JAPANESE AMERICANS IN WORLD WAR II PHOTOGRAPHS


These photographs were published by Documentary Photo Aids, Mount Dora, FL, in its series "Relocation of Japanese-Americans."

JA-f1 Grocery store with the sign "I am an American" placed on its front on December 8, 1941. The owner was a University of California graduate of Japanese descent.
JA-f2 Barbershop door in Parker, AZ, with sign "Japs Keep Out You Rats"
JA-f3 Fronts of two businesses owned by Japanese Americans forced to close after issuance of Executive Order 9066.
JA-f4 Signs announcing evacuation sale.
JA-f5 Trucks preparing to transport "hand luggage" to assigned assembly centers, 1942.
JA-f6 Mochida family ready to board a bus to an assembly center, Hayward, CA, May 8, 1942.
JA-f7 A grandfather and his grandchildren waiting to be interned, Hayward, CA, May 8, 1942.
JA-f8 An Issei and a Nisei at Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, CA, July 2, 1942.
JA-f9 Japanese Americans being evacuated by train.
JA-f10 Japanese Americans boarding ship to return to Japan, Seattle, WA, November 24, 1945.
JA-f11 Nisei girl looking over the baggage of two families at a camp.
JA-f12 Manzanar Relocation Center, July 1942.
JA-f13 Two photos of Nisei servicemen. Top: Furloughed soldier with his mother in strawberry field, Florin, CA, 1942. Bottom: Soldier visiting his parents at Minidoka Relocation Center.
JA-f14 G.S. Hantf, a barber in Kent, WA, who opposed the return of the internees to their homes after the war, March 2, 1944. Photo shows him pointing to a sign "We don't want any Japs back here--ever!"
JA-f15 Sign in field at a relocation center: "Stop - Area limits for persons of Japanese ancestry residing in this relocation center. Sentry on duty".

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