket of clothes. He later built a prosperous business of raising select varieties of chrysanthemums which he shipped to Eastern markets under his own trade name. Six  children in the family were born in the United States.

Packing Up in San Francisco, California. Dave Tatsuno rereads notes he compiled while he was a student at the University of California where he was graduated in 1936. Tatsuno, with his two-year-old son at his side, is packing his possessions at 2625 Buchanan Street, prior to evacuation of residents of Japanese ancestry. Evacuees will be housed at War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

Registration in San Francisco, California. Residents of Japanese ancestry file forms containing personal data, two days before evacuation, at a Wartime Civil Control Administration station.

Waiting for Evacuation in San Francisco, California. With baggage stacked, residents of Japanese ancestry await a bus at the Wartime Civil Control Administration station, 2020 Van Ness Avenue, as part of the first group of 664 to be evacuated from San Francisco on April 6, 1942. Evacuees will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

Wartime Civil Control Station in San Francisco, California. Japanese family heads and persons living alone form a line outside the station located in the Japanese American Citizens League Auditorium at 2031 Bush Street, to appear for "processing" in response to Civilian Exclusion Order Number 20.

Sorting Baggage at Minidoka in Eden, Idaho. Baggage belonging to evacuees from the assembly center at Puyallup, Washington, is sorted and trucked to owners in their barrack apartments.

Barracks Assigned at Minidoka in Eden, Idaho. Newly arrived evacuees from the assembly center at Puyallup, Washington, are registered and assigned barrack apartments at this War Relocation Authority center.

The Hirano Family, left to right, George, Hisa, and Yasbei with picture of a United States serviceman. Colorado River Relocation Center, Poston, Arizona.

High School Campus at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Classes are housed in tarpaper-covered, barrack-style buildings originally designed as living quarters for the evacuees.

Poster Crew at Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. The poster crew turns out fire and safety posters, announcements for public gatherings and dances, and some general instructions.

Court Session at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. The court is composed of seven judges selected from the residents and appointed by the project director. They preside over infractions of center regulations and ordinary civil court cases.

Coal Crew at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. It takes approximately four carloads of coal a day to provide heat for residents at this Wyoming relocation center during the cold winter months. Here a crew of men load trucks from the coal gondola for delivery to barracks.

Collection of the Manuscripts and University Archives Division of the University of Washington Libraries.

Howard Clifford Photographs. Clifford was a news photographer with the Tacoma News Tribune. These photographs are available in Special Collections and Preservation Division.

Constructing Camp Harmony, UW11315
Constructing Camp Harmony, UW11316
Soldier carrying luggage, UW11318
A corsage-making class, UW11336
Young couple on train, UW525
Family in camp "apartment," UW526
Waiting for the bus, UW538
Waiting for the bus, UW544
Saying goodbyes, UW562
In the mess hall, UW6913
Registration, UW8676
Three women on train, UW9449
Soldier and child, UW 9685

Museum of History and Industry Photographs.  The photographs are part of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer collection at the UW museum.

Japanese-Americans surrendering cameras and radios, PI-28030
Evacuation registration, PI-28034
Bainbridge Island evacuees boarding ferry under army guard, PI-28053
Japanese American women at ferry window, PI-28056
Bainbridge Island evacuees walking to train, PI-28058
Japanese American women packing dolls and dishes in storage crate, PI-28064
Jackson Street block showing vacant stores after evacuation, PI-28068
Group waving as bus departs, PI-28080
View of wet street in camp
Playing monopoly
Fixing stove
Newlywed in camp "apartment"
Food line
Street in camp
Mess hall scene
Line of cooks
Camp garden
Laundry
Mother and child
Playing piano
Waiting in the mess line
Playing ping pong

Additional War Relocation Authority photographs of other camps

Awaiting buses to Manzanar, April 1941.  Photograph by Clem Albers.
Basketball game at Manzanar, February 1943.  Photograph by Francis Stewart.
Man in barracks, April 1942.  Photograph by Clem Albers.
Grandfather and grandson, n.d.  Photograph by Dorothea Lange.

Photographs from the book Executive Order 9066, published by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center

Photographs by Dorothea Languye from the American Memory Collectionof the Library of Congress

Access the search engine of the American Memory Collection and type "Japanese American Camp"

The Bancroft Library Pictorial Collection, U.C. Berkeley



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