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"Help wanted" sign

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OBJECT ID

ddr-densho-151-229 (Legacy UID: denshopd-i151-00229)

PARENT COLLECTION

Dorothea Lange Collection

DESCRIPTION

Original caption: San Bruno, California. "Help Wanted" sign displayed for newly arrived evacuees. There was much work to be done since the center was opened on the previous day. Three weeks later there were 8,000 persons of Japanese ancestry in this center.

DATE

29-Apr-42

LOCATION

Tanforan Assembly Center, 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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This work is free of known copyright restrictions.

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