Family leaving home on day of mass removal
PARTNER
Densho
Visit partner
OBJECT ID
ddr-densho-151-182 (Legacy UID: denshopd-i151-00182)
PARENT COLLECTION
DESCRIPTION
Original caption: Centerville, California. Members of farming families are pictured as they left for Centerville, one mile away, to board evacuation bus. These women worked at so-called "stoop labor", chiefly cultivating tomatoes. Farmers and other evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be given opportunities to follow their callings at War Relocation Authority centers where they will spend the duration.
DATE
9-May-42
LOCATION
OBJECT GENRE
Photographs
OBJECT FORMAT
Still Image
FACILITY
CREATORS
- Lange, Dorothea (photographer)
PERSONS/ORGANIZATIONS
CONTRIBUTOR
Densho
PREFERRED CITATION
Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration
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