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img Mike Masaoka with friends prior to mass removal (ddr-densho-151-129)

Original caption: San Francisco, California. Mike Masaoka (second from left), national secretary and field executive of Japanese American Citizens League, and a group of friends chat before evacuation of residents of Japanese ancestry. Evacuees will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

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img Issei man waiting to register for mass removal (ddr-densho-151-238)

Original caption: Byron, California. Toshi Mizoguchi waiting at the Wartime Civil Control Administration station to register for evacuation. Mr. Mizoguchi came to the United States from Japan in 1892 and has been a farm laborer on California ranches since that time. He is unmarried. He is seen wearing an American flag on a celluloid button.

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img Father and son in front of store (ddr-densho-151-272)

Original caption: San Francisco, California. Dave Tatsuno and his father, merchants of Japanese ancestry in San Francisco prior to evacuation.

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img Japanese American working in garden (ddr-densho-151-425)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. William Katsuki, former professional landscape gardener for large estates in Southern California, demonstrates his skill and ingenuity in creating from materials close at hand, a desert garden alongside his home in the barracks at this War Relocation Authority center.

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img Farewell letter posted in Chinatown restaurant (ddr-densho-151-117)

Original caption: San Francisco, California. Farewell letter posted in show window of T.Z. Shiota, importer in San Francisco's Chinatown, prior to evacuation of residents of Japanese ancestry. Evacuees will be housed at War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

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img Nisei girl with baggage (ddr-densho-151-326)

Original caption: Oakland, California. Kimiko Kitagaki, young evacuee guarding the family baggage prior to departure by bus in one half hour to Tanforan Assembly center. Her father was, until evacuation, in the cleaning and dyeing business.

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img Field crew foreman (ddr-densho-151-390)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Johnny Fukazawa, foreman of fields Numbers 3, 4, 5, and 6, heading a 20-man field crew on the farm project, says there are many problems they have to solve in their agricultural work at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

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img Signed portrait of Alvin Ailey (ddr-densho-367-141)

Alvin Ailey signed a photograph for Mary Mon Toy when they both performed in "House of Flowers."

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img Panorama of large group of people posing outside building (ddr-ajah-3-180)

Inscription on front in Japanese. Caption below photo: Buddhist Temple of Alameda 30th anniversary / October 17, 1935 / Front row: Rev. Joshin Motoyoshi 1932-1948 / Photo taken by Tsuji Photo Studio (of Oakland, CA.)

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img Group of mostly young women posing for photo outside building (ddr-ajah-3-173)

Caption below photo: 1928 Buddhist Temple of Alameda, Bay District Young Women's Buddhist Association (YMBA). Might be Rev. Clark at left, seated next to Rev. Shojun Taguchi (1928-1932) in the front row.

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img Panorama of large group of people posing outside building with banner: Y.M.B.A. Leave of North America (ddr-ajah-3-181)

Inscription on front of photo: N.A.Y.M.B.A Decennial Convention / Alameda Buddhist Temple / April 10, 11 & 12, 1936. Caption below photo: Front row Rev. Joshin Motoyoshi 1932 to 1948

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img Family portrait (ddr-ajah-3-174)

Caption below photo: 1928 Rev. Koryu and Sorano Iino and family. They returned to Japan on September 12, 1928. Buddhist Temple of Alameda, CA.

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