Salinas, Calif. Apr. 1942. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry from certain West Coast areas, seated in family groups at the armory ready to go to the assembly center from which they will be transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers for the duration
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Salinas, Calif. Apr. 1942. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry from certain West Coast areas, seated in family groups at the armory ready to go to the assembly center from which they will be transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war
[1 April 1942]
1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; mount 24 x 30 cm.
Notes:
Photograph shows an unidentified white woman speaking to a group of unidentified Japanese Americans before being forcibly removed to Salinas Assembly Center, a makeshirt detention facility and race track, where they were incarcerated before being transferred to a concentration camp, probably Poston, during World War II.
Title transcribed from item.
No. A-246.
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.
Salinas Assembly Center (Salinas, Calif.)--1940-1950.
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans--California--Salinas.
Japanese Americans--Men--1940-1950.
Japanese Americans--Women--1940-1950.
Political prisoners--1940-1950.
Families--1940-1950.
Arrivals & departures--1940-1950.
Whites--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.74351
Call Number: LOT 1801 [item]
Source: Flickr Commons
Views: 7656
Salinas, Calif. Apr. 1942. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry from certain West Coast areas, seated in family groups at the armory ready to go to the assembly center from which they will be transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war
[1 April 1942]
1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; mount 24 x 30 cm.
Notes:
Photograph shows an unidentified white woman speaking to a group of unidentified Japanese Americans before being forcibly removed to Salinas Assembly Center, a makeshirt detention facility and race track, where they were incarcerated before being transferred to a concentration camp, probably Poston, during World War II.
Title transcribed from item.
No. A-246.
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.
Salinas Assembly Center (Salinas, Calif.)--1940-1950.
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans--California--Salinas.
Japanese Americans--Men--1940-1950.
Japanese Americans--Women--1940-1950.
Political prisoners--1940-1950.
Families--1940-1950.
Arrivals & departures--1940-1950.
Whites--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.74351
Call Number: LOT 1801 [item]
Info:
Owner: The Library of CongressSource: Flickr Commons
Views: 7656