PARTNER

OBJECT ID

ddr-densho-151-77 (Legacy UID: denshopd-i151-00077)

PARENT COLLECTION

Dorothea Lange Collection

DESCRIPTION

Original WRA caption: San Francisco, California. On a brick wall beside air raid shelter poster, exclusion orders were posted at First and Front Streets directing removal of persons of Japanese ancestry from first San Francisco section to be affected by evacuation. The order was issued April 1, 1942, by Lieutenant General J.L. DeWitt, and directed evacuation from this section by noon on April 7, 1942.

CONTRIBUTOR

Densho

PREFERRED CITATION

Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration

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