Sharp Camp following the evacuation order for persons of Japanese ancestry

Sharp Camp following the evacuation order for persons of Japanese ancestry

California
Japanese Internment
Mandatory evacuation

The photograph depicts Aliens at Sharp Camp, California following the evacuation order for people of Japanese ancestry. The camp seen in the photograph was set up to serve as a detention centre were people were given hearings. The Japanese people would then remain here for a small time being sent to either a relocation center or to an internment camp. “Aliens” refers to Japanese people or the family specifically; this shows the stigma associated with the people contained in the photograph.

War Relocation Authority Staff, photographer unknown.

Online Archive of California, Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945—Photographs, Photograph located at

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft9n39p35m/?brand=oac4

30 March 1942

Michael Wilsher

War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945, BANC PIC 1967.014--PIC, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

English

Visual - photograph

20th century California