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Issei woman and children awaiting mass removal

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OBJECT ID

ddr-densho-151-113 (Legacy UID: denshopd-i151-00113)

PARENT COLLECTION

Dorothea Lange Collection

DESCRIPTION

Original caption: San Francisco, California. Japanese mother, wife of interned Shinto priest with youngest of her nine children who are American born. She has been in in the United States ten years and does not speak English. Within a few days residents of Japanese ancestry will be evacuated to assembly centers and later transferred to War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

DATE

25-Apr-42

LOCATION

San Francisco, California

OBJECT GENRE

Photographs

OBJECT FORMAT

Still Image

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CONTRIBUTOR

Densho

PREFERRED CITATION

Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration

RIGHTS

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