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img Exclusion order posted on telephone pole (ddr-densho-151-315)

Original caption: Sacramento, California. Scene in residential section of the Japanese quarter two days prior to evacuation. Note Civilian Exclusion Order posted on the telephone pole. Note also crated furniture on porch of corner house.

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img Japanese Americans boarding bus (ddr-densho-151-149)

Original caption: Byron, California. The moment has come for these farm families of Japanese ancestry to board the bus that will take them from their homes and ranches to the Assembly center, 65 miles away.

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img Japanese Americans boarding buses (ddr-densho-151-143)

Original caption: Byron, California. Farm families of Japanese ancestry boarding buses for Turlock Assembly center 65 miles away. An official of the Wartime Civil Control Administration is checking the families into the bus by number.

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img Japanese American family with baggage (ddr-densho-151-289)

Original caption: Woodland, California. Families of Japanese ancestry with their baggage at railroad station awaiting arrival of special train which will take them from their home town to the Merced Assembly center, 125 miles away.

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img Japanese Americans clearing land (ddr-densho-151-37)

Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. More land is being cleared of sage brush at the southern end of the project to enlarge this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

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img Japanese Americans arriving at Tanforan (ddr-densho-151-155)

Original caption: San Bruno, California. Family of Japanese ancestry arrives at assembly center at Tanforan Race track. Evacuees will be transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers where they will be housed for the duration.

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img Japanese Americans playing in stream (ddr-densho-151-473)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry enjoying a hot summer afternoon at this War Relocation Authority center. This mountain stream flows through the desert on the border of the Center.

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img Japanese Americans boarding bus (ddr-densho-151-147)

Original caption: Byron, California. The moment has come for these farm families of Japanese ancestry to board the bus that will take them from their homes and ranches to the Assembly center, 65 miles away.

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img Last laundry drying in sun before mass removal (ddr-densho-151-178)

Original caption: San Lorenzo, California. Washday 48 hours before evacuation of persons of Japanese ancestry from this farming community in Santa Clara County. Evacuees will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

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img Japanese Americans boarding bus (ddr-densho-151-142)

Original caption: Byron, California. Farm families of Japanese ancestry boarding buses for Turlock Assembly Center 65 miles away. An official of the Wartime Civil Control Administration is checking the families into the bus by number.

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img Japanese Americans arriving at Tanforan (ddr-densho-151-159)

Original caption: San Bruno, California. Families of Japanese ancestry arrive at assembly center at Tanforan Race Track. Evacuees will be transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers where they will be housed for the duration.

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img Japanese Americans boarding bus (ddr-densho-151-260)

Original caption: San Francisco, California. One more busload about to depart from the Japanese quarter of San Francisco to the Tanforan Assembly center. The Japanese onlookers will themselves have been evacuated within a few days.

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img Japanese Americans arriving at Tanforan (ddr-densho-151-160)

Original caption: San Bruno, California. Family of Japanese ancestry arrives at assembly center at Tanforan Race Track. Evacuees will be transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers where they will be housed for the duration.

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img Japanese American workers prior to mass removal (ddr-densho-151-90)

Original caption: Stockton, California. Cutting potato seed on an industrialized farm where, before evacuation, all work was done by persons of Japanese ancestry. Evacuees will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

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img Japanese American family arriving at Tanforan (ddr-densho-151-154)

Original caption: San Bruno, California. Family of Japanese ancestry arrives at assembly center at Tanforan Race track. Evacuees will be transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers where they will be housed for the duration.

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img Japanese Americans waiting in line for inoculations (ddr-densho-151-131)

Original caption: San Francisco, California. Waiting in line, 2031 Bush Street, for voluntary inoculation against typhoid, preceding evacuation of residents of Japanese ancestry. Evacuees will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

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img Japanese Americans making camouflage nets (ddr-densho-151-55)

Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Making camouflage nets for the War Department. This is one of several War and Navy Department projects carried on by persons of Japanese ancestry in relocation centers.

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img Japanese American family arriving at Tanforan (ddr-densho-151-156)

Original caption: San Bruno, California. Family of Japanese ancestry arrives at assembly center at Tanforan Race Track. Evacuees will be transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers where they will be housed for the duration.

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img Japanese Americans arriving at Tanforan (ddr-densho-151-161)

Original caption: San Bruno, California. Families of Japanese ancestry arrive at assembly center at Tanforan Race Track. Evacuees will be transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers where they will be housed for the duration.

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img Young Japanese American during mass removal (ddr-densho-151-40)

Original WRA caption: Hayward, California. A young evacuee looks out the window of the evacuation bus before it starts for Tanforan Assembly Center. Evacuees will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

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vh Akio Suyematsu Interview (ddr-densho-1001-16)

Nisei male. Born October 30, 1921, in Bainbridge Island, Washington. Removed to Manzanar concentration camp, California, and was drafted into the U.S. army. Returned to Bainbridge Island after the war and established a successful farm.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1001-16/

av Howe Hanamura and Wendy Hanamura at Min Nakayama Court, and interview with Howe Hanamura (ddr-ajah-6-312)

B-roll of Howe Hanamura and Wendy Hanamura at Min Nakayama Court in Alameda, California. Interview with Howe Hanamura about the death of Min Nakayama. Part of the 1995 documentary Honor Bound: A Personal Journey.

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