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Mitsu, Margaret, Jane and Roy Nakai and baby, Manzanar Relocation Center

The photograph depicts the Nakai family in their living quarters from within the Manzanar Relocation Center. The photograph shows two women as well as three younger children, the photograph being one of many families whom found themselves placed into…

Tags: 20th century, Ansel Adams, Art, California, Children, Discrimination, Family, Japanese American, Japanese Immigration, Japanese Internment, Japanese Internment Camp, Mandatory evacuation, Manzanar Relocation Center, Photograph, Protest, Racism, Relocation, Women

Barracks To House Evacuated Japanese

The photograph depicts builders working on a Barracks block in preparation to build the huge center at Manzanar. The photograph has an attaching caption noting that the barrack block in the photograph as being only one of what would be 350 barrack…

Tags: 20th century, California, construction, Discrimination, evacuation, Japanese American, Japanese Immigration, Japanese Internment, Japanese Internment Camps, Mandatory evacuation, Manzanar Relocation Center, Photograph, Racial Tensions, Racism, Second World War, So Cal, Southern California, WW2

Japanese Store, Honolulu

A photograph depicting a Japanese family in and around their store in Honolulu. The subjects are pictured in a mix of traditional and non-traditional clothing, and there is a sign in Japanese over the store. The image looks posed, as everyone is…

Tags: 19th century, Asian, Culture, East-Asian, Hawaii, Honolulu, Immigrant, Immigration, Japanese, Japanese Immigrant, Japanese Immigration, Photograph, Postcard

Short-Term leave Authorization, WRA

This source is a written authorization of leave written by the WRA (War Relocation Authority). The WRA was the agency tasked with handling the internment of people of Japanese Ancestry during the Second World War. The paper states that a ‘Thomas…

Tags: 20th century, California, Discrimination, Japanese Ancestry, Japanese Immigration, Japanese Internment, Japanese Internment Camps, Leave Form, Manzanar Relocation Center, Racial Tensions, Racism, Second World War, Thomas Michibiku Ozamoto, War Relocation Authority, Western Defence Command, WW2

"We’re hoping to become Americans too”

This is an image in a newspaper of a group of Japanese people who were seeking American citizenship by entering Hawai’i. This was the hope of many Asian individuals who were seeking citizenship into the United States, even if the likelihood is that…

Tags: 20th century, Asiatic Exclusion League, Assimilation, Cartoon, Hawai’i, Hawaii, Illustration, Integration, Japan, Japanese Immigration, Migration

Barrack 9, Apt. 6, San Bruno, CA

This is an unframed, sketched painting depicting the new living quarters in which the Hibi family are living in at the Tanforan Assembly Center. The painting depicts several barracks which were the housing for the Japanese people within the…

Tags: 20th century, Art, Barracks, California, Discrimination, evacuation, Japanese American, Japanese Immigration, Japanese Internment, Japanese Internment Camps, Mandatory evacuation, Painting, Racial Tensions, Racism, San Bruno, Second World War, Tanforan Assembly Center, WW2

“To All Persons of Japanese Ancestry”

This is a poster that details the mandatory evacuation to any Japanese people living within a section of the City of San Francisco. It states that the instructions stated on the poster apply to both alien and non-alien people of Japanese ancestry,…

Tags: 20th century, California, Discrimination, Japanes Ancestry, Japanese Internment Camps, Japanese American, Japanese evacuation, Japanese Immigrant, Japanese Immigration, Japanese Internment, non-alien, poster, San Francisco, Second World War, State instructions, The Civil Control Station, WW2

Japanese Canadian men being relocated in British Columbia

The source is a black and white photograph of Japanese Canadian men being relocated in British Columbia.

The picture shows a group of males getting on board a train along with a women and child.

The photograph was taken in 1942 during the…

Tags: 20th century, Asian experience, British Columbia, Discrimination, Japanese, Japanese Internment Camps, Japanese Immigrant, Japanese Immigration, Photograph, Political Discrimination, Race Relations, Racial Tensions, Railway, Second World War

Their Best Way to Show Loyalty: An Editorial

A transcript of an editorial piece published by The San Francisco News noting that Japanese people and people with Japanese Ancestry voluntarily evacuating and being relocated is the way to show their loyalty to the state. Notes that people have been…

Tags: 20th century, California, evacuation, Japanese Internment Camps, Japanese American, Japanese Immigration, Japanese Internment, Loyalty, Mandatory evacuation, National Security, Newspaper, Propaganda, San Francisco, Second World War, The San Francisco News, WW2

Waiting for the Signal From Home

The Cartoon is titled “Waiting for the Signal From Home” and it shows thousands of Japanese people who are all stereotyped marching from Washington, through Oregon and to California to pick up blocks of explosives from a small shed named “Honorable…

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